Creative Conversations: Akshi Singh
Monday 3 November, 2025 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Free event – Register at Eventbrite
Writer Akshi Singh, author of In Defence of Leisure, in conversation about her work.
This week’s Creative Conversations guest is Akshi Singh, who is an associate editor atParapraxis and deputy editor atCritical Quarterly, and is the editor of a special collection of Critical Quarterlypresenting new writing on Marion Milner. She collaborates regularly with the Derek Jarman lab, and writes for theLondon Review of Books. Singh moved to the UK from India to study for a PhD in psychoanalysis and literature with Jacqueline Rose. She is currently training to be a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.
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