T200.

Dear You, Love Me: Queer(ing) as/and Epistolary Form

120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

What about the letter appeals to queer writers across multiple genres? How, when, and why do queer writers turn to/make use of epistolary form? Working with and within the form of the letter, this diverse panel of three transgenerational queer-identified writers reveals epistolarity as an aperture for vulnerability, renewed intimacy with the body, and access for/to past and future selves. In writing to an imagined audience of everyone, how might we use the letter to express desires yet to come?



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Event_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Ames Hawkins is a trans writer and author of the award-winning book These Are Love(d) Letters. A professor of English and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago, Ames has been a Lambda Fellow and in residence at Bread Loaf, Banff Centre, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

CM Burroughs is associate professor of poetry at Columbia College Chicago. Her books are The Vital System and Master Suffering. She has been awarded fellowships from organizations including Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and Cave Canem Foundation.

Samuel Ace is the author most recently of Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), and Meet Me There (Belladonna* Germinal Texts). A recipient of an Astraea Writer's Award, he is a multitime finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College.

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