Needful Voices:

Experiments in Writing the Collective

a workshop with Maggie Nye

Saturday, July 27 1:00-3:00 PM @ Art Papers Office

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About the workshop:

Narrative perspective constructs the way we see a story. Changes in perspective can create sympathy, animus, shift blame, open pathways toward new understandings or complicate our existing understandings, and offer viewpoints (high, low, internal, external, other, nonhuman, and multiple) we rarely—or perhaps never—consider.

In this generative workshop, we’ll focus on the multiple. We will consider the capacities of writing from within the we. This narrative form is especially useful for rendering the dismissed desires of disempowered or overlooked bodies loud and gushing. But it is also a perspective of inherent vulnerability because the individual cedes control to the many.

In this workshop, we will read, dissect, construct, speak (write), and amplify the voices of collective desire.

About Maggie Nye:

Maggie Nye is an author, teacher, and editor living in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and nonfiction editor at Southeast Review. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, and the St. Albans School Writer in Residence program. Her writing interests include: adaptation, myth, ritual, girlhood, body horror, race and otherness, language-magic, and monstrosity. Her debut novel, The Curators (Northwestern University Press), involves a golem, a girl gang, and a dark chapter in Atlanta’s history.