The Shape of a Feeling: Experiments in Lyric Essay and Hybrid Forms with Emilly Prado

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The Shape of a Feeling: Experiments in Lyric Essay and Hybrid Forms with Emilly Prado
Sunday, August 2
11 AM – 2 PM PST / 2 PM – 5 PM PST
Online

What happens when a story refuses to stay linear? Sometimes that story needs to be told slant—or squiggly, or sparsely, or outside the margins entirely. In this generative craft intensive, we’ll explore hybrid and lyric forms that blur the line between poetry and prose, image and text, memory and imagination. We’ll look at writers who try to define the undefinable, and who follow the threads of their truths outside chronology by looking to fragments, letters, and lists.

We’ll read work that resists neat classification but may be referred to as hermit crabs, braids, essayettes, hermit crabs, and/or epistolary by writers such as Chet’la Sebree, Traci Brimhall, Chelsea Biondolillo, Randon Billings Noble, Ross Gay, Elissa Washuta, Carmen Maria Machado, and Anna Joy Springer, among others.

Through short writing bursts, close readings, and playful experimentation, you’ll be invited to try on new forms—or invent your own. This intensive is a rich springboard for writers feeling stuck or simply seeking fresh inspiration and new ways of seeing. While we won’t be able to cover every possibility, you’ll walk away with a robust reading list and plenty of generative starts to fuel future experiments. The class is designed for those new to hybrid writing, but all genres and experience levels are welcome.. Come ready to write, explore, and delight in the expansive possibilities of form. A full reading list with PDFs will be emailed in advance.

OUTCOMES:
– Students will walk away with a deeper understanding of lyric and hybrid definitions
– Students will experiment and play with short writing prompt bursts with opportunities to share
– Students will read, analyze, and discuss model texts together
– Students will learn foundational experimental craft forms to incorporate into future writing projects

Scholarship
The scholarship for this intensive has already been awarded.

BIO: Emilly Prado is an award-winning writer, multidisciplinary artist, speaker, and educator with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. She is the author of Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, 2021), winner of a 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, amongst other awards, and Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019), a youth nonfiction book examining culture, identity, and U.S. history.

Her journalism, cultural criticism, and photography have appeared in numerous national and regional publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Eater, Bitch Media, and The Oregonian, and her work has received awards from the American Library Association, Oregon Arts Commission, and the Randolph College MFA where she earned a Blackburn Fellowship. She was the 2024 Ich Chuvawve Teaching Fellow at Arizona State University, a 2023 Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Nonfiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a 2018 Emerging Journalists Community Stories Fellow (awarded in partnership with Oregon Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Pulitzer Prizes).

She has taught creative writing at literary organizations, non-profits, and youth detention centers across the U.S., and is on faculty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s MFA in Creative Writing. Emilly also moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latine DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Learn more at www.emillyprado.com