Biography
Bridget Brewer is a writer, performer, artist, and collaborator living in Austin, Texas. While in residence at Surel’s Place, Bridget Brewer planed to continue work on Relic, an “illuminated-manuscript-performance novel” that explores traumatic memory, queer theater, and the history of Catholic relic worship. Relic questions fears of hybridity and engages in poetics to embrace the unknown. Body horror, hell, personal apocalypses, witchcraft, monsters, textures of hybridity: these are her wet, fungal artistic concerns. Through research and patient practice, she has cultivated them carefully into work that is part performance, part fiction, part poem.
Brewer currently dedicates herself to teaching fiction and the literary arts in nontraditional spaces, and she has taught with women’s collectives, feminist boxing collectives, public schools, LGBTQIA+ youth organizations, and homeless shelters. She has worked artistically with people of all educational and personal backgrounds. Currently, she serves as Fiction Co-Editor of Nat. Brut. Her work has been featured in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, The Collagist, Threadcount, Black Sun Lit, and other literary publications, and has been performed most notably at The Hideout Theatre and Wage House Theatre.
WORKSHOP
I AM THE GHOST: WRITING HAUNTING CHARACTERS
Surel’s Place Writer-in-Residence Bridget Brewer taught at the workshop that combining writing and theater. Participants learned how to listen and write for haunting characters through both writing and acting exercises. At the end of the three hours, workshop participants performed for the rest of the class (and the ghosts conjured during the afternoon).
WORKSHOP
AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY COMICS
An introduction to the new literary/visual genre of poetry comics, in this workshop, Surel’s Place Writer-in-Residence Bridget Brewer excavated “the third space” of language that emerges when poetry and comics are placed within the same sphere. Samples were used to inspire participants in the creation of their own poetry comics.
READING/PERFORMANCE
RELIC
Relic, an “illuminated-manuscript-performance novel,” explores traumatic memory, queer theater, and the history of Catholic relic worship. Relic questions fears of hybridity and engages in poetics to embrace the unknown.
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