Jumping Lines Workshop Reading List
by Stephanie Trott & Erin Vachon
In this workshop, we’ll be vaulting over the line between genres as we experiment with image-play in our writing. Before our first Zoom meeting, please consider one or more of the following texts and take some general notes on how images and words interact on the page. How do these authors use visuals to transform their prose or poetry? What excites you about a particular author’s technique? What surprises you about how they incorporate art? You can discuss your thoughts in our workshop forum in the introduction thread. NOTE: You do not need to buy every book listed here—though they’re certainly all worthy of attention!
Syllabus by Lynda Barry, 2014, Drawn & Quarterly
- Purchase from publisher: https://drawnandquarterly.com/syllabus
- Purchase from Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/syllabus-notes-from-an-accidental-professor/
- Follow Lynda on Tumblr: https://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/
Bright Archive by Sarah Minor, 2020, Rescue Press
- Purchase from publisher: https://www.rescuepress.co/shop/bright-archive
- Purchase from Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/bright-archive/9780999418697
- An excerpt appears online here: “A Log Cabin Square.” Diagram. 18.2 https://thediagram.com/18_2/minor.html
- “Foul Chutes: On the Archive Downriver” Ninth Letter, October 2018 http://www.ninthletter.com/minor2
- Interview with Sarah Minor: https://kenyonreview.org/2020/12/revision-as-installation-an-interview-with-sarah-minor/
- Follow Sarah on Twitter: @sarahceniaminor
Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat, 2020, Sarabande Books
- Purchase from publisher: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/titles-20192039/hotel-almighty-sarah-j-sloat
- Purchase from Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/hotel-almighty/9781946448644
- Excerpts found online here: http://www.roanokereview.org/sarah-sloat
- Interview with Sarah J. Sloat: https://therumpus.net/2020/12/the-rumpus-interview-with-sarah-j-sloat/
Flee by Calvin Walds, 2021, Split/Lip Press
- Purchase from publisher: https://www.splitlippress.com/flee
- Purchase from Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/flee-9781952897115/9781952897115
