Queerness, form and time : a dialogue through case studies from creative writing practice

This creative writing research takes as its basis both the plurality of time and the plurality of queerness and attempts to locate a hybrid form that allows six creative writers to explore the relationship between their individual practices and time: bringing them together into a reflexive space that allows them to be read together while holding them apart. By investigating an area of making and thinking composed of individual strategies, questions, challenges, contradictions, problems, logics, the writers discover in, first, the discrete space of the case study and, second, the critical space of the collaborative essay that queerness and time may meet on the shared ground of form; that form is a site for both creative and political/representational activity; and that a multiplicity of times and spaces, particular to each researcher and articulated specifically here, is not just the medium in which the work is made but fundamental to its content, elaboration, potentiality, and reception.