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 In Subtle Intricacies , Swarnim Agrawal reflects on what it means to write about mental health in a time when its language is widely circulated, commodified, and often simplified. Partly inspired by personal experience, the collection resists clinical coldness and instead dwells in the intimate textures of everyday life - fleeting moods, quiet insecurities, relational fractures, and moments of becoming. These poems explore how ordinary experiences carry emotional weight long before they acquire diagnostic names. Through subtle tonal shifts and lyrical vulnerability, the collection seeks conversation over categorisation, offering readers companionship, recognition, and an expanded vocabulary for mental health and human connection. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Swarnim is currently pursuing her PhD at the Amity Institute of English Studies and Research. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Exeter. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she performs at open m...

  TRAMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  "FICTION AND TOURISM" - Call for papers The cultural and tourism industries are experiencing an increasing convergence of interests. Tourism managers are turning to fictional content as an ally in the promotion of their destination and its cultural and natural heritage. The capacity of television series, films, literature, and video games to induce tourism is informing destination marketing strategies. The interest in the imaginaries created by popular fiction can help both to deseasonalize or redirect visitor flows and to put destinations that previously attracted little attention on the tourist map. Topics The relationship between fiction and tourism is a very active field of research. With this in mind, the second edition of the TRAMA Conference, under the title “Fiction and Tourism,” invites researchers to submit papers of an analytical, theoretical, or methodological nature that address any of the following topics : Effects of fiction on...

Dialogue Journaling Process Dialogue Journaling is a process for travel writing in tourism projects. It is inline with the United Nations UNWTO Agenda 2030 for stakeholder engagement. Dialogue Journaling was developed in 2022 for the textbook: Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding .  Simply click on the image to view the free resources on Google Drive Free Resources to Download for Writers These free resources are to help you implement Dialogue Journaling into your teaching and into your destination development projects with stakeholders. The processual method is described in full in chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook linked below. This page shows the suggested layout of 3 folders for each of your writing projects. Within these folders keep your individual documents. The template is in MS OneNote and in Google Docs. Please click book cover to view on Amazon Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding provides tourism students with a practice-based approach to producing resea...

AMSTERDAM This project was to design and deliver a Guided Walk in a new area of Amsterdam. The location chosen starts on Waterlooplein because it has a tram and bus link close to a major visitor site, the Stopera Opera House & Town Hall. The walk route uses my ellipse concept with six plateaux or points of interest. The route returns you to where you started from so that you can easily find public transport again. Share on Instagram as #spinozawalk  To Cite: Mansfield, C. (2019) Commentary Script for a Guided Walk in Amsterdam with 6 Stops from Stopera via Waterlooplein to Arcam and back on an Elliptical Tour. Amsterdam DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36556.16004  You can chose to follow the guided walk route in one of three ways: "Said, Led or Read".  A) Said - will use the 6 audio files shown in the Google Drive frame below on this web-page. They are numbered 1 to 6 to help you find the correct one at each stop, or plateau, as I call them. To avoid roaming charges on your 'ph...

Resources for Writers We are pleased to provided these resources for the Summer School of Good Stories: Literary, Film and Wine Tourism, organised by the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism in cooperation with 'The University of Zadar, Department of Applied Communication Studies, and held in Brežice, Slovenia. Please click button above to access the resources on Google Drive Blended Intensive Programme The Summer School is designed as a blended intensive programme (BIP) and focuses on storytelling as a key tool in contemporary tourism, with particular attention to literary, film and wine tourism. It brings together academic perspectives, practical workshops and field-based experiences, while encouraging international cooperation and co-creation. The physical part of the programme will take place at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism in Brežice from 23 August to 29 August 2026. The virtual component will be held on 20th August and on 31 August 2026. Please click on ...