I spent the weekend in Zoomland with a group of really brilliant practitioners musing on the affordances of sleep and dreaming in our writing. We took the opportunity to discuss chronotypes, insomnia, hypnagogic poetics, oceanic feeling, nocturnes, dwelling and dreamwork among other things. Everyone has a relationship to sleep and what I love about these workshop spaces is the way so much is unlocked by paying attention to the liminal moments in the day. I really enjoyed hearing about how modifications to one’s writing environment (turning the lights off, going outside, changing the light temperature on your writing device) an affect what we write. We thought about darkness as discovery. We considered the lullaby. Sleep as a transformative force, sleep as anti-capitalist, sleep as a process of (un)becoming, sleep as trip and trance. Sleep and caregiving, sleep and safety, sleep and homemaking, sleep and the more-than-human.
Thanks to everyone who attended ❤
More events and work on sleep & somnolence will be announced in the new year!
For now, you can check out other Beyond Form Creative Writing opportunities here: https://www.beyondformcreativewriting.com
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