Harnessing AI to Develop Your Writing

Can we make use of AI and nature itself to help our poetry and prose interpret ways into thinking about climate change and sustainability. We'll see how we can make AI do the hard work but keep creativity in our own hands. We'll look at various short forms in prose and poetry: eg flash fiction, prose poetry, haibun, and sonnets and use Jane Alison's idea of story telling being circular and explosive rather than an arc. And we'll use the forms nature offers us. Join OCA tutor Liz Cashdan for this event.

As Jane Alison writes, nature offers us other patterns than arcs and waves:

"Patterns other than the wave, though, are everywhere. Here are the ones Stevens calls “nature’s darlings.” Spiral: think of a fiddlehead fern, whirlpool, hurricane, horns twisting from a ram’s head, or a chambered nautilus. Meander: picture a river curving and kinking, a snake in motion,…