Craft Intensive: Linguistic Noise - Writing Against Quiet (Advanced Writing Workshop) Poetry & Prose (Austin)
Join the East Austin Writing Project’s November Craft Intensive. This month’s theme is: Unbounded Poetics
In this advanced writing workshop, we’ll read excerpts from Anne Carson's critical essay The Gender of Sound, which examines long-held ideas about the female voice. We’ll also explore Christine Sun Kim’s visual sound art, which treats sound as something we can feel and experience, not only hear, and read an interview in which she describes her work questioning the politics of who gets heard.
Together, we’ll write from the wolfthicket vocal space, treating linguistic sound as a vehicle that breaks and redefines rules.
Craft Elements:
Noise as poetic material: cries, stammers, laughter, and other sounds language usually leaves out, used as deliberate parts of a poem
Syntax as resistance: breaking, stretching, and rearranging the sentence to refuse the order we expect from it
Sound you can see: notation, visual scores, typography and layout as ways to make sound show up on the page
Advanced section. Please review our guidelines and submit a brief writing sample before your first visit and before attending your first event. Submission form link
Teaching Artist: Marissa Ayala
Marissa Ayala is an Austin-based writer, researcher, and artist. She is the recipient of the 2026 In Cahoots writing residency, the 2025 Puffin Foundation environmental artist advocacy grant, and held a 2025 residency at Chulitna Lodge in Lake Clark, Alaska.
She is the founder of the East Austin Writing Project, a 2026 recipient of the City of Austin Elevate grant. Marissa's work appears in Poets & Writers magazine, Fugue, TELEPHONE, Pen + Brush, and more.
She earned a BA from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, an MFA in Fiction from The New School, and a M.S. from Hunter College.
East Austin Writing Project - a literary arts community offering Poetry Club, Craft Intensives, Critique writing groups, and Subculture Lit book club in Austin, TX.
This project is supported in part by the Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment.
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