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In “Writing the Surreal,” writers FJ Bergmann, Dexter L. Booth, Alisa Slaughter, and Jane Wong, will share prose, poetry and cross-genre work that evokes the surreal, supernatural, and uncanny. In their work, the language of dreams splits, warps, and multiplies reality, disrupting realist aesthetics rooted in histories of whiteness and colonialism. After the reading, a discussion moderated by Vickie Vertiz, author of Palm Frond With Its Throat Cut, will consider the role of the surreal in literature. How can writers use the surreal as a subversive aesthetic? What can the surreal convey about the experience of racism, colonialism, and ecological disaster? How do the surreal and supernatural enliven or defamiliarize history, memory, and loss and even unsettle conceptions of what it means to be human?