Get your free ticket for the May meeting of the SHORTER IS BETTER bookclub!
I’ll be teaching a workshop called Creating with Hybrid Forms at the Spokane Writers’ Conference!
5/29, 1pm EST / 10am PST
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* LIMITED TO 10 WRITERS
Do I read my piece in hex or my piece in HAD or SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT???
I’m co-teaching the Hermit Crab Flash Fiction Workshop/LOVE Edition with Cheryl Pappas!
This month we're hosting Oregon-based poet Shagufta Mulla, Washington-based poet Kelli Russell Agodon, and Walla Walla, Washington-based fiction writer Wendy Oleson. Won't you come and hear a taste of their talent on Zoom?
Split Rock Review celebrates nine years of publishing literature and art that centers on place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Four featured authors published by Split Rock Review will read and discuss how their work explores place and complicates the traditions of nature poetry in the Anthropocene. Crystal S. Gibbins, founder and editor of Split Rock Review, will introduce and moderate. A brief Q&A session will follow the reading.
#AWP21 is online! If you find yourself registered for this pandemic version of the conference, drop in and join us!
This cross-genre discussion explores how animal and plant metaphors are deployed to constrain women in literary texts. Metaphors can shore up power for those who already have it, reifying the boundary between the rational/civilized/human/(male) and the irrational/wild/animal or plant/(female). We'll spotlight the women writers who reject toxic metaphors that construct hierarchical binaries, instead composing texts celebrating their animal selves, their intricate roots, and sun-reaching stalks
On behalf of Split Lip Magazine, I’m doing ten-minute editorial consults for Barrelhouse’s virtual Conversations & Connections Conference!
Poetry Reading, Conference, Discussion
Saturday, March 7, 2020
10:35 AM 11:50 AM
AWP Conference (map)
New Nature: Rewriting Place in the Anthropocene
Split Rock Review celebrates eight years of publishing literature and art that centers on place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Four featured authors published by Split Rock Review will read and discuss how their work explores place and complicates the traditions of nature poetry in the Anthropocene. A Q&A session will follow the reading.
Presenters: Jen Karetnick, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Rachel Morgan, Wendy Oleson
Organizer/Moderator: Crystal S. Gibbins
Location: Room 006D, Henry B. González Convention Center
For more information about the 2020 AWP Conference, visit AWP.
(Kate McIntyre, Anne Barngrover, Trudy Lewis, Leanna Petronella, and Wendy Oleson)
From the surrealist provocation of Leonora Carrington’s hyena to Marianne Moore’s prickly array of creatures to the minutely observed weasels of Annie Dillard or the strange symbiosis of insect-like aliens and humans in Octavia Butler, women writers have long been probing the intricacies of human-animal relations. Five women writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction discuss the pressing need for more animals on the page in these times of ecological crisis, the role of animals in their own work, and why the inclusion of animal and nonhuman characters in creative works can be viewed as a feminist act.
I’m giving a free writing workshop for Lambda Lit Fest!
This generative workshop will embrace the queerness of hybrid forms and pair it with hyper-attention to sensory detail. Guided by the workshop facilitator, attendees will encounter/read/discuss short pieces of hybrid work by LGBTQPOC authors before experimenting and playing with writing prompts in order to create hybrid works of their own. The workshop will end with an opportunity for attendees to share their newly-generated work.
In August, I’ll be reading with Mugabi Byenka, Dale Corvino, and Aaron Hamburger at #OutWrite2019 !
Join us as we celebrate new releases by Sarah A. Chavez (Hands That Break & Scar) and Wendy Oleson (Please Find Us). They will read from and sign copies of their work.
Join Gertrude literary journal in celebrating 21 years bringing queer lit and art into your lives, with readings from American Book Award winner and NEA and Guggenheim grant fellow, Jericho Brown, internationally recognized performance artist, visual artist, and writer Wayne Bund, and award-winning poet and scholar Arisa White, alongside our chapbook winners, Wendy Oleson and Angie Sijun Lou!
