CRAFT WORKSHOP
defiant forms: A generative cross-genre workshop
with Matty Layne Glasgow
Friday, April 24 | 10 AM – 12 PM
Ames Writers Collective, Fifth Street Writers (612 Fifth Street)
In this generative workshop, we’ll consider and draw inspiration from approaches that delight in the blending and blurring of genre and tradition. Bring a draft of a piece in any genre that feels stuck for one reason or another, and we’ll try our hand at creating our own novel forms that play with mimetic representation of the systems our work engages with and, potentially, seeks to deconstruct. Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series Event.
This event is FREE and open to all writers and non-writers. For more information, click here.
Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of the award-winning poetry collection deciduous qween, published by Red Hen Press in 2019. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Charleston where he teaches poetry and nonfiction. A 2022-2025 Black Earth Institute Fellow, Glasgow co-edited the About Place Journal’s “Strange Wests” and served as Editor of Quarterly West, as well as the coordinator of the Wasatch Writers in the Schools program in Salt Lake City.
A graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State, Glasgow also received a PhD in Creative Writing & English Literature from the University of Utah where he was awarded a Vice Presidential Fellowship, a Jeff Metcalf Humanities in the Community Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center. Matty’s poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Houston Public Media, Kenyon Review, the Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
This program is sponsored by the Pearl Hogrefe Fund, Department of English, MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment, Ames Writers Collective, Fifth Street Writers, Iowa State University Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).
