Soliloquy and Monologue
by Camille Kingué
18th April 2026
11am - 2pm
11am - 2pm
Writing Workshop
The workshop will focus on the soliloquy and monologue forms, and more specifically on the question of address in poetry. It will explore the formulation of an “I” in dialogue with an invisible “you.”
The corpus of texts used will mainly consist of female, queer, and/or racialized authors (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Star Finch, Jenny Holzer, Claudia Rankine).
Taking the framework an enunciative situation from a minoritized subject position, we will look at the way they move back and forth between the interior and the exterior, in a constant dialogue with norms with which one negotiates.
The aim, through writing, is to highlight the inherent presence of the Other in the way certain subjects articulate themselves. Whether the Other is summoned for confrontation or a diffuse but violent presence, we will look into different strategies to address it (withdrawal, submission, irony...). Participants will be invited to produce a text in response to these.
Duration: 3 hours
Languages : English and French
Pay what you can — suggested donation 8 euros. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Please register at contact_aujus@pm.me
BIO
Camille Kingué (b. 1994) is a bilingual writer and a freelance translator from English to French, based in Paris.
Her work as a writer and translator explores intimacy, the body, and affect through the lenses of sexuality, gender, and racialization. Her texts have been published in fanzines: Sex I (FR/EN) was released in March 2024 by How To Become; Sex 2 (EN) followed in October 2024 via If A Leaf Falls Press, and its French translation, Sexe 2 (FR), was published in December 2025 by Dépense Défensive. She has also contributed poems and other poetic texts to journals including Alei Journal, Suckcess, and The Tongue Ring, as well as music and contemporary art reviews for Musique Journal, Audimat, Arcane, and Spike.