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#FeelsBad: Writing Discomfort and Pessimism in Genre

Room 437, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
Saturday, March 11, 2023
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

This panel’s participants will discuss the role of pessimism, negative feelings, and readerly discomfort in genre writing, including dystopic, horror, speculative, and hybrid writing. Genre writing is distinct from literary fiction not just because of stylistic and content conventions, but because it provides an approach and vision that explores marginalized gender, sexuality, and identity in both subversive and affirming ways. Panelists will read from their own work and along with accompanying



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: #FeelsBad_Panel_Outline_-_due_1_20.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Ginger Ko is an assistant professor at Sam Houston State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing. She is the author of Motherlover and Inherit, as well as several chapbooks. Her latest project is POWER ON, a book as interactive app.

Katie Jean Shinkle's books include Tannery Bay (with Steven Dunn); None of This Is an Invitation (with Jessica Alexander); Ruination, and others. She is an assistant professor in the MFA in creative writing, editing, and publishing program at Sam Houston State University.

Kenning (AKA Kenyatta) JP García is a performer, antipoet, humorist, and diarist. JP is the author of innovative diary collections such as OF (What Place Meant), Furthermore, and Slow Living. JP is also an organizer for the St Rocco's Reading Series and is an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press.

Alexandrine Ogundimu is a Nigerian-American transgender writer, editor, and noise artist from Indiana. She is the author of two novellas, a story collection, and the forthcoming novel The Longest Summer. She received her MFA from NYU.

Vidhu Aggarwal's books of poems, The Trouble with Humpadori and Daughter Isotope, take mobile forms in video, comics, and performance. They teach postcolonial / transnational literatures and creative writing at Rollins College.

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