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Writing Under the Influence: Accessing the Unknown through Divination

  • AWP 2024 Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, Missouri (map)

AWP Panel

w/ Michele Battiste, Teresa Carmody, Megan Kaminski, Kristen Nelson, and Hoa Nguyen

Divination and writing are both processes that draw from archives of knowledge, but divination opens us up to sources often difficult to access: ancestral, somatic, elemental, natural, spiritual, unconscious, silenced. By accessing these sources to inform and guide writing, our writing, in turn, generates meaning and connections that alter the archives in structure, content, and accessibility. We will explore how divination creates new paths to hidden ways of knowing and writing.

Earlier Event: February 7
AWP Offsite: Rock and Roll Reading
Later Event: February 8
Divinatory Writing AWP Offsite Reading

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