Covid Safer Policy: This event is in-person; Masks & Proof of Vaccination + Booster Required. More about the IPRC’s Covid-Safer Guidelines here ; reach out to info@iprc.org with questions re: medical exemption.

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Workshop Description: The world is, well, a mess. Take your coat off and slip into something a little more surreal. Explore the melding of worlds, of oddities and uncanny. Surreal genre-defying works are fertile ground for disassembling built narratives, defying capitalism and colonialism, and finding our individual voices to create a chorus of oddities. Forget what’s real, imagine new realities, buck genre, buck gender, and let’s get weird.

This workshop will look at surrealist short stories, poetry, and ideologies by writers such as Lydia Davis, Richard Brautigan, Haruki Murakami, and Aimé Césaire and feature exercises based on those and other works.

You’ll leave the class with a draft of a micro/ flash story or prose poem and a passport to the great beyond.

Instructor: Alayna Becker

Class Meetings: 1

Sunday, Aug. 13th

2 – 5pm

Capacity: 10

Workshop Fee: By donation, pay what you can;

*Suggested Donation: $35

About the Instructor:

Alayna Becker is a writer, multimedia producer and comedian living in Portland, OR. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Shout Your Abortion anthology (PM Press), The Harvard Advocate, Autostraddle, X-R-A-Y, Pacifica Review, Manifest Station, among others. She is the managing editor of Moss Lit, a literary magazine dedicated to celebrating new and established northwest voices.