Ferndale, MI
1) Hybrid Fiction.
To be hybrid means to blur boundaries, mix genres, exceed limits, to be other than what has been before. Hybrid fiction and its writers seek out difference on the page. They want more than what has otherwise been made possible by what has already been made. Hybrid fiction and its makers are dissatisfied with the limitations of language, form, story. They insist on raising the stakes and redefining what fiction is, what it can be. The texts of this workshop will reflect this sort of singularity and difference. As such, this is a workshop aimed at those students who wish to discover and read and write fictions that seek new ways to be told.
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2) Logic in the House of Invention.
In this workshop aimed at the making of new work, we will look at the work of writers who are not afraid to write fiction governed not by the limits of reality but fiction that allows the powers of invention and language to create its own sense of logic. Why be a mirror when we can be a window? Why be a camera that captures only what is there when we can make out of words on the page a house, an entire world, that is entirely its own new animal? These are the sorts of questions that will drive us as writers to truly bring out new possibilities and write the stories that haven't yet been told.