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SUMMARY:Intermediate Memoir: The Art of Truth
DESCRIPTION:8 Mondays\, 6 to 8 p.m. \nMarch 21 to May 9\, 2022 \nOpen to those who have taken at least one writing workshop \nLimited to 12 participants. \n  \nMemoir\, a sub-specialty of autobiography\, is a hugely popular form of personal writing. Whereas autobiography is the preserve of celebrities and public figures\, memoir usually highlights one period or theme from the life of an ordinary individual\, someone with little or no claim to fame. Its special currency is the universality of human experience; its value is what may be learned from a so-called ordinary person. \nThis workshop on memoir is designed for people who already have some experience of workshop settings and would like to embark or have already begun to embark on a memoir project of their own. Don’t be daunted by the “intermediate” label: you need not necessarily be working on a book-length narrative. If you’re open to learning from a professional practitioner of the genre as well as from your peers\, you will almost certainly find this workshop helpful and motivating. \nAs in any workshop\, there is a great emphasis on student input. Participants will not only be presenting their own work to the group but will also be expected to give careful reading of each other’s pieces in order to provide vital critical feedback. This element of the program is equally important to the writing. About half of each session will be devoted to in-class exercises and discussion of selected material from the text named below. The rest of the time will be spent discussing participants’ submissions. \nThe text for the course is This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett\, a work that operates both as a how-to book on writing and as an exemplary series of linked memoirs/personal essays. I expect you to have purchased it ahead of time and to come to the first session prepared to discuss “Nonfiction\, an Introduction\,” and “How to Read a Christmas Story\,” the first two chapters. \nI also encourage participants to buy my Bible of clear writing: William Zinsser’s On Writing Well\, to which I refer all the time. \nTo apply\, please send an email with the following components to workshops@qwf.org no later than February 24\, 2022: \n1)      a 3-5-page double-spaced writing sample (non-fiction or fiction) that you feel is representative of your abilities. \n2)      a paragraph introducing yourself and your writing history. \nThe subject line of the message should read “For Elaine Kalman Naves.” \nQWF will notify you whether you’ve been accepted into the workshop the week of March 7. \nElaine Kalman Naves is a long-time literary journalist and the author of seven non-fiction titles\, and of a novel.  She is a two-time recipient of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction\, the winner of two Canadian Jewish Book Awards\, and of a Canadian Literary Award for Personal Essay. Her memoir Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family has been made into a documentary film. Elaine’s novel\, The Book of Faith\, was nominated for the Leacock Prize for Humour. She has led workshops at the QWF since their inception in 1998.  To find out more about Elaine\, visit her website at http://www.elainekalmannaves.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/intermediate-memoir-the-art-of-truth/2022-03-21/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Translating Quebec
DESCRIPTION:8 Mondays\, 8 to 10 p.m. \nMarch 14 to May 2\, 2022 \n  \nOpen to all. \nLimited to 12 participants. \n  \nThis workshop is aimed at anyone interested in exporting Quebec French to an English audience. Using the translator’s own experiences in the field as a springboard\, the workshop will address the challenges—and fun!—of translating both a language and a culture. Participants will be encouraged to draw on their own well of cultural knowledge\, and discussions are expected to be lively. We’ll tackle translation theory with a comparative reading of published translations; we’ll talk about the role of the church in contemporary Quebec French; we’ll take a look at media content and dip into the art of subtitling. Each week\, participants will be given short selections to translate and workshop together. The focus of the workshop will be on translating what people speak\, so don’t be afraid to make yourself heard! \n  \nParticipants will be asked to reflect upon their own relationship to English and Quebec French as they develop the linguistic flexibility to navigate the challenges of translating from one to the other. Knowledge of both languages is mandatory\, but participants are not required to have any formal translation experience. \n  \nArielle Aaronson has published nine translations including titles of fiction\, nonfiction\, young adult fiction\, and children’s literature. Her translation of Marie-Renée Lavoie’s Autopsy of a Boring Wife was longlisted for the 2021 Canada Reads book of the year. She has subtitled feature films shown across Quebec as well as content currently available on Netflix. She lives in Montreal with her husband and three children. \n  \nFacebook: Arielle Aaronson \nhttps://www.arielleaaronson.com/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/translating-quebec/2022-03-21/
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