Blurring the Lines [Cecilia Woloch]

We’ll look at models from classical and contemporary literature that illustrate the way borders between genres can be blurred to beautiful and powerful effect, then we’ll do some blurring of the borders in our own writing. A series of generative exercises will prompt the writing of prose poems, flash fiction, novels in verse, and lyrical nonfiction passages. Each participant will leave with three or four new pieces of writing, complete in themselves or seeds for longer works to be brought to fruition.