Description

THE WORKSHOP

Clickable Poems: Interactive Techniques for Literary Writers

Digital games provide interesting points of entry for experimenting with narrative structure, interactivity, and genre: game writers can let the reader make choices, experience multiple versions of the same story, or even die and try again. What happens when we start calling our readers ‘players’ instead? Can literature ask the player to engage in actual action, even if it’s just a click? 

This workshop is open to literary writers of all genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) and will introduce participants to the emerging canons of game poetry and poetry games. The workshop includes a beginner-friendly crash course on interactive software, and participants will be given a chance to adapt existing material into an interactive piece. No coding or digital creation experience necessary. 

WHEN & WHERE

Saturday & Sunday June 27 & 28 :   10 AM-12 PM PST / 11 AM-1 PM MST / 12-2 PM CST / 1-3 PM EST

The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom. Upon registration, you will be sent the link closer to the event.

REGISTRATION

To bring poetry to the people, we are offering our workshops on a donation basis. To support our Tiny Resident, we recommend a $25-50 sliding donation. That said, please feel welcome to pay any amount that you can! All funds will be used to support Tiny Spoon’s Tiny Residency Program.

MEET YOUR WORKSHOP LEAD

Hope is a writer and translator of fiction, theater, and video games. She has taught a seminar about video games and political agency, spoken on panels about working across mediums, and hosts interdisciplinary gatherings about human attention in New York City. She is a multigenre reader at Split Lip Press and a proud alum of Soho Rep’s Writer-Director Lab and the BIPOC Critics Lab at the Public Theater.