{"product_id":"launch-the-writer-by-the-november-collective","title":"LAUNCH: The Writer by The November Collective","description":"\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;\"\u003e29th of May 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;\"\u003e6.30 to 9pm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;\"\u003eJoin us to celebrate the launch of our new Anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe Writer \u003c\/i\u003eby the November Collective.  Our contributors will be reading from their work and the anthology will be for sale. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;\"\u003e‘I have retired to write my masterpiece. I am a great writer. No one knows it yet, because I haven’t written anything…’ and so begins Ágota Kristóf’s wry short fiction about that most familiar of issues to every aspiring author: the issue of struggling to write. Using Kristóf’s story as a prompt, the November Collective have created an anthology that spans a breadth of feelings, failures and fantasies surrounding the act and process of writing. Anxieties over authorship and authorial longevity, the dynamics between teacher and student, the frustration of not being able to put pen to paper, the small joys and self-reflexive stories around the ritual of preparing to write and the writing process itself, and the desire to pin down furtive ideas and fleeting images are all captured in this daringly eclectic and experimental collection. Allowing Kristóf’s fiction to be a doorway into the creative possibilities of the seemingly impossible sense of writer’s block, each contributor has carefully written into and beyond the difficulties of writing itself. In expansive and evocative prose, the Collective explores the power and erotic allure not only of the figure of ‘the great writer’, but of language itself.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eBringing together contributions from Sara Thorsen, Sarah Carson, Lu Rose Cunningham, Eva Gold, Denise Rose Hansen, Poppy Jean, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Forest Greenway and Jeff Ko, \u003ci\u003eThe Writer\u003c\/i\u003e opens the reader to the manifold experiences of what it is and means to attempt to write today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; color: #7030a0;\"\u003eAbout the November Collective\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;\"\u003eThe November Collective is a writing group created by founding members Eva Gold, Jeff Ko, Denise Rose Hansen and Sara Thorsen. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; color: #7030a0;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; color: #7030a0;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; color: #7030a0;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; color: #7030a0;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burley Fisher Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57216675840377,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/3385\/2310\/files\/CoverScan.jpg?v=1777982528","url":"https:\/\/burleyfisherbooks.com\/products\/launch-the-writer-by-the-november-collective","provider":"Burley Fisher Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}