The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate William John Wither, MFA. William’s graduate thesis is a post-obliteration novel entitled I guess this is death.
William came to the School of Creative Writing to work through form as an act of triangulation. How does the poetic frame the heat of our lives? How can the thin veil of fiction moor the reader, allowing them to accept new realities? How can the nodes of an essay offer an accumulation of being? With a background in futures consulting, ludology and design, William looks to how the visual can operate as scaffolding for the textual. To date, his work has been published in The Puritan, Exile Quarterly, Tales to Terrify, antilang, and has been a finalist for the CVC Short Fiction Competition while being nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
William’s thesis is a post-obliteration novel entitled I guess this is death. In it, an unnamed narrator attempts to codify their existence through a book given to them by an old colleague—that of the fictive Photos of Grass by Amelia Walsh. The narrator flails towards being, wondering whether life can enact ‘a happening,’ as they travel from Brighton to Mexico to an open-air gallery situated in the space between dreaming and waking. I guess this is death is for fans of Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hiroko Oyamada.
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