Reading Event, July 27, 2024
MAGGIE NYE
& KENDALL PAKULA
Saturday, July 27 6:00-8:00 PM @ WhiteSpace Gallery
Lostintheletters is thrilled to celebrate Maggie Nye's debut novel The Curators (Nortwestern University Press, 2024) with readings from Maggie Nye and Kendall Pakula!
More about the featured authors:
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.
Kendall Pakula is a poet and Content Strategist based in Atlanta, GA. Her work has been featured in burntdistrict, Blue Lyra Review, Folklore Review, and Crosswinds Poetry Journal. She is one of three winning poets in the 2024 Crosswinds Poetry Contest.
WORKSHOP, July 27, 2024
Needful Voices:
Experiments in Writing the Collective
a workshop with Maggie Nye
Saturday, July 27 1:00-3:00 PM @ Art Papers Office
Reserve Sliding Scale Tickets Here
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.
