Surrealism: Writing The Uncanny Union:

Melting clocks. A woman with the body of a shot deer. A pipe which is not a pipe. A fur teacup. How can a major movement in art in the 1920s impact how you write today? In this workshop, we’ll explore the male-dominated foundations of surrealism, tracing its evolution through art, manifestos, and writing. We’ll work through the major tenants of the movement, its male founders, and the massive unearthing of female surrealist work. Then, through discussion and a writing exercise we’ll explore how surrealism can unlock the subconscious in your writing, workshopping techniques you can use to juxtapose written realities in order to create new, uncanny unions within your own work.

BIO: Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party, selected by Deb Olin Unferth as the winner of the Caketrain Press award, and The Book of X, her first novel, which is available from Two Dollar Radio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Guernica, VICE, New York Tyrant, Juked, Night Block, The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Collagist, and more. She has been awarded residences at Disquiet International program in Portugal and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. In 2017, she was the keynote speaker at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference in Bordeaux, France, where she presented on surrealist writing as a mode of feminism.

**To ensure high-quality experience, the workshop will only seat 20 participants. Participation is first come, first served.