Between co and solo writing: experimenting with constraint, composition, and community through writing 100s

Quinn, Katherine, Cornish, Benjamin and Orlek, Jonathan 2025. Between co and solo writing: experimenting with constraint, composition, and community through writing 100s. Culture and Organization 10.1080/14759551.2025.2449924 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

In this article, we describe what we’ve learned about writing through the development of our academic-creative writing group, a community initiated during the first lockdown of Spring 2020. Called The 100s, we adopted and adapted a format of writing popularised by the writer-theorists Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart in their publication, The Hundreds. Together, we share individually written creative reflections on everyday life and theory aloud and on a collaborative platform. As per the name, the wordcounts must be exact multiples of a 100: either 100 or multiple 100s, nothing in-between. With duration and regularity, our group’s development provoked reflection on the organised and organising proclivities of writing in academic environments. Here we expand on five insights precipitated by this solo-collective writing experiment for a more humane approach to academic production: embracing diverse writing rhythms; socialising writing; socialising reading; being deliberative with technology; experimenting with orality.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1475-9551
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	13 December 2024
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2025 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175560

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