Writers on Memory, Language & the Power of the Unconscious

<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">How can we use negative spaces in fiction to engage with readers’ imaginations? How are memory and trauma passed onto us through language? How do we become more than the stories we tell ourselves?</p><p class="p1" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.katiekitamura.com/"><strong>KATIE KITAMURA</strong></a> (Author, <em>Audition, Intimacies</em>) emphasizes that a book is created in <strong>collaboration with the reader</strong>, using <strong>negative spaces</strong> in the narrative structure to allow for reader interpretation, paralleling the space between audience and actor in performance.</p><p class="p1" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/paul-lynch-mia-funk"><strong>PAUL LYNCH</strong></a> (Booker Prize-winning Novelist, <em>Prophet Song</em>) discusses the <strong>richness and slipperin...