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Branching Out:
Writing Experimental Forms

Writing Workshop in New Jersey
January 13-16, 2023
Led by Cynthia Arrieu-King

A workshop for poets and prose writers. When our writing outgrows the constraints of traditional genres, what structures should we pursue? What voices? In this workshop, we will discuss the work of unconventional authors such as Raymond Queneau, Lesley Jenike and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as we practice writing in experimental forms. We will use meditation to more clearly envision our project goals, and complete generative writing exercises in diction and style. We will also make time to share our experiments. Bring a work-in-progress or start something brand new.

*Limited to just 10 participants.*

 

“I love the three night time-frame. It allows for deep work and play. The workshops were the right length, and the panels and evening events were lovely. This was my first, but not my last time! Thank you.”
~ Laura, Montclair, NJ

 

Cynthia Arrieu-King

Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. A professor of creative writing at Stockton University, her poetry books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China; Manifest, Gatewood Prize winner selected by Harryette Mullen; Futureless Languages; and Continuity. In 2021, she published The Betweens, an experimental memoir. She also coauthored By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors with Sophia Kartsonis, and cowrote the collection Unlikely Conditions with Hillary Gravendyk. Cynthia’s latest poem is “TBQH” from Taco Bell Quarterly.