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August 2024: Recipient 047, Noor-e-Sehar Ali

The 47th recipient of the Creatives Grant is Noor-e-Sehar Ali. I first met Noor a couple of years ago when she was a Writer in Residence at Magnum Photos. I read The Shape of a Circle and it immediately made my entire brain light up – it was new, exciting, singular and creative. It was like she was handling a concept itself, in the abstract but never losing the essence of the thing she was trying to nail down. So deft and nimble, so skillful it made me feel real admiration, a feeling i want to hold on to when I stumble upon it. It was a pleasure to encounter her work again, catching up on everything I’d missed and feeling that exact same rush of enjoyment. Her work has moved between text and sound, fiction essay and radio, she has gone in all these interesting directions that I can’t help but be enthusiastic about. I am so glad we get to support her amazing work in this way, and I hope you find as much enjoyment in it as I do.

An update on how the grant has been funded, because grant 046 was the last recipient funded by Creative Debuts. We’re pleased to say we’ve secured funding for 4 more Creatives Grants, thanks to a donation from a reader called Nina! We’d like to sincerely thank Nina for her generosity and good timing. This grant is (imo) the best thing we do – we’re really glad it gets to continue, and her donation has enabled that so, just wanted to express our eternal gratitude.

BIO:

Noor-e-Sehar Ali is a writer, DJ and archival researcher based in London. She is part of artist-in-residence collective at Buckinghamshire Culture working with nationally prestigious archives: National Disability Arts Collection Archive (NDACA) & National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT), to develop creative responses to the archives to champion disability and neurodivergence in the arts alongside the Paralympic Movement.

Interested in the role of story-telling, particularly utopian narratives; her practice incorporates weaving text with sound. Ali’s writing is predicated upon a desire to transform the esoteric into accessible; informed by her on-going research in practical ethics and disability studies. Recipient of the first Magnum Photos Writers in Residence award, she began her writing career as a philosophy columnist at The Founder, co-edited The Work Experience Revolution and was writer-in-residence Colin Higginson’s exhibition In The Manner in Which it Appears in collaboration with Stroud Valleys Artspace.

Ali has led creative writing workshops at the Barbican, Copeland Gallery, SVA, and has been published by Hoax Publication, RIC Journal amongst others. Most recently she featured on the album ‘The light was sharp, our eyes were open’ by Pablo’s Eye, released on Belgian record label Stroom.tv. Alongside her debut novel LINDA, she’s working on a collection of short stories and essays narrated in dream-like soundscapes for radio as G830 and holds a monthly residency deejaying in SE LDN.

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