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SUMMARY:Fempocalypse 2022 Neo-Stalgia: Imagining Better Futures Together
DESCRIPTION:The Nightwood Innovators are producing a week-long digital cabaret-style show\, virtual art gallery\, and silent auction\, with all proceeds donated to Water First\, exclusively working with Indigenous communities. Different artists’ work explores how they are dreaming of the past and envisioning new futures.
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SUMMARY:Write to Thrill
DESCRIPTION:8 Thursdays\, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. \nMarch 17-May 5 \n  \nOpen to all. \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \nHave you always wanted to write a thriller? Need help completing one you’ve already started? This is the workshop for you! Whether it’s a domestic noir or the CIA is chasing down your main character\, we’ll spend eight weeks together working on plot\, characterization\, twists\, dialogue\, prose\, and pacing. By the end of the workshop you’ll have a solid foundation for your novel. Participants should come to the workshop with a premise for their thriller in mind. After the first session\, two participants a week\, if they’re comfortable\, will receive feedback on their writing from the instructor and the other class participants \n  \nCatherine McKenzie is the Globe & Mail Bestselling author of 13 novels\, including I’ll Never Tell\, Fractured\, and The Good Liar. She lives in Montreal\, Quebec\, where she writes full time after having retired from practicing law after twenty years.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-to-thrill/2022-04-07/
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SUMMARY:Forms and Frames – A Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:8 Thursdays\, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. \nMarch 17-May 5 \n  \nOpen to all. \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \n  \nWhat’s the difference between poetry and prose? One big difference is form—the shapes and sounds a poem makes using line breaks\, rhyme\, alliteration\, and a whole host of other devices. But while it’s a defining component of poetry\, form can seem complex and intimidating. Even the most experienced poets may still struggle to distinguish a Pantoum from a Villanelle or accurately parse the metre of a poem. \n  \nThankfully\, a complete mastery of form is not necessary to enjoy—or write!—poetry. A basic understanding of form\, however\, can give the poet a whole new set of tools with which to make their meaning clear. \n  \nFor many poets\, the artificial and sometimes arbitrary rules of formal poetry signal a loss of choice. This workshop aims to show that\, on the contrary\, the adoption of a form reveals several private decisions around values\, preferences\, and intent. The “rules” of a form can be followed faithfully\, but they can also be rejected\, subverted\, or broken completely. Those decisions are matter of personal expression\, not unlike subject or image\, and allow the poet another layer of individuality and disclosure. \n  \nForms and Frames focuses on artificial forms as a means of expression\, subversion\, and creative generation. Particpants will discuss and practice a small selection of artificial forms from a diverse range of traditions\, including the Pantoum\, the Haibun\, and the Pas-de-Deux. These forms have been chosen specifically because they have (in the Anglo-Canadian context\, at least) no set metre. While some small discussion of metre may be necessary during the course of the workshop\, no prior knowledge of\, or experience with\, forms or metres is necessary! Through discussion of these and other artificial forms\, guided exercises\, free-writing\, and voluntary critique\, participants of all experience and skill-levels will discover how to make the frame work for them. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPatrick O’Reilly is a writer from Renews\, NL\, now living in Montreal. A former poetry editor of The Antigonish Review\, his poetry and criticism has appeared in Numéro Cinq\, untethered\, Maisonneuve and others\, as well as In/Words Press’s 30 under 30 anthology. Patrick’s first chapbook\, A Collapsible Newfoundland\, was released by Frog Hollow Press in 2020.
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