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Some stories demand that we break or construct language in new ways. In this workshop we will be reading and writing such stories, from the odd fables of Franz Kafka to the experiments of the OULIPO (Workshop for Potential Literature). We will see how writers before us have pushed the boundaries of form and sense to create enduring works that challenge and defy conventions, then apply some of their methods and madness to our own stories.
David Dykes was born in the 60s outside of the factory town of Rockford Tennessee. His father, a local journalist, and mother, a speech therapist, instilled in him a deep appreciation and anxiety about language which culminated in a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, after which he moved to San Miguel de Allende Mexico to work various jobs from bar bouncer to babysitter, later co-founding a successful private school. In the 90s he moved to Texas to complete a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Texas State University.
Since then he has worked at both the University of Tennessee and the University of New Orleans teaching writing and literature between longer bouts of teaching at the San Miguel high school he helped found. He has worked as an editor for small literary magazines, including the 1980s iteration of The San Miguel Writer. He has found work editing novels and contributing to scripts and screenplays, has taught at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference, participated in local storytelling and poetry events, and continues to teach young folks at the Victoria Robbins School in San Miguel.
