July 17- 19
How does a text become something new? What happens when a writer treats revision not as correction, but as creative possibility? This online weekend workshop explores writing through transformation: reshaping and reimagining existing materials into unexpected forms. Participants will experiment with creative practices such as erasure, ekphrasis, imitation, collage, and adaptation. We’ll turn bad writing advice into generative prompts, discover fresh stories hidden inside old texts, and examine how revision itself can become an act of invention. Open to writers of all genres and experience levels, this workshop invites participants to approach writing as a process of making and remaking—where every text contains the possibility of another.
About the Instructor
Jonathan Cardew is the author of A World Beyond Cardboard (ELJ Editions, 2022). He hails from the Steel City but lives in the Cream City. He is not sure how this happened. A flash fiction fanatic, his stories can be found in numerous magazines and journals, including Cincinnati Review, No Contact Magazine, wigleaf, cream city review, Cleaver, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. His short-short stories have been honored in various prizes and anthologies, including the Fractured Literary Vol I Prize (winner), Best Microfiction 2021 (winner), the SmokeLong Prize for Flash Fiction (finalist), the Passages North Neutrino Prize (finalist), Bath Flash Fiction Award (shortlisted and longlisted), Best Small Fictions (finalist), Lunate Flash Fiction Award (finalist), and the Reflex Fiction Prize (longlisted). The former fiction editor for Connotation Press, he currently serves as blog editor and online workshop leader for Bending Genres. For more information and links to his published work, check out his website.