In the Round-Trip Fiction workshops, the participants write short stories by studying off-narrative texts such as tickets, invoices, and signs. The stories are first fit into a structure, which is then deconstructed. The authors may also change throughout the process as a part of the game, in which participants also have to race against time.[…]

In the Performative Story Workshop, the participants watch a short performance and pen a fictional portrait of it, just as a painter paints a live model in his atelier. Aiming to focus on the speed and slowness of the writing process as well as the feelings of being caught off guard and improvisation, the workshop[…]

The workshop Build-a-Story in the Moonlight is inspired by “Ayışığında Çalışkur” by Haldun Taner, which is regarded as a fine example of experimental text in Turkish literature. All participants pretend to be a critic and partakes in a collective rewriting experiment with their absurd criticisms of a short story. Each participant takes turn to try[…]

The Telephone Game enables participants to experience literature independent of the written text via this old children’s game. A participant starts reading a story to another participant, and this goes on until the last participant’s story is put into writing. The last author, who imagines the narrative only through oral transmission, re-creates the story by[…]