T190.
Of Triggers & Things: Workshopping the Difficult Text
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
In an online class with international participants, one panelist was taken aback by a submission of creative nonfiction that entered de Sadean realms of sexual exploration. Despite the writing's brilliance and the scene's necessity, the panelist felt that a warning, at least, was necessary for those with less tolerance for extreme behaviors and graphic description. This panel will discuss strategies for confronting that moment in workshop.
Participants
Tim Tomlinson is cofounder of New York Writers Workshop and coauthor of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He's lived in China, the Philippines, Thailand, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, Miami, New Orleans, Boston, and New York, all of which figure in his poetry and fiction.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of five books of poems, a volume of essays, a hybrid work of fiction, and a collection of zuihitsu. He heads the New York City-based literary nonprofit Singapore Unbound and its publishing arm Gaudy Boy.
Jacqueline Bishop has twice been awarded Fulbright Fellowships, including a year-long grant to Morocco; her work exhibits widely in North America, Europe and North Africa. The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers is Jacqueline Bishop's latest publication.
Sally Breen, PhD, is the author of The Casuals, winner of the Varuna Harper Collins Manuscript Prize (2011), and Atomic City (2013). She is senior lecturer in creative writing at Griffith University Australia and executive director of APWT Asia Pacific Writers and Translators.
