Description
Eight Tuesdays, Oct 1-Nov 19, 6-8pm
Open to all
Limited to 12 participants
Hybrid Workshop*
Do you want to write poetry but have trouble getting started? Are you interested in stepping outside of your comfort zone to generate new pieces? This workshop will help you to develop your voice as a poet by kindling your creativity with the support of a variety of writing tools, prompts, poetic forms, and other techniques.
In each session, participants will be presented with some combination of readings, writing constraints, or guided prompts. These will include assignments to write new pieces using different poetic forms including ekphrastic poetry (verse inspired by visual art), erasure/blackout poetry, OULIPO games, centos, prose poems, and haiku. Participants will be encouraged to share their writing results and will have a chance to discuss each other’s poems.
By the end of this 8-week generative poetry writing workshop, participants will have a chance to produce a portfolio of approximately 8 new pieces of creative work.
*This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (Room 3, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec) with up to 2 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person because of distance or disability. By default, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. I If you can’t attend in person and would like to request a virtual slot, contact Riley at riley@qwf.org and wait for confirmation before registering. Please do not register until after you receive confirmation that there is a virtual spot for you.
