Writing on Writing: A Metafiction Working Group with Lena Rubin – Session 2 (July 29th & August 5th, 6:00-9:00pm, $150)

In this experimental working group, we will study and play with the technique of metafiction —tentatively defined here as “writing on writing.” As we engage with metafictional texts such as Anna Moschovakis’ Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, Renee Gladman’s My Lesbian Novel, and Zia Anger’s My First Film, we will embark on a delirious and cerebral metatextual journey that transcends the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, author and protagonist. Participants will come away with an increased understanding of metafiction as radical technique, as well as inspiration to apply it to their own art-making in the service of more capaciousness, experimentation, and play.

A note on scheduling: The group will meet during two separate sessions this summer. Each session will consist of two three-hour meetings. Different material will be covered during each session (though themes and approach will remain continuous), so you are welcome to join us for either or both sessions.

Lena Rubin is a writer, artist, and teacher based in Florence, MA. Lena’s work has been supported by the Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium, recognized with a nomination to the Best New Poets anthology in 2024, and published in Little Mirror, Second Factory, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere. Lena will complete an MFA in Prose Writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as of May 2026. More at lenarubin.tumblr.com.