Cracking the Code: Using Experimentation to Tap the Lyric Essay

ONDEMAND WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:

Braided essays. Lyric essays. Hermit crab essays. In the past two decades, the essay has broken out of its shell to absorb and take on exciting new shapes and capacities. In this generative session, we’ll consider the lyric essay and its possibilities. We’ll discuss experimentation and innovation with an eye to teasing out the strange and unexpected in your essaying

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Hasanthika Sirisena has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award recipient. Their short story collection The Other One won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and was released in 2016. Their essay collection Dark Tourist (The Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books 2021) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.