Prose shatters the social contract between reader, writer, and author; the conventions that once partitioned “reality” from the world of the book no longer hold. Language begins to leak, entering us through a strangeness akin to a linguistic séance. Suddenly, we’re becoming character, wondering how to move in a world where Alexis Almeida and Lara Mimosa Montes, each in their own way, scramble the coordinates of the sentence. Fiction here is not driven by plot but unfolds in the mind, and through it, the body of those who read. In the process, we’re irretrievably altered.

This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.