#pinkiuspieacus

Heidi and I are going to do a thing.

If you're a writer--or even if you don't consider yourself a writer--you should read on. The past couple days, we've been at the David R. Collins Writers' Conference, and in one of the workshops with Matthew Guenette (who is awesome and you should definitely look him up) he was talking about social and cultural poetry and then we got talking about poetry in context--not necessarily what the kind of context people think of when they first hear the word, but context as in out in the real world. Like people putting poems in newspapers, between pages at bookstores, taping them on buildings or fire hydrants or at bus stops, things like that. And we also talked about collaborative poetry and putting some writing up somewhere and coming back to it later to see if anyone's added to it, etc, just super cool stuff like that.

We are also taking another workshop called Literary Collage and it's led by Erin Bertram. (Also awesome, check her out.) "Literary collage" is a term she invented, and it's basically going a step further than "hybrid literature". Not gonna explain it, google it if you're curious, though it's basically self-explanatory.

And so our idea was born.

We want to make a large-scale (as in sources from a wide variety of places) literary collage to put out into the world--and maybe even several if we get a lot of submissions! The details aren't all figured out yet, but if you're interested, message me a few lines of your own writing. It doesn't have to be poetry or a sentence of fiction or anything specific--it can be whatever you want! Maybe type up a receipt (I once made a receipt of when Lucifer fell and took down a third of Heaven's angels--get creative!!) or make up a ticket stub for somewhere, or part of a form of some sort, or a transcript, or list, or a made up website, or whatever! (Of course it can be a few lines of poetry, too.)

No deadline established yet, and also no limit, so just send them as you think of them. (Also, if it's something more visually-based (ticket stub, receipt, etc.) you  can submit it.) And credit will of course be given where credit is due, but it can be given however you wish--your url, your name (and state to show how spread out this is??), or anonymous or whatever you want!

But what the end product(s) will be is a literary collage of all your lovely words! And it will go up somewhere it can be easily read by passersby or bathroom-goers or pedestrians or anyone who sees it, really. Location is to-be-determined, and it'll probably depend somewhat on what the finished product is like. (Maybe this project will develop further and the literary collages will travel to different places...)

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