“‘A Whole Mood’ is an attempt to reverse-engineer those reactions, to talk about the strategies that have helped me make fiction funny, or horrific, or sometimes both. “One of my favorite reading experiences is when something gets at me at a visceral level-a good cry, a shudder, an involuntary snort of laughter,” Martinez said. His debut horror novel Extended Stay was released earlier this year. Stielstra’s workshop at the conference, “Urgency and the Personal Essay,” will make use of literary and oral storytelling traditions to help participants engage in activities that get their stories out of their heads and onto the page, generating new work and digging deeper into the material writers are already exploring.Īnother workshop, Juan Martinez’s “A Whole Mood: On Humor & Horror,” will help writers reengage with some of their earliest, most primal reading experiences, providing tricks of the trade to help them tune a piece so that it’s funnier, or scarier, or sadder. Northwestern’s Summer Writers’ Conference is an incredible place to kickstart that process.” Megan Stiesltra Photo credit Jessica Tschirki Do you know that Toni Morrison line, ‘This is precisely the time when artists go to work’? I’m here to help artists work, to find language for their ideas and experiences. “Our stories have a place in that what we see, what we’ve survived, how we show up for one another even when it’s hard. “We’re writing in a time when the world is in profound need of reimagination,” essayist Megan Stielstra ( The Wrong Way to Save Your Life) said by email. The conference is hosted by Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies MA in Writing and MFA in Prose and Poetry programs, which counts Makkai and many other renowned authors among their faculty. Online registration is available in advance and throughout the conference weekend, and participants may attend anywhere from a single class to all 10 workshops. The conference returns Friday, July 21 and Saturday, July 22, in an online format, enabling writers to join from anywhere in the world. The upcoming Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference has enabled writers across Chicagoland and beyond learn about the craft and business of writing from award-winning authors for nearly 20 years. For any writer looking for inspiration and a chance to recenter their creative life and their craft-or just get back to that essay/poem/novel they’ve been working on for years-writers’ conferences can provide invaluable support and a chance to learn from some of the best in the business. Tickets for the three-day GA and VIP events will go on sale this Friday, April 8, at 10:00 a.m. “Our team is always striving to improve and elevate the festival experience, so we can’t wait to show our fans what we have in store this summer including bigger music acts performing on bigger stages, plus more food trucks, improved amenities, and more art installations than ever before. It’s been incredible to witness our fest grow into one of the largest annual music events in the country in only four short years”, said Summer Smash Festival Director and SPKRBX Founder Berto Solorio. “Today marks an exciting milestone for Summer Smash as we unveil our biggest music lineup to date. Other notable artists include Trippie Redd, Ski Mask The Slump God, Lil Tecca, and $not, among many others, who are helping to complete the 2022 schedule. Following his recent “Album of the Year” nomination at the 2022 Grammy Awards in recognition of his efforts to Kanye West’s critically praised project Donda, enigmatic emcee Playboi Carti will help finish out the three-day festival on Sunday night.Īdditional weekend performances include cloud rap, southern hip-hop, trap, drill, West Coast, and more, with first-time Summer Smash appearances from Wiz Khalifa, Polo G, Rico Nasty, Oliver Tree, 2 Chainz, and Ohgeesy, as well as the Chicago debut of emerging rap artist Yeat. The festivities will begin on Friday with a headlining performance by Grammy Award-winning rap pioneer Young Thug, who will be joined by fellow YSL Records labelmate Gunna for the Atlanta-based rap duo’s first-ever full-set collaborative performance and will conclude on Saturday night with a performance by singer/songwriter Post Malone, who is one of the highest-selling music artists of the past quarter-century and is preparing to release his next album later this year. Summer Smash will shortly return to its regular dates in mid-June, bringing the festival’s most stacked lineup to date, packed to the brim with today’s biggest hip-hop names. Summer Smash Festival, founded by two Chicago-based music powerhouses – concert promoter SPKRBX and next-gen media business Lyrical Lemonade – has evolved into one of the country’s largest independent music events, with 90,000 attendance last summer.
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