Sarabande's ⚡ZINE LUNCH!⚡ presents "Ghost Books and Tiny Resurrections," a free workshop with Alina Stefanescu. Writers have always spoken to the dead, but our culture of planned obsolescence makes it harder to start these conversations. A ghost book is a surreal, conversation-starter with a ghost, or the penumbra of missing. You will make a tiny book that speaks with someone who is gone, a stranger or a beloved (or multiple ghosts). You don't have to know your ghost conversant personally; I've made one for John Keats. All you need is a name, few sheets of white paper, scissors, a glue stick, and a printed image.
12:00 PM EASTERN TIME OR 11:00 AM CENTRAL TIME
For this workshop you will need:
- plain white paper, folded into a zine (instructional video here: http://vimeo.com/436899767)
- a black or red pen
- several sheets of white xerox paper (or any paper you prefer to work with, the more the merrier)
- glue stick or scotch tape
- scissors
- photocopies or printouts of the ghosts you hope to meet (again, the more images, the better)
- a few pieces of red thread
- a magazine or newspaper or a book that has given you permission to cut it
Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as poetry editor for several journals, reviewer and critic for others, and Co-Director of PEN America's Birmingham Chapter. She is currently working on a novel-like creature. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.