11 episodes

A freeform channel for pop-up workshops, guided writing prompts, and occasional conversations from the Pelagic School, a resource for navigating the process of getting writing written.

Pelagic Radio Karinne Keithley Syers

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A freeform channel for pop-up workshops, guided writing prompts, and occasional conversations from the Pelagic School, a resource for navigating the process of getting writing written.

    Pelagic Radio: The Lost Conversation, an interview with Sara Farrington

    Pelagic Radio: The Lost Conversation, an interview with Sara Farrington

    An interview with Sara Farrington, author of The Lost Conversation: interviews with an enduring avant-garde, published by 53rd State Press.

    https://53rdstatepress.org/Farrington-The-Lost-Conversation

    Discussed: art making, survival, capitalism, generational transmissions, what spaces are there, fifth graders and Beckett

    • 1 hr 12 min
    Map Room 9: Monsters

    Map Room 9: Monsters

    The ninth installment of the Map Room builds monsters for story uses, out of forces moving at the edge region of a story.

    Find the images described and more at the post of this installment here: https://pelagicschool.net/workshops/map-room/map-room-9-edges-uneasiness-monsters/
    You will need a free library card to access it.

    The book the map models come from is Terra Forma: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/terra-forma

    • 16 min
    Map Room 8: Folds

    Map Room 8: Folds

    Installment Eight of the Map Room takes up a series of wrong behaviors in the mapping: folds, joins, portals, passages, distortion, scale, and wormhole. Considerations of each of these variables leads to a mapping prompt, as a resource for story writing. More at https://pelagicschool.net

    • 17 min
    Map Room 7: Speculative Generator

    Map Room 7: Speculative Generator

    The seventh installment of The Map Room is a long guided mapping exercise that creates speculative overlays on the space you are in to imagine a world in deep time and abundant simultaneity. A few writing prompts follow.
    Go to https://pelagicschool.net for more information.
    Written & created by Karinne Keithley Syers / Pelagic School

    • 34 min
    Map Room 6: A Narrative Atlas

    Map Room 6: A Narrative Atlas

    Installment 6 of the Map Room considers the idea of the narrative atlas, working from ideas from Denis Wood's Everything Sings. Find an excerpt from Denis Wood's book at:
    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/Everything_Sings_Excerpt_and_Intro.pdf
    Pelagic Radio is written and created by Karinne Keithley Syers. More information at pelagicschool.net

    • 21 min
    Map Room 5: Mapping Story Shapes

    Map Room 5: Mapping Story Shapes

    The fifth installment of the Map Room looks at story shapes as guides to structuring stories, and leads to a series of prompts for deriving new story shapes from your drawings. To see the images referenced in this episode, go to https://pelagicschool.net/the-map-room/
    Written & scored by Karinne Keithley Syers

    • 20 min

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