R234. The Essay Blinks: Multimedia Writers on Crafting the Visual Essay

Room 200 D&E, Level 2
Thursday, April 9, 2015
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

As literary publishing adjusts to the presence of both small-scale presses and web-based magazines, more publishers are adapting to and even selecting for writing that experiments visually. But what makes a multimedia essay? And what makes a good one? Specifically, which techniques render multimedia elements inextricable from rather than extraneous to a text? On this panel, four writers focus on the craft of visual texts and address how ancient essay forms are thriving in the newest media.


Participants

Moderator:

Sarah Minor is a doctoral candidate in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, and she is a contributing editor at Essay Daily.

Mark Ehling is a writer, teacher, and multimedia artist living in Minneapolis. His stories, comics, plays, and films have appeared in international publications, on the internet, and on stages and screens in the Twin Cities.

Amaranth Borsuk is a poet working across media platforms. She is the author of Handiwork; Tonal Saw, a chapbook; and Between Page and Screen, a book of augmented reality poems created with Brad Bouse. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Eric LeMay teaches in the writing program at Ohio University. He serves as an editor for Alimentum and NOR and is a host on the New Books Network. He is the author of three books, including In Praise of Nothing, a collection of traditional and multimedia essays. www.ericlemay.org.

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