“There are photographs one takes, of oneself and of other people and it is in these there is the production of not writing.” — Anne Boyer
Scenes from our improv and “team-building” sessions.
LAST DAY TO APPLY to our weeklong fiction workshop in Portland. Study with Charles D’Ambrosio, scholarships available.
Feed us those apps: undergroundworkshop.org/appl…
Coming off that #AWP19 high? Spend seven days studying fiction with Charles D'Ambrosio. His accomplishments are too long to list here, so read about him on our site. Scholarships available!
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One big takeaway from #AWP19: You gotta be able to READ your work. It's more than speaking words out loud; it's a performance.
Our week-long seminar will include a public reading seminar, followed by a public reading the next day. Come join us in #PDX!
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"a remarkable sense of duty
loyalty to my fellow man
loyalty to my little brother linda
the person i am in full conflict
with the person i’ve established
myself to be historically"
from "like lilac," by Underground faculty member Jae Yeun Choi
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We love this @parisreview piece, "A Poet's Complaints Against Fiction," & we share a disinterest in hero protagonists slaying the dragon.
Let's write some fiction that makes readers look inward & confront the parts of themselves they'd prefer to ignore.
theparisreview.org/blog/2019…
The baby is you. The rattle is our workshop. And if you go to our workshop you might get to meet the baby, and that’s worth money but we’re giving it away for freeeeeeeeeee
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“And for those who bear the brunt of hate because of the color of their skin, or the sound of their name, or the scarf on their head, or the person they love...you are known. You are loved. You are enough. Let your light shine. I wrote this book for you.” — @sam_aye_ahm
Edith Wharton considered her dogs to be an integral part of her writing practice—as if we needed another reason to love them. electricliterature.com/famou…