Rhodes University’s MA in CREATIVE WRITING invites you to participate in an online lecture by our Mellon Scholar-in-residence, MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON.

In innovative fiction writing, it is important to transcend one's personal reading and writing preferences, one's opinions, in order to be apprenticed by divergent film and literature—aesthetic achievements, visceral, poetic, avant-garde works centred around objective reality, subjective life, ecstatic confession and play! The works of art that tend to affect us deeply are the ones that might have wearied us, challenged us, or even greatly disturbed us. But in time, upon further reflection, we find them rather informative—and even illuminating: our diverse experiences require divergent formats! In this lecture, I will expand on these themes, and will share my own experience in self-exploration and "unselving," which is to die every day to oneself.


Bio:

Marc Anthony Richardson is an artist and novelist from Philadelphia. He is author of Year of the Rat, winner of an American Book Award, and the recipient of a Creative Capital Award, a PEN America grant, a Sachs Program grant, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom details:

https://zoom.us/j/93264978947?pwd=bnNycHhGNUtJeWloZVZUNVF5a3Vxdz09

Meeting ID: 932 6497 8947

Passcode: 616287