Refusal as Creation, with Julia Dantas
Procrastinating, escaping, and avoiding in order to create.
Between the will and concrete action, an interval often opens up: a space made of fear, resistance, boredom, or excessive lucidity. When this happens, we may be facing technical or existential blocks. But what do the moments when the body, mind, or time simply refuse to obey the impulse to produce teach us? In this writing workshop, we will take a close look at this territory.
Julia Dantas is a writer, translator, and creative writing teacher. Author of A mulher de dois esqueletos (Dublinense, 2024), a semifinalist for the Oceanos Prize and a finalist for the Minuano and AGES Prizes; Ela se chama Rodolfo (DBA, 2022), winner of the AGES Book of the Year award and the Rio Grande do Sul Academy of Letters award; and Ruína y leveza (Dublinense, 2015), a finalist for the São Paulo Prize for Literature. She has just released the serial novel City Birds (Coragem, 2025), originally written during the pandemic for the magazine *Parêntese*. Alongside her writing, she works at Baubo, a company that helps writers develop their literary projects through workshops, mentoring, and text preparation.
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