Between the Lines

Come think with me about attention, writing, language, and the stories that make us who we are.

By Julia Bell

· Launched 7 months ago

Recent posts

• Curiosity as a Way of Life
  I’ve been teaching in Greece – on the island of Skyros, to be exact.
  Jun 12•Julia Bell

• Attention Practices #1
  This week I taught a workshop called ‘Writing Without Bannisters’, for a storytelling festival at King’s College, a riff on Hannah Arendt’s idea of…
  Jun 5•Julia Bell

• On Radical Attention
  An edited extract from my Inaugural Lecture, ‘On Radical Attention,’ given at Birkbeck, University of London, on 27 May 2026.
  May 29•Julia Bell

• Earwigging
  In a café last week I overheard two women in their early thirties talking about a friend.
  May 22•Julia Bell

• Process Not Product
  Perhaps one of the most confusing things about this current moment with the ‘rise’ of AI is that nothing is actually rising.
  May 15•Julia Bell

• Reading the Room
  On publication day.
  May 7•Julia Bell

• An Interesting Life
  The last time I saw her would have been on an INSET training day that I was leading in Aberaeron Yacht Club sometime in the early 2010s.
  Apr 28•Julia Bell

Between the Lines

Come think with me about attention, writing, language, and the stories that make us who we are.