Writing Workshop: About Inquiry

ExperienceWe have to work with the inquiry — this more or less voluntarily listening “you”. Who is that? How is it constructed and animated, and what does it do about and in the text?

We must work with the addressed and devotional text written on the border between letter, poem and record, and we must ask ourselves, is a portrait not at best an elegant trick theft, at worst a predatory murder?

Referring to Iris Murdoch's concept of attention as a moral issue, we need to ask ourselves whether you can even see what you think you love. Based on authors such as Frank O'Hara, Sebastian Nathan, Edith Södergran, Forough Farrokhzad, James Schuyler and Patricia Cavalli, we must write texts in the field between the intimate and the ecstatic.

We work with both short writing exercises and concrete examples, and there will be time for conversation and sparring along the way.

About the TeacherCaroline Albertine Minor is a Danish fiction translator and writer. Born in Copenhagen in 1988, she has attended the School of Authors and has since studied Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She made her debut with the novel Pura vida in 2013. Her second book, the short story collection Blessings, came out four years later in 2017. It won, among others, the Strunge Prize and the P.O. Enquist Prize and, like her third book, The Shield of the Lobster (2020), has been sold for publication in a number of countries. In 2024 she published her first collection of poems Nivå Bugt Strandenge, and at the beginning of June this year the novel Den in love was published. The novel is a kaleidoscopic examination of a ten-year long, amicable, intellectual and erotic relationship which, at the novel's beginning, has just ended. It is a novel about fictions and ecstasy. About cleaning, writing and power — both the artist's and the mouse's.

Writing WorkshopsEvery month, Copenhagen Libraries invites you to writing workshops all over the city. The themes and trainers vary. Our writing workshops are not workshops, but stand-alone workshops of two hours in which lecturers give presentations, give participants exercises and answer their questions.

Practical InfoWriting The workshop is targeted at adults.Participation is free, but requires registration at Billetto. The writing workshop takes place at BIBLIOTEK Rentemestervej, 3rd floor, Salen. The writing workshop lasts from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. We do not provide computers, so bring your own and/or paper and pen. As a rule, there is no table space, so you probably have to sit with the computer/paper in your lap.We do not offer provisions, so bring your own water and snacks if you wish.Find your wayFrom the main entrance of the LIBRARY you can find the Hall on the 3rd floor via the main staircase or elevator.

Do you have any questions? Write to literary distributor Felix by mail: w48m@kk.dk