Craft Intensive: Wayward Kin - Becoming as Method (Advanced Writing Workshop) Poetry & Prose (Austin)

Join the East Austin Writing Project’s November Craft Intensive. This month’s theme is: Wayward Kin - Becoming as Method.

In this advanced writing workshop, we'll read excerpts from Joshua Whitehead’s Making Love with the Land alongside heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’s Wayward Creatures and explore migratory becoming as a creative method: the self, the body, and the text always in motion, crossing borders between species, forms, and worlds.

Craft Elements:

Hybrid forms: mixing essay, memoir, lyric, and theory so form can stray and recombine

Metamorphosis as image: where the body becomes land, and the self becomes creature

Migratory becoming: following bodies, languages, and texts as they travel and change

Teaching Artist: Marissa Ayala

Marissa Ayala is an Austin-based writer, researcher, and artist. She is the recipient of the 2026 In Cahoots writing residency, the 2025 Puffin Foundation environmental artist advocacy grant, and held a 2025 residency at Chulitna Lodge in Lake Clark, Alaska.

She is the founder of the East Austin Writing Project, a 2026 recipient of the City of Austin Elevate grant. Marissa's work appears in Poets & Writers magazine, Fugue, TELEPHONE, Pen + Brush, and more. She earned a BA from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, an MFA in Fiction from The New School, and a M.S. from Hunter College.

East Austin Writing Project  - a literary arts community offering Poetry Club, Craft Intensives, Critique writing groups, and Subculture Lit book club in Austin, TX.

This project is supported in part by the Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment.

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