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Women of New Fabulism and Speculative Literature: A Reading
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Fabulism and speculative literature have long employed the bizarre, unexpected, and impossible to better reflect human experience. Recent political and societal changes, such as anti-trans laws, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the attack on no-fault divorce make the seemingly impossible much more expected, and these genres feel increasingly relevant and prescient. Join us for a reading by writers who use the weird to reflect on what it means to be female in an increasingly fraught world.
Participants
Sarah Kain Gutowski is the author of two books, The Familiar, a fabulist narrative-in-poems about female midlife, and Fabulous Beast: Poems, winner of the 14th annual National Indies Excellence Award for Poetry. With artist Meredith Starr, she is cocreator of Every Second Feels Like Theft.
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry), and three chapbooks. She lives in Massachusetts.
Nic Anstett, a trans speculative writer from Baltimore, Maryland, is a graduate from the University of Oregon’s MFA program and has attended workshops through Tin House, Lambda Literary, and the Clarion Foundation. Her work appears in One Story, Witness magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
Aimee Parkison is the author of Suburban Death Project and Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, which won the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Parkison teaches in the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and has published eight books of fiction.
Chloe Chun Seim's work has appeared in LitMag, Split Lip Magazine, Free State Review, and others. She earned her MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her novel, Churn, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and is due out from Texas Review Press in November 2023. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
