This INSCRIBE workshop will explore magical realism, or what Cuban writer, Alejo Carpentier calls, “the marvellous real.
This INSCRIBE workshop will explore magical realism, or what Cuban writer, Alejo Carpentier calls, “the marvellous real.” Embracing the extraordinary as commonplace, the workshop will explore the creation and development of magical fiction grounded in the everyday.
Through group discussion and writing exercises, each participant will create a character who exists within a magical realist world and emerges with a distinct identity and voice. Narrating via the lens of the “marvellous real,” we will sharpen our skills as fiction writers, and learn what it means to give characters life and breath on the page.
Marcia Douglas visits the UK to promote her latest novel, The Marvellous Equations of Dread: a novel in bass riddim [Peepal Tree Press], longlisted for the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
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