Jenn Ashworth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, and Fell. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
Ashworth in particular is almost frantic to find a kind of
container that isn't chronological but captures instead the
fluctuating, flickering, needle-jumping, train-derailing nature of
the traumatic. She experiments with broken and braided narratives,
modes for conveying the present tense of distress, the way it
ruptures time.—Olivia Laing, Guardian
Sometimes you read a book so unusual, so defying of genre, that
it's hard to know what to write about it. Something that is
experimental with language and format without ever losing its
tethering to the ground. All I can say is that Notes Made While
Falling (2019) is special, and reading was an extraordinary
experience.—Stuckinabook.com
Ashworth cuts through time and place, exploring the roots and
fallout of earlier trauma and an ongoing battle to shape her bloody
birth story into fiction.—Bookanista
I've zero appetite for traditional non-fiction these days, the
balanced, authoritative kind that aspires to inform and entertain.
The writers I want to devote brain time to take personal risks and
push at the edges of thought and experience while embracing
incompleteness, skew, wryness and wit. So it's thrilling that books
such as Jenn Ashworth's Notes Made While Falling (Goldsmiths Press)
– an intelligent hybrid of memoir and criticism that explores
afresh how we might process trauma – exist in the world.—NEW
STATESMAN
Ashworth's research is painstaking in the truest sense of the word.
It is exhaustive, scouring and interrogative. She draws deeply from
critical theory and examines writers experimenting with genre and
form while pushing the boundaries herself.—The List
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