The Music of Minor Distractions: A Multi-genre Revision Workshop
Wed, Jun 11
|Virtual Workshop
In this course, we will pay attention to what exists at the periphery of our current drafts and move through a revision process that embraces strangeness, unmaking and remaking, and unconventional approaches to plot and/or poetics.


Time & Location
Jun 11, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Virtual Workshop
About the event
Workshop Description: Multi-genre writer, critic, and organizer Alina Stefanescu, in her blog post “Questions for poetry revision,” asks: "If the poem is a room, what is the background music? Is it distracting?" Many times, we feel “stuck” or having “writer’s block” when revising our writing, unsure how to proceed. What if we change our perspective and look more closely at what lives in the background of our poem, story, or essay? What if, instead of tuning out the distracting music, we pay closer attention to its melody? In most institutional, Western (i.e. colonial) literature spaces, we are taught that revision is a practice to sharpen our writing, to mold our language into a well-composed story or poem that a reader can follow and connect to. What if, instead of focusing on elements like order, word choice, reading flow, sentence structure/syntax, and main theme(s)—what can be considered the “central” elements o…
Tickets
General Admission
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Want with the minimum set to $25.
$+Service feeWriters In Need
Please only select this option if you are a writer in need and need financial assistance to attend this workshop.
$10.00+$0.25 service fee
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