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Breaking Binaries: A Writers Workshop led by Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews

Breaking Binaries: A Writers Workshop led by Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews

Breaking Binaries: A Writers Workshop led by Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews

Join Reading Queer, Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews for “Breaking Binaries”, a writing workshop that celebrates creative possibilities. 

Breaking Binaries explores the concept of queerness as its own form of writing though a surrealist lens. Through a number of prompts and readings, we will lead participants through the numerous ways in which queering form, the hybridization of form, and cross-genre overlaps can bring about the visibility of queer bodies, thought, and existence in the world. We will focus on concepts of space, time, and accessibility: literally and metaphorically, on the page and beyond. Through this disruption of form, together, we will craft a community space that challenges norms and resists definition. RSVP HERE. 

Date: February 15th, 2020 from 12:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Mentors: Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews
Location: University of Miami | Richter Library, University of Miami, Flex Space B @ 1300 Memorial Drive | Coral Gables, FL 33145. Map it here. 

All Reading Queer creative writing workshops are open to writers at all levels and free. We welcome the LGBTQ community + allies. 

Clayre Benzadón is currently a second-year MFA student at the University of Miami and Broadsided Press’s Instagram editor. Her chapbook, “Liminal Zenith”, is forthcoming from SurVision Books in the summer of 2020. She was recently awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for her poem “Linguistic Rewilding” and has also been previously published by The Acentos Review, Hobart, QA Poetry, SERIAL Magazine, HerStry, Poetry Breakfast, and other places. 


Caitlin Andrews (she/her/hers) is from Baltimore, Maryland. She was listed as a finalist for the 2019 Marianne Russo Award for a Novel-in-Progress and has secured fellowships from the Chesapeake Writers’ Conference. Her work is forthcoming in The New Limestone Review and has appeared in Q&A Poetry. She is fully-funded at the University of Miami, where she is obtaining an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Fiction. Caitlin is also an illustrator, hiker, and an Irish-history enthusiast.