Queering Plot

Informed by Aristotle’s Poetics and fine-tuned by 19th-century writer Gustav Freytag and his infamous pyramid, many writers are working with inherited ideas that effective stories should function and be arranged in very particular ways (think: the classic three-act structure). But what happens when we queer these notions? What happens when our conventions are transformed by radical reorientation, interruptions, and reconfigurations? In this craft seminar, we’ll experiment with plot and structure as a way to re-perceive the potential within our stories.