2021 - Helen Hofling Wins Arts & Letters’ 2021 Unclassifiable Contest
Helen Hofling’s series of visual poetry “ARMORY” has been selected by Michael Martone
as the winner of Arts & Letters’ 2021 Unclassifiable Contest.
The Unclassifiable Contest is an annual contest for “unclassifiable works: works that
blur, bend, blend, erase, or obliterate genre and other labels.” “ARMORY,” a series
of collage/poems/schematics that take inspiration from medieval armories, will be
published by Arts & Letters in Spring 2022.
Judge’s comments on “ARMORY”: The “author” is dead–no news there–but the “writer” and the writing endures. But what
does the writer do now when the writer writes with this incredible powerful typesetting
machine connected to the world wide web? Well, you do this. You begin to collapse
the categories of writer, editor, typesetter, publisher, designer, illustrator, printer.
Long live the media artist, the artist mediator, the rewritten “righter.” –Michael Martone
Links to announcement:
https://artsandletters.gcsu.edu/unclassifiable-contest-2021-winner-and-finalists
https://twitter.com/ArtsLettersGC/status/1453475838813425674?s=20
