Women Surrealists: Ekphrastic Inspiration from Around the World

Women Surrealists: Ekphrastic Inspiration from Around the World
A poetry workshop with Lorette C. Luzajic

When: May 8, 2024
6:00pm-8:30pm (UK Time)
Where: Online (Zoom)
Fee: 25 GBP

Description:

Women artists from around the globe have been exploring subconscious, imaginative, fantastical, esoteric, and mythological worlds since the birth of surrealism in the 1920s. Sometimes they were overshadowed by the male voices of the movement. Often, they outshone them. Discover the lives and creative legacy of powerful, original visionaries like Leonor Fini, Gertrude Abercrombie, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Afarin Sajedi, and Marina Pallares. Learn how the creative work of these women can inspire and influence our stories and poems.

Lorette C. Luzajic reads, writes, publishes, edits, and teaches small fictions, prose poetry and CNF or hybrid forms. She has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in journalism, but has always focused on creative writing and the study of art history. Her work has been published in hundreds of journals, taught in schools and workshops, and translated into Urdu and Spanish. For many years, she wrote a column for Good Food Revolution, pairing Wine and Art. Today she writes about culinary lore in the monthly Eat Play Rove, often centering food in visual art in her stories. She was selected for Best Small Fictions 2023 and 2024. She has been nominated several times each for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Food Writing. She has been shortlisted for Bath Flash Fiction and The Lascaux Review awards. Her collections include The Rope Artist, The Neon Rosary, Pretty Time Machine and Winter in June. Lorette is the founding editor of The Ekphrastic Review, a journal of literature inspired by art, running for almost nine years, and the brand-new prose poetry journal, The Mackinaw. Lorette is also an award-winning mixed media artist, with collectors in more than 40 countries so far.