{"id":1007,"date":"2012-10-24T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2012-10-24T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:45:12","slug":"biopunk-comes-to-the-durham-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"BioPunk comes to the Durham Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biopunk-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biopunk-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BioPunk cover\" width=\"358\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1009\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biopunk-cover.jpg 358w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biopunk-cover-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Saturday 27 October, 2012 I\u2019ll be reading from and discussing &#8220;The Wrestler&#8221;, one of the stories that make up <a href=\"\/\/www.commapress.co.uk\/?section=books&amp;page=BioPunk\u201d\">Bio-Punk: stories from the far side of research<\/a>. It\u2019s a new anthology edited by Ra Page of Comma Press, pairing up writers and scientists. (Dr Ian Vincent McGonigle was my collaborator on &#8220;The Wrestler&#8221;: he\u2019s currently studying Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago, with research interests in bioethics, epistemology, ethno-pharmacology and medical anthropology.)<br \/>\nOther writers in the anthology include Toby Litt, Sara Maitland, Adam Marek, Justina Robson, Jane Rogers and Dilys Rose.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, Dilys and her collaborator Dr Jane Haley will be with me at Durham Town Hall at 2pm to launch the book with readings and discussion. Thanks to Waterstones Newcastle for their support, and the long-suffering Rebecca Wilkie of New Writing North for finding me the correct train ticket. (I was LOST, I tell, you LOST, the Interwebs had BROKEN\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 27 October, 2012 I\u2019ll be reading from and discussing &#8220;The Wrestler&#8221;, one of the stories that make up Bio-Punk: stories from the far side of research. It\u2019s a new anthology edited by Ra Page of Comma Press, pairing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1007\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[128,141,152,155,170,171,250,265,309],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-anthology","tag-biopunk","tag-collaboration","tag-comma-press","tag-durham","tag-durham-literary-festival","tag-ra-page","tag-short-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}