S135. The Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary Experimental Prose by Women Writers

Cedar Room, Sheraton Seattle, 2nd Floor
Saturday, March 1, 2014
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

Writers from Wreckage of Reason 2, an anthology of contemporary experimental prose by women, discuss challenging traditional modes of storytelling, subverting narrative and language, and exploring provocative subject matter as they follow in the footsteps of Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Djuna Barnes at a time when experimental writing by women has been virtually shut out of the mainstream publishing market.


Participants

Moderator:

Aimee Parkison is the author of three books: Woman with Dark Horses, The Innocent Party, and The Petals of Your Eyes. Associate professor at UNC Charlotte, she has won an Isherwood Fellowship, a Kurt Vonnegut Prize, and a Hearst Creative Artist Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society.

Alexandra Chasin is the author of Selling Out, Kissed By, and the recent app/novella Brief. A recipient of the 2012 NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, she is currently a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY. She is associate professor of Literary Studies at Lang College, The New School in NYC.

Danielle Alexander is an independent writer and scholar. Her fiction often addresses the human relationship to plant life and botanical systems. She is currently at work on a novel that engages the history of the cultivation of cotton.

Cynthia Reeves teaches in the MFA Program at Rosemont College, specializing in novella theory. Her first book, Badlands, won Miami University Press’s Novella Prize. She is currently at work on a book of three linked novellas, with excerpts published in Colorado Review, Columbia, and Silk Road.

Nava Renek is a writer, editor, and educator. She conceived of and edited the first volume of Wreckage of Reason and co-edited the second volume. Her publishing credits include the novels Spiritland and No Perfect Words, and a short story collection, Mating in Captivity.

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