fourteenpoems - July 23 William Rayfet Hunter

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">William will explore the rich overlaps between lyric and narrative, story and image. Guided by the genre-blurring work from writers such as Natalie Diaz, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Jay Bernard, this generative workshop invites participants to read, write, and reflect on hybrid forms. We’ll explore how storytelling can exist in fragments, how prose turns poetic, and how poetry holds narrative complexity. Whether you’re a poet seeking more story or a prose writer aching for lyricism, this space invites you to reimagine the boundaries of form.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">William Rayfet Hunter is an author, poet, essayist, and multidisciplinary facilitator whose work dwells in the abject, delicate, and messy parts of being alive. Their debut novel, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222"><em>Sunstruck, </em></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">won the #Merky Books New Writers&#039; Prize and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025. Their poetry was featured in Issue 15 of 14poems. Their writing interrogates the binaries of prose and poetry, finding a third space for hybrid story-telling that is both bodily and divine. </span></span></span></p>

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