Poetry Contest

Geist magazine is holding an Erasure Poem contest, deadline Aug 1, 2012. Details are here.

 

Erasure poems are poems made by erasing or blacking out words and sections from a text and reading the remaining words as the new text. This is a tactic we have been experimenting in as part of our investigation into wordsquatting. Wordsquatting allows a writer to enter and inhabit a text, to claim it, much the way a squatter moves in to an empty building.

 

Geist’s contest invites writers to experiment with an excerpt from  How Should a Person Be?, a creative non-fiction novel by Sheila Heti. The text is on the Geist site.

 

Any Thursdays Writing Collective participants interested in submitting who might require the entrance fee to be waved, are asked to please contact Elee Kraljii Gardiner.