Arvon at Home Writing Week: Hybrid Writing - Experiments in media and genre with Joanna Walsh and Roy Claire Potter
Hybrid writing is writing that widens what writing can be. Working across media and genre, together we’ll experiment with the effects of various apparatuses and interfaces on language (handwriting, typewriting, word processing, notation), to produce multivalent texts: writing as sound, writing as visual and/or durational experience, writing as performance, writing as material object.
Using interdisciplinary methods for ‘making’ writing such as visual sequencing (collage, montage, graphic layout, mark-making), and auto-generation (found text, predictive text, subtitles, transcription software), we’ll play with the vocabularies, rhythms and textures of a range of everyday languages.
Experimenting with collaborative and solo writing, body writing, autofiction, constraints, we’ll mess around with the traditions of experimental hybridity, always with an eye on the future possibilities of text.
This course is open to writers of any level, and particularly to practitioners of all disciplines looking to incorporate writing into their work.
Joanna Walsh is the author of seven books, including three short story collections: Vertigo, Worlds from the Word’s End, and Grow a Pair. She also works as an editor, literary journalist and university teacher of creative writing.
Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental art writing with recent work commissioned by Tate Britain and Tate Publishing, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, and Cafe Oto. They are Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University.
Dates: Monday 14 - Friday 18 June 2021
Location: Online
Cost: £375 (concession: £187.50)
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