R139. The Chapbook Across Genres

Robert Muroff Bookfair Stage, LA Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level One
Thursday, March 31, 2016
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

Though commonly known as a poetic artifact, the chapbook form enjoys increasing recognition for its presentation of fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid works. This panel, composed of independent and university presses and journals, will explore the unique and compelling nature of the chapbook form across genres. What are its advantages and limitations over presenting work as single pieces and as book-length collections? Panelists will share resources for engaging with the chapbook form.


Participants

Moderator:

Kate Asche is the author of Our Day in the Labyrinth, a chapbook of poems. She also writes essays and stories. She serves as contributing editor at Under the Gum Tree, an independent creative nonfiction micromagazine, and teaches workshops and builds literary community in Sacramento, CA.

Allison Linville is a graduate student at the University of Montana and the editor of CutBank Literary Magazine. Allison is concurrently enrolled in the MFA and Environmental Studies programs and received the 2015 Brainerd Fellowship. She has also been a US Forest Service employee for twelve years.

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is an editor at New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM and a recipient of a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Her first collection of poems, A Lesson in Smallness, is forthcoming this year. Her writing has appeared in Drunken Boat, Blackbird, and the Kenyon Review Online.

Leah Maines is publisher of Finishing Line Press, an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, writer, editor, and actor. She served as poet in residence for Northern Kentucky University in 2000 (funded in part by the the National Endowment for the Humanities.) www.imdb.com/name/nm4558801/

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