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Cusp :: The Vibrant Space Between Fiction and Nonfiction :: A Webgasm
October 17, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$150WHAT: A three-hour online webgasm with Lidia Yuknavitch and at least one magical guest. (With a 15-minute intermission.)
WHEN: Sunday, October 17th, 1PM-4PM Pacific (4PM-7PM Eastern)
WHERE: ZOOM. Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. (Interested in this event but unable to join it live? All registered attendees will receive a link to a recording of it that will be viewable for one week afterwards.)
HOW MUCH: $150. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com
SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are always available. Click here to apply.
Does your writing live in the fluid flux between fiction, nonfiction and poetics? Is your fiction informed, deformed, and reformed through nonfiction? Is your nonfiction inhabited by poetics, images, rhythm, sound? What is the relationship between forms when you let the forms speak to each other? In this webgasm Lidia will map out generative questions and connections between forms, open up some formal play on the page, and give you some strategies for writing against the grain of market-driven limits. Includes at least one magical guest.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author the short story collection Verge (Riverhead Books), the novels The Book of Joan (Harper Books), The Small Backs of Children (Harper Books), and Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books). Her TED Talk “On the Beauty of Being a Misfit” has received over 3 million views, and spawned The Misfit Manifesto (TED Books/Simon and Schuster). She lives and collaborates in Portland, Oregon at Corporeal Writing. She is a very good swimmer.