A NoMaterial Symposium – An AWP Offsite Event [In-Person Only]
$0–25 Sliding scale donation (no one turned away)
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Northwest Film Forum and Black Sun Lit present an AWP offsite event: a NoMaterial Symposium where Carlos Lara and Brian Amsterdam (Ceremonial Abyss), plus some of their current friends take over the NWFF lobby with spontaneous readings, a mini-lecture, and noise overall.
Bios:
Brian Amsterdam
Brian Amsterdam (Ceremonial Abyss) is an ambient, hardware and techno producer based in the Northwest. Brian and Carlos Lara have an ongoing collaboration as poet and sound sculptor.
Losarc Raal
Losarc Raal is a writer and editor originally from Varna, Bulgaria. He is the author of the chapbooks: [SELF-SELECTIONS] (Trainwreck Press, 2021), The Poetry of Carlux Carluxlax (Reverse Catfish, 2022), and The Adverse Keys (Spiral Editions, 2022). A pamphlet, Dead or Alive (The Creative Writing Department), was published in 2022. He was tyrant over the poetry and arts journal NOMATERIALISM (2020–2022). He is currently composing a book of prose poems entitled NOTHING. He has lived in Brooklyn, Greece, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia, and he currently resides with his wife and sons in Los Angeles, CA.
About AWP
2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair
March 8–11, 2023
Seattle Convention Center (705 Pike St.)
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary conversation and celebration. The AWP Conference & Bookfair has always been a place of connection, reunion, and joy, and we are excited to see the writing community come together again in Seattle, Washington in 2023.