Nov. 2 4-5 pm Abandoned Spaces: Writing Horror and the Queer Experience with Blake Hamilton
In this workshop, participants will engage in the process of exploring spaces (buildings, homes, towns, or places of the past) and relate them to the experience of queer existence. What do places say about us, especially those that have been left behind? What fears come up when exploring a location that has become “unknown”? How does horror arise in places when the location is a character, communicator, or symbol? This is an opportunity to expand one's writing, world building, and expression into undefined realms.
Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in Spring 2023.
In this workshop, participants will engage in the process of exploring spaces (buildings, homes, towns, or places of the past) and relate them to the experience of queer existence. What do places say about us, especially those that have been left behind? What fears come up when exploring a location that has become “unknown”? How does horror arise in places when the location is a character, communicator, or symbol? This is an opportunity to expand one's writing, world building, and expression into undefined realms.
Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in Spring 2023.
In this workshop, participants will engage in the process of exploring spaces (buildings, homes, towns, or places of the past) and relate them to the experience of queer existence. What do places say about us, especially those that have been left behind? What fears come up when exploring a location that has become “unknown”? How does horror arise in places when the location is a character, communicator, or symbol? This is an opportunity to expand one's writing, world building, and expression into undefined realms.
Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in Spring 2023.