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The Medium is the Message?: Writers Working Across Genres

Virtual
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

This panel explores the myths and realities of writers who work across multiple literary genres—nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Panelists will address the specter of genre mastery, institutional pressures, and how genre pivoting influences personal and professional lives. Craft topics will include the relationship between form and content, voice across genres, polygenre versus hybrid work, and the persistence of genre. The panel affirms writing across genres as transformative practice.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Multiple_Genre_Writing_Panel.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Lev Keltner is a trans writer, chapbooks editor at Newfound, and author of the novel Goodnight. Their flash autofiction and poems have appeared in Passages North, Peach Mag, [PANK], Anomaly, Hobart, and elsewhere and have been nominated for Best of the Net. They write RPGs at Feverdream Games.

Suzanne Richardson earned her MFA at the University of New Mexico. She is currently a PhD student at SUNY Binghamton in Binghamton, New York. She is the writer of the Three Things column at No Contact Magazine. Her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in various journals.

Casandra Lopez, a Chicana/Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño writer, is the author of the poetry collection Brother Bullet. A CantoMundo fellow and Headlands and Hedgebrook resident, she teaches at Northwest Indian College.

Jen Soriano is a Filipinx writer whose work blurs the boundaries between nonfiction, surrealism, and poetry. They are the author of the chapbook Making the Tongue Dry, and Nervous, a lyric essay collection about historical trauma and the neuroscience of healing, forthcoming from Amistad in 2023.

Samantha Tetangco is a queer Filipina multigenre writer and educator. Her works have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies. She is artistic director and coproducer of Plume: A Writer’s Podcast and associate director of writing at University of California Merced. https://samanthatetangco.ink.

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February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center