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Read moreEndre Farkas
Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting & Playwriting
Endre Farkas has been writing for over forty years and taught at the CEGEP level for over thirty. He has given workshops, lectured and performed across Canada, the USA, Europe and South America. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Italian and Turkish. In 2012, he (along with Carolyn Marie Souaid) won the Berlin International Poetry Film Festival Prize. Previously, he won the CBC (Quebec) spoken word prize twice and was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize for poetry. He is a dynamic teacher and performer who can animate students to participate. For more information about his work visit his website: www.endrefarkas.net.
Daniel Allen Cox
Fiction, Nonfiction
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023. His four novels have been nominated for the Lambda Literary, Ferro-Grumley, and ReLit awards, and Mouthquake was one of twenty-seven works selected for inclusion in QuébeQueer, a fifty-year overview of queer cultural production in Quebec. Daniel’s essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere, and have been recognized by Best Canadian Essays, The Best American Essays, and the Canadian National Magazine Awards. Daniel’s work deals with themes of queer coming-of-age, exploring the underground life of cities, navigating art and literary scenes, embracing stuttering and other types of unusual language patterns, and freeing oneself from religious and cult indoctrination. He has been a creative writing instructor and mentor for many years, and has spoken at Université de Montréal, McGill University, Concordia University, Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago, Wilfrid Laurier University, and California College of the Arts.
Daniel offers three workshops for a CEGEP setting:
- Starting a Work of Short Nonfiction: Find the best container for your material and write first drafts freely to get your project off the ground.
- Reading to Be a Writer: Survey the landscape of the literary journals that will have an impact on your career and learn to be judicious with what you devote your reading time to.
- Finding My Voice As a Writer: I’ll talk about my path to finding my voice as a queer writer who stutters, and we’ll talk about ways to find your own frequency
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Read moreHow to Edit Your Own Prose Like a Professional Editor
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Read moreFall 2022 QWF Workshops Are Now Open for Registration!
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