Beyond Narrative: Achieving Radical Authorship Through Literary Collage with Piper J. Daniels

 

 

Course Description: 

Walter Benjamin once said, “All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.” In this advanced three-week class, we’ll discover what is gained when we forego conventional expectations of content and form. Working in such mediums as personal essay, lyric essay, memoir, fiction, poetry, philosophy, mixed-media film, photography, song lyric, journal, dream, and anecdote, we’ll unearth our private obsessions and render our experiences accessible and relevant to a larger audience. Revolutionary strategies include creatively and psychologically generative writing exercises, genuine in-class collaboration and community building, discussion and implementation of new and innovative literary forms, and a fresh take on writer's workshop.

By the last class, everyone will have a collage-in-progress and a tailored submission strategy. If anyone ever told you that your work was too wild, too dark, too queer, too experimental or chaotic, this class is for you.

 

Duration: 

3 Hours

 

Genre Type:

Hybrid, Essay, Literary Collage, literary Transgenre, Experimental, Mixed Media, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

 

Course Type: 

Generative Workshop

 

Course Level 

Intermediate, Intermediate-Advanced, Advanced

 

Dates and Times:

Wednesdays, October 9-23, 2019

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

 

Pricing: 

$149/Regular   $119/Student

 

Instructor Bio: 

Piper J. Daniels (she/ her) is a Michigan native and queer intersectional feminist currently living in the American Southwest. She received a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from University of Washington. Her debut essay collection, Ladies Lazarus, won the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award, was longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award For the Art of the Essay, and is currently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. Entropy named Ladies Lazarus one of their favorite books of 2018. Daniels’s work appears in Hotel Amerika, The Rumpus, Tarpaulin Sky, Entropy, Longreads, and elsewhere. She works as a full-time writer and manuscript consultant to the curious and the brave.