Week 1

Intro, mini-lecture/discussion on hybrid forms, “slide show” of fragmentary forms, Writing Experiment 1 (WE1). Sharing readings. Students share WE1 online and we discuss/feedback.

Week 2

What makes this text queer?: mini-lecture/discussion on form & content. Can LESS say more – What constraints can do for our writing. Sharing readings focused on constraints. Writing Experiment 2 (WE2). Students share WE2 online and we discuss/feedback.

Week 3

Repetition and Erasure: mini-lecture/discussion: what poetry can teach us about creative nonfiction writing. Sharing readings on topic. Writing Experiment 3 (WE3). Students share WE3 online and we discuss/feedback.

Week 4

Writing as body— the life of forms in our work: mini-lecture/discussion, queer corporality in nonfiction. Sharing readings on topic. Writing Experiment 4 (WE4). Students share WE4 online and we discuss/feedback.

Week 5

Revisioning the form: the magic of the revision process: mini-lecture/discussion; revision as sculpture. Sharing readings on topic. Writing Experiment 5 (WE5). Students share WE5 online and we discuss/feedback.

Week 6

Publication for All—entering the conversation: mini-lecture/discussion. Crash-course on publishing. Finding a place for your work & creating your own canon. Sharing readings on topic. Writing Experiment 6 (WE6): Writing the pitch/query letter. Students share WE6 online and we discuss/feedback. PLUS: Where Do We Go From Here?: creating your literary community. Students will plot next steps with writing practice, developing writing community, making a plan for projects, publications, and deeper practice. Class wrap-up and closing.

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a queer, trans American writer and visual artist living in Canada. His writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The Malahat Review, Ninth Letter, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Longreads, BOMB, and The Rumpus; and in 13 anthologies, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, and the Lambda-nominated anthology, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction From Transgender Writers, which won a 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. His memoir-in-essays, Pass with Care, is available now from Dottir Press. Visit with him at www.cooperleebombardier.com FB: cooperfrickinleee Twitter: @CooperLeeB IG: cooper_lee_bombardier