Writing Workshop: Break the Boundaries with Erasure Poetry

Explore the power and possibilities of language with author Deniz Kiy in this writing workshop on erasure as a literary and political tool. Drawing on theoretical foundations from Solmaz Sharif's essay "Erasure: The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical," we examine text materials to discover the subject positions and frameworks in which readers are placed.

The questions become: Can we break the power positions that frame us? What strength lies in redactions and palimpsests? What remains of the text's ghosts? The workshop requires no previous writing experience – all are welcome regardless of background. Please note that the text materials are in English.

About the instructor: Deniz Kiy is an award-winning author, educator, and speaker, born in 1994 and a graduate of Forfatterskolen. Deniz works across prose, poetry, hybrid forms, and conversation with a focus on home, identity, class, and minority narratives. Currently presenting the novel "Blokkene" (Gyldendal Publishing, 2025), described as magical social realism.