Join us Saturday, June 14, at the Art Papers Office for a generative writing workshop led by author Julia Elliott!

About the workshop:

We will discuss how writers have challenged the distinction between “literary” and “genre” fiction over the past few decades, producing innovative work that defies traditional genre classification. We will explore a few genre conventions in detail and discuss how various writers blend multiple genres in specific fictional works. After collaboratively producing a list of genre conventions, tropes, and categories, each writer will produce an outline or introductory passage for a work of fiction that blends at least two different genres.

About the author:

Julia Elliott’s Hellions arrives in April 2025. She is also the author of the story collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch(both from Tin House). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, Granta (online), and the New York Times. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. She teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia with her husband, daughter, and five hens.