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SUMMARY:Writeaway in France
DESCRIPTION:Is your writing missing a certain je ne sais quoi? Find it in France. \nIn this weeklong writing retreat in France\, you’ll revitalize your writing voice in the project of your choice\, with four-course dinners\, local wines and good company. The week includes writing consultations and daily writing workshops\, a visit to a farmers’ market and tastings at local wineries\, all meals\, wine and after-dinner drinks. \nWriteaways in France take place at 15th century Chateau du Pin\, a 300-acre estate in the Loire Valley\, 18 miles west of Angers\, outside the village of Champtocé-sur-Loire.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writeaway-in-france/
LOCATION:Chateau du Pin\, Champtoce-sur-Loire\, France\, 49123 Champtocé-sur-Loire\, Champtoce-sur-Loire\, France
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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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/2021-10-13/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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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/2021-10-13/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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