Description
Eight Wednesdays, Oct 7–Nov 25, 5:45–7:45 p.m.
Open to all
Limited to 12 participants
Online workshop*
Due to the content in some of the exercises, this workshop is restricted to participants aged 18+.
Looking to shake up your process? Interested in breaking the rules a little? Designed to inspire unique approaches to creative writing, this workshop will help squash your inner editor and provoke your inner rebel, giving you the confidence you need to write more openly and honestly.
Over the course of eight weeks, you’ll explore the work of unconventional writers like Italo Calvino, Zsuzsi Gartner, Kelly Link, John Elizabeth Stintzi, Tamas Dobozy, and George Saunders. You’ll learn tips and techniques for producing work quickly and fearlessly while dabbling in ekphrasis, magic realism, and second-person perspective. You’ll also hone your ability to give and receive constructive feedback in a creative working environment.
This is a fun, provocative, and productive workshop that’s generated award-winning fiction and long-term friendships. It’s suitable for writers of any experience level, working in any medium or genre—from the shy beginner to the established professional. And while filled with lesson-based exercises and guided assignments, this workshop is happily (and willfully) anti-academic. Participants are not taught writing theory but are encouraged to develop their skills through the acts of reading and writing alone.
There is no submission required prior to the first session. Participants will be expected to share fiction with the group as the workshop progresses.
This is the perfect way to kickstart a project, rejuvenate your existing process, or to simply step outside of your comfort zone by experimenting with new approaches to creativity.
Come play with the weird kids of the writing world.
(One of us. One of us.)
*This workshop will take place online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants a week or so prior to the first session.
Workshop leader
Tracey Waddleton is a Newfoundland writer living in Montréal. A finalist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers and recipient of the 2015 Lawrence Jackson Writers’ Award, Waddleton’s work has been described as weird minimalist dark realism. Her first book, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious, was published in July of 2019 and won the 2020 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Tracey was the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Max Margles Writing Residency in 2020 and was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in May of 2023. She is finishing her first novel.
Facebook: @Tracey Waddleton
Twitter: @TraceyWaddleton
Instagram: @bartlebomb
