It’s been a long road for our panel, but High Style and Misdemeanors: The Virtues and Vices of Elevated Prose, which we’d first planned to present last year in San Antonio, will broadcast March 5 as part of AWP’s 2021 virtual conference. If you’re going, please join me, Anita Felicelli, Olga Zilberbourg, Lillian Howan, and Aatif Rashid for our conversation on elevated prose—when we ask the question, “Can writers whose work concerns immigration and displacement embrace a stylistic approach that has historically been disengaged and apolitical?” We’ll look at how high style has progressed to include contemporary writers of fiction, and as a result, taken on broader and more varied meanings, and the wonderful panel will discuss high style in their own work and read excerpts.
We’re providing an outline that includes nearly the full text of our panel, available for download in our AWP chat space which opens on March 3.
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