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SUMMARY:Life Writing: An Introductory Memoir Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Open to all \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \n“Part of the art of memoir is seeing and recognizing the story itself.  Life is messy. Art gathers up the chaos and gives it form.” Dani Shapiro. \n  \nOur lives are filled with stories—experiences of joy\, heartbreak\, or transformative change. If you’ve always wanted to write down true stories from your life\, here’s a place to begin. Whether you’re writing family tales for the next generation or describing life-changing moments for a wider audience\, this workshop will help you find your voice and polish your prose.  \n      Building a writer’s toolbox of basic narrative techniques helps shape personal episodes into stories that engage readers. Sessions will include discussion of short readings and tips for getting stories from your head and heart onto the page. Each week\, two or three participants will be asked to email their drafts of a life-based story for peer feedback the following session. You will learn how to offer supportive feedback to your fellow writers in accordance with workshop guidelines. The workshop leader will provide written comments on submissions to help writers lift their first drafts to the next level.             \n  \nKaren Zey’s creative nonfiction stories\, personal essays and craft articles have been widely published in literary magazines. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net\, and featured in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books\, 2021). Karen has led writing workshops and hosted literary events at her local West Island library. She belongs to a monthly writing group whose members first met in 2013 at a QWF workshop. Karen believes that emergent writers thrive by finding community in which they can explore craft and share writerly talk. \nVisit: www.karenzey.com       \n(Twitter @zippyzey)   http://twitter.com/zippyzey
URL:https://qwf.org/event/life-writing-an-introductory-memoir-workshop/2021-10-06/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Baraka Books Launches Montreal and the Bomb
DESCRIPTION:Join Gilles Sabourin who will discuss the inside story of secret nuclear research in Montreal during WWII.\n***\nPlease R.S.V.P. at liteventrsvp@gmail.com\n***\nWINNER OF THE HUBERT REEVES 2021 AWARD FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS \nIt’s a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics\, bold chemists\, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom\, whatever the result may be. \nWith war raging in Europe\, the Allies worried about advances being made by Germans scientists. The British wanted to get a jump ahead of Hitler and the physicists working for the Third Reich. England was too close to the enemy\, so they decided to secretly establish a nuclear research laboratory in Montreal. The best scientists moved to Montreal with two goals in mind: develop an ultra-powerful bomb and find a new source of energy. What started as cooperation with the Americans instead became a race to harness the energy of the atom when Washington launched the Manhattan project. \nMontreal and the Bomb breathes new life into the exhilarating saga of European scientists secretly developing a strategic nuclear laboratory in the halls of the Université de Montréal. It’s a story peopled by leading figures of modern physics\, bold chemists\, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom\, whatever the result may be.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/baraka-books-launches-montreal-and-the-bomb/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Story Technique – A Hands-on Investigation
DESCRIPTION:Open to all \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \n“The only way … to learn to write short stories is to write them\, and then to try to discover what you have done.”  Flannery O’Connor \n  \nThis eight-week workshop will investigate the short story form. Using five truly great realist and speculative short stories as reference\, we’ll do a quick review of the basic building blocks of story-writing: things like detail\, narrative point of view\, and elements of time and place. Then we’ll investigate technical innovations with an eye to attempting something new in our own fiction. Workshop time will be split between discussing technique in published models\, and reading and discussing our own stories.  \n  \nAs soon as you have registered for this workshop\, please submit a single WORD document containing the following information to workshops@qwf.org with the subject line “For Claire Rothman”:  \n\nA short paragraph about yourself.\nA sentence about what you hope to get from this workshop.\n\n  \nStory Technique will be taught online on Zoom. You’ll need a computer and a decent online connection. We will keep things interactive\, with participants pairing up in break-out rooms for one-on-one exchanges\, and also giving short presentations to the group.  \n  \nYou will receive links to the five stories we’ll be using as models. Reading them before our start date is strongly recommended.  \n  \nClaire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer\, translator\, and fiction editor\, whose third novel\, Lear’s Shadow (2018) won the 2019 Vine Award for Jewish Canadian Fiction and was short-listed for the 2020 Jacob Isaac Segal Award. Other novels include My October (2014)\, shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award and nominated for a Scotiabank Giller prize\, and The Heart Specialist (2009)\, also nominated for the Giller. She has taught fiction workshops at McGill and Bishop’s Universities. For many years\, she taught English literature and creative writing at Marianopolis College in Montreal.  \n  \nwww.claireholdenrothman.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/story-technique-a-hands-on-investigation/2021-10-06/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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