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Media, Arts and Humanities at Sussex are privileged to host So Mayer for our Creative Writing Retreat!
Let’s go back to the future in this science fiction reading/writing/viewing/playing workshop that will highlight:
- collaboration and activism as tools for world-building and vice versa
- building our sensory and generative imaginaries through deep time (what is your future's past?)
- using non-fiction forms and styles to make the future feel real
- the uses of science fiction when futures feel precarious and endangered
Bring water, fragments, ideas, headlines, songs, hopes, inventions, your most vexing bureaucratic encounters: no science-fiction writing or reading experience needed.
We will read a short story and watch a short film to have some shared texts in the room. There will be individual and collaborative writing/planning opportunities, and some optional movement (this can be seated). So will also give a short reading and answer your questions about form and practice.
ALL are welcome. No writing experience is necessary.
The workshop is free but places are strictly limited. Please complete the registration form or email Sam Ladkin, s.ladkin@sussex.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
DEADLINE for entries: 5pm Wednesday 26 April 2024.
Biography
So Mayer is a writer, publisher, bookseller, organiser and film curator. Their collection of short stories Truth and Dare is out now from Cipher Press, and was long listed for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize. Their recent books include A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, a book-length essay on queer films, bodies and fascism for Peninsula Press, and their most recent collaborative projects are Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver Press), The Film We Can’t See (BBC Sounds), Unreal Sex (Cipher Press), and Mothers of Invention: Film, Media and Caregiving Labor. So works with Silver Press, Burley Fisher Books and queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes. ?@Such_Mayer.
Generously funded by the School of Media, Arts and Humanities and the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, University of Sussex. Any questions please contact Sam Ladkin, s.ladkin@sussex.ac.uk