Language: Appreciation and Creation from a Creative and Linguistic Perspective
About the Event
It’s everything and everywhere and, as writers, the material of our craft. What would a writer be without a language to write in? Joins us in a series of studios designed to encourage your own experimentation with language through two specific and exciting avenues: the practice of creating artificial languages and the celebration of indigenous languages as vehicles for storytelling.
Join us to learn how to craft fictional languages that feel and operate like real ones! We’ll study how culture, history, and values shape language, then build a conlang of our own from scratch. Some basic understanding of linguistics is recommended, but curious world builders of all kinds are welcome!
Sofia Reyes
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Grace Graham
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Speakers
Sofia Reyes Valencia (She/Her) is a Mexican-American writer based in Dallas, Texas. She is a recent graduate of the Creative…
Visit Profile Grace is a literary and travel writer based out of Portland, Oregon and Budapest, Hungary. In her free time she…
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