Queer Imagination

Let's use our queer imaginations to break open new worlds on the page.

Details

This genrefluid and generative workshop is about making work that's queer beyond the surface level content, with a focus on writing in a speculative space for both fiction and nonfiction.

We'll experiment with form, language, and narrative devices and structures that are in and of themselves queer, going beyond normative modes of storytelling. How can we use things like POV, line breaks, nonlinear storytelling, etc to tell queer stories in queer ways?

This generative workshop is geared toward making queer work that might be messy and maybe even — GASP! — "unmarketable," because fuck that! We're here, we're queer, it's the end of Pride month, and we're gonna write work that's first and foremost for ourselves.

What you will learn

In this 2 hour workshop, we will: • Immerse in short in-class readings that embody queerness in complex ways beyond just queer characters • Very brief 101 on queer theory • How to break out of conventional modes of storytelling

Workshop takeaways

• Tools for experimenting with form on the page • A more expansive idea of what makes art and writing queer • An openness and confidence to try things out without worrying if it'll "work" • Reinvigorated inspiration to maybe work on our dream "weirdo" projects we've been neglecting

Additional info

If you can't attend this class live, it will be recorded! Students will receive a recording the day after the class, and it will be available for 30 days.