F152. Writing in the Internet Age

Room 101, Washington Convention Center, Level One
Friday, February 10, 2017
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

The internet is the most significant advance in writing and publishing since Gutenberg, and it's also one of the defining subjects of contemporary literature. It can be a powerful tool and a supreme distraction, an interruption or inspiration. Writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction talk about how the web has influenced their work and working lives, and discuss the internet as a subject, compositional instrument, publishing platform, and (sometimes troubling) extension of the writer’s brain.


Participants

Moderator:

Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb. His awards include an NEA fellowship for poetry, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, and the FIELD Poetry Prize. He teaches for the low-residency MFA at Ashland University, and at Ball State University, where he edits the Broken Plate.

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, and has written essays for publications including the Believer, the New Inquiry, and Salon.

Sandra Simonds is the author of five collections of poetry including Mother Was a Tragic Girl, The Sonnets, Steal It Back, and Further Problems w/ Pleasure. Her poems have been published in the Best American Poetry 2015 and 2014, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the Chicago Review, and elsewhere.

Ashley Ford is an essayist, editor, and columnist with work in PANK magazine, the Rumpus, Crossed Genre's Magazine, ELLE Magazine, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, and Literary Orphans.

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