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
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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.
Joyelle McSweeney Reading and Workshop
Saturday, April 6, 1:00-3:00 PM EST
Hyperdiction: A Generative Writing Workshop with Joyelle McSweeney
@ Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
About the workshop:
Let’s investigate the premise and promise of hyperdiction, an intensive use of language rife with political and aesthetic possibility. Hyperdiction is a vivid, viscous soundprint, an uncanny sonic ecology; it is an assemblage of the voices, sounds, dictions, languages, lingos, terminologies, and slangs a person encounters in their experience of life, art, dream, ghost, family, community, region, work, subculture, the state, studies, etc. Through guided writing and listening, participants will bring into audibility their own hyperdictions, then investigate the aesthetic and political possibilities of hyperdiction for dream terrains and ecologies, translation and performance, among other cosmic and lyric endeavors.
About Joyelle McSweeney:
Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of the recently released Death Styles (Nightboat, 2024), as well as nine other books of poetry, drama, fiction, criticism and translation, including The Necropastoral, an influential work of goth ecopoetics. McSweeney's previous title, Toxicon and Arachne,was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and won the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. A co-founder of the international press Action Books, McSweeney teaches at Notre Dame, and lives in South Bend, Indiana.
