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SESSION 3.4.5 Workshop. Estranged Language: A Workshop on Synesthesia and Writing

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What:
Workshop
When:
2:00 PM, Friday 9 May 2025 (1 hour 30 minutes)
Theme:
In-person
Organizers: Tim Horvath ∆ with Matthew Kirtkpatrick ∆ (Warren Wilson MFA Program in Writing/Phillips Exeter English Department, Stratham, USA)

In this creative writing workshop, the leaders–writers whose recent projects push the boundaries of how language can be used to describe and evoke the non–visual (sound, scent, and texture)--will share writing activities designed to guide participants into fresh linguistic and conceptual zones. After reading from their own work, workshop leaders will introduce participants to an array of examples of contemporary fiction and poetry that reimagine our sensory possibilities, affording us ways of rendering, conjuring, and even experiencing the world anew. Participants will then have the opportunity to do some synesthetic writing of their own either individually or collaboratively, choosing from a series of multi-modal prompts, and have the option of sharing near the end of the session. Keywords: Writing, Synesthesia, Metaphor, Defamiliarization

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