Poetry as Spellwork: reimagining the world speculatively

Workshop Description: I believe in writing into existence. Using our desires and the difficulties of this current world, we can begin to imagine what are the possibilities of a world where these cease to exist or what structures would be needed. Worldbuilding around the themes of liberation and change. We will be reading contemporary works of authors who shaped the future with their words. This workshop will give opportunities to envision a better life and how the themes of today’s world can inform our fictional worlds and communities by digging into the emotive parts of ourselves and hopes for the future.

About the Presenter: Lysz Flo is an AfroCaribbean Latine, polyglot,  word artist, and indie author, member of The Estuary Collective, Creatively Exposed podcast host, Voodoonauts Summer 2020 Fellow and Obsidian Black Listening 2022 Fellow. She released her poetry novel Soliloquy of an Ice Queen, March 2020. She is a Grubstreet educator since 2020. Her poems can be found in FIYAH, Hellebore, Skin Coloured Mag, Strange Horizons and has done various multimedia projects work O’ Miami. Online Crystal and Spiritual wellness shop owner at Astrolyszics.com

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