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| Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | |
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | |
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Virtual |
V115. Although some poetry may be written for the page to be consumed privately, poetry as an art form is steeped in the history of oral storytelling. Spoken word, slam poetry, and poetry alike can serve as intimate and passionate dialogues between the writer and the audience. Join us for a conversation with playwrights who have translated their passion for these art forms into their works for the stage in powerful, new ways. This event has been prerecorded, and will be available to watch on-demand online from March 8, 2023 to April 8, 2023. Download event outline and supplemental documents.ayla xuân chi sullivan (they/them) is your neighborhood Black, Vietnamese, Queer, and Trans performance artist out here tryna make a world without cages by any means necessary. They have two degrees, one mutual aid cooperative (Shift 23 Media), and projects spanning across film, television, and theater.
Elaine Romero is an award-winning US playwright. Her plays have been presented across the US and abroad. TITLE IX appeared in the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. She is an associate professor at the University of Arizona in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television. Twitter Username: ElaineRomero |
| Thursday, March 9, 2023 | |
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. | |
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Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4 |
T225. For centuries, the Asian femme body has been a fraught site of violence, colonization and objectification. How does speculative fiction allow us to reclaim and rewrite harmful and false narratives we never consented to? How can bodily transformation (into monsters, robots, mythological creatures and more) desexualize, reimagine and liberate the Asian femme body? The panelists will explore how writing speculative elements in their work creates space for subversive and transformative narratives. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Pushcart Prize–winning Taiwanese American writer from California. A Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and a NYFA Fellow, her debut novel, Disorientation, was published by Penguin Press, and her speculative short story collection, Where Are You Really From?, is forthcoming in 2024. Twitter Username: elainehsiehchou K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020) and the forthcoming short story collection Gods of Want. Isabel Yap is a Filipino author of fiction and poetry. Born and raised in Manila, she is currently based in the US. Her work was nominated for a Locus award and has appeared in venues including Tor.com, Lit Hub, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Her debut short story collection is Never Have I Ever. Twitter Username: visyap Silvia Park is a Korean/American writer and visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College. Their work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Tor.com, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, among others. Their debut novel is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2024. Twitter Username: silviajpark Ploi Pirapokin is a Thai-born, Hong Kong-raised extraordinary alien. She is the nonfiction editor at Newfound Journal, and is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream magazine, and more. She's a 2018 Clarion Writers Workshop graduate, and holds an MFA from SFSU. Twitter Username: ppirapokin |
| Saturday, March 11, 2023 | |
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. | |
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Room 437, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4 |
S171. What happens when we bring the creative writing workshop to the large lecture hall? Can a class of 250 students possibly grapple with the nuances of writing fiction, memoir, or poetry? How does a teacher even attempt to create a sense of community, so vital in creative writing spaces, for such a large group? Four writer-teachers discuss how to adapt strategies from the workshop to the lecture hall and share new techniques developed especially to engage students in large enrollment courses. Download event outline and supplemental documents.John Vigna is the author of Bull Head, Quill & Quire editor’s pick of the year and finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and the novel No Man's Land. Named one of ten writers to watch by CBC Books, he's an assistant professor of teaching and pedagogy chair at UBC's School of Creative Writing. Twitter Username: john_vigna Website: www.johnvignaink.ca Elaine K. Chang teaches creative writing, critical theory, and film/media and cultural studies at the University of Guelph. She has original feature screenplays in development, and has published poetry and articles in Asian North American culture and politics, among other fields. Danielle Geller's first book, Dog Flowers, was published in 2021. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The New Yorker, and Brevity. She teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria and is a faculty mentor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Twitter Username: dellegeller Bronwen Tate is an assistant professor of teaching in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore, and her poems and essays appear in Contemporary Literature, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Twitter Username: bronwentate |
3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. | |
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Rooms 345-346, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3 |
S219. How can humor create transformative and generative spaces to explore otherwise painful and traumatic experiences? How can laughter act as a way to self-protect, to productively channel rage and to confront exterior forces such as homophobia, transphobia, familial violence, racism, and sexism? We'll discuss how we use humor, satire, and absurdity with intentionality and inclusivity to face the page, focusing on humor's transgressive potential as a political mode of subversion, healing, and justice. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Claire Stanford is the author of Happy for You, published by Viking in Spring 2022. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in English from UCLA. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Twitter Username: clairemiye Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Pushcart Prize–winning Taiwanese American writer from California. A Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and a NYFA Fellow, her debut novel, Disorientation, was published by Penguin Press, and her speculative short story collection, Where Are You Really From?, is forthcoming in 2024. Twitter Username: elainehsiehchou
Twitter Username: isle_mcelroy Chantal V. Johnson is a lawyer and writer. Her debut novel, Post-Traumatic, was published by Little, Brown in 2022. A graduate of Stanford Law School and a 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, she lives in New York. Twitter Username: chantalvjohnson Edgar Gomez is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. He has written for POPSUGAR, Narratively, Longreads, Catapult, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, and elsewhere online and in print. He is also the author of the recent memoir High-Risk Homosexual. For more, visit EdgarGomez.net. Twitter Username: otroedgargomez |
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