Writing Desire

Writing Desire: Queering the Body (Crafting Intimacy Across Genres) Birds do it, bees do it, but how do we write about sex? The tools of good sex writing will help authors across all genres, whether writing about one’s own experiences or shaping how intimacy informs story. How can we make desire on the page fresh, complex, and delicious? What traps should we avoid? How does sex inform/transform character? Prose and poetry writers will offer examples and writing exercises that explore how queer authors grapple with Eros. Workshop and discussions will provide provocative insights and show how writing can make otherwise invisible sexualities visible. Interesting sex is profound. Come, be tantalized, and leave with new fire in your work. Danielle Badra received her MFA in Poetry at George Mason University. While there she was the poetry editor of So To Speak, a feminist literary and arts journal and an intern for Split This Rock. Her poems have appeared in Outlook Springs, 45th Parallel, The California Journal of Poetics, and The Greensboro Review. Dialogue with the Dead (Finishing Line Press, 2015) is her first chapbook, a collection of contrapuntal poems in dialogue with her deceased sister.