Blended Genre: Workshop

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Blended Genre: Workshop
with Beth Alvarado

Coming this Fall!

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What does Blended Genre mean? And why does genre matter?

In order to explore these questions we will write generative exercises that draw on autobiographical moments and do artistic exercises that encourage us to experiment with form. We will move back and forth between word and image. We’ll read work from a variety of writers and respond to one another’s creations. In some ways, this is a class in process. I’m hoping that alternating from free / no form to strict form to invented form can make us more aware of the tensions between form and content that always exist in our own artistic process and, in so doing, free us up to work in new ways. No previous experience as a writer or artist is necessary.

BIO: Beth Alvarado has an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. Her story collection, Not a Matter of Love, was published by New Rivers Press in 2006. Excerpts from her lyrical memoir, Anthropologies, are forthcoming from Seattle Review and Cimarron Review and have been published in Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry.

Call / email Casa Libre to register www.casalibre.org. (325-9145)

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