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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Residency 2022 | Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:This workshop-based program focuses on providing structured support for new Young Adult (YA) & Children’s Literature writers wanting to improve their writing skills. Two faculty\, Katherena Vermette and Tanya Boteju will work closely with 7 participants each\, offering new writers the opportunity to work on a portion of a manuscript in a workshop setting with editorial faculty. \nThe program will help writers build their critical vocabulary\, making them better critics of their own and others’ work. Participants will also learn more about the craft of writing\, and about the conventions and possibilities for innovation in YA and Children’s Literature. \nWhat does the program offer?\nThis 13-day residency provides thematic teaching from faculty members\, Q&A sessions\, public events\, and one-on-one workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas\, experiences\, and obstacles that participants may be encountering with their new manuscripts and emerging practices. \nIn addition to a single room\, and a small private studio\, you will be surrounded by a community of artistic peers with the opportunity to attend inspiring talks\, performances\, and meet with guest faculty to consult on your work.  \nWho should apply?\n\nAny new writer of YA or Children’s Literature interested in structured feedback from faculty and fellow participants will benefit from this program.  The program is open to writers with no publications\, a few publications\, or even a first book.  \nWriters from all backgrounds\, and all gender identities and expressions are encouraged to apply. \n\nApplication Deadline: July 06\, 2022 \n*Financial Aid of up to 100% of tuition fee and 50% of meal and accommodation fee is available for this program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/emerging-writers-residency-2022-banff-centre-for-arts-and-creativity/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Write Over Here: Screenwriting Residency - Fall 2022 | Banff Centre
DESCRIPTION:Write Over Here is a three-week hybrid screenwriting residency\, that offers participants the opportunity to focus on tools to create the time and space to write from home and at Banff Centre through online and in person programming. \nIntermixed with faculty to support their practice as required\, participants will meet with the cohort online for the first week\, and on campus for the following two weeks. These will include daily gatherings\, where we share readings\, workshops\, deeper discussions around process\, and Q&A sessions.  \n*Financial Aid of up to 100% of tuition fee\, meal and accommodation fee is available for this program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-over-here-screenwriting-residency-fall-2022-banff-centre/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Author Interview: Method and Art
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nThis two-part workshop will start with a discussion on the methods involved in a lively and thought-provoking author interview. Then\, working in pairs\, participants will prepare and present an interview\, to be followed by an evaluation by the group\, with a focus on constructive criticism. \n\n\n\nPart One – Morning Session – The Method \n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:00 Discussion \n\n\n\nhow to structure and focus an interviewhow to prepare your questionshow to introduce your guestthe interviewer’s rolehow to deal with questions from the audienceinterviewing several authors at onceshort examples on video of various author interviews–what works and what doesn’t.\n\n\n\n11:00-12:00 – Preparing the interview \n\n\n\nWorkshop participants will break up into pairs and decide on their interview topics; i.e.\, the participants will plan to interview each other about a book they have written\, or about their career as a writer\, or about the joys and challenges of the literary life\, or some other related topic. \n\n\n\nParticipants will pre-interview their “teammate” to prepare for the actual 5- to 7-minute interview that will take place during the afternoon session. Participants will finalize the line of questioning for their interviews. \n\n\n\nPart Two – Afternoon Session – Putting Theory Into Practice \n\n\n\n1:o0 – 3:30 Participants take turns conducting their interviews. On each team\, Person A interviews Person B\, after which Person B interviews Person A. For example\, with 8-10 participants\, there will be 4-5 teams\, and a total of 8-10 interviews. \n\n\n\nAfter each interview\, there will be a 5-minute discussion amongst all participants\, with a focus on constructive criticism. Participants will be encouraged to use a method in which they stress the positive\, identifying\, for example\, three aspects of the interview that were successful and one aspect that might be improved or done differently. (Research suggests that once people have received at least three positive comments they are more open to constructive criticism.) \n\n\n\n3:30-4:00 pm At the end of the afternoon\, there will be a general discussion summing up what the workshop participants learned\, what techniques worked\, what didn’t\, what they would do differently. \n\n\n\nShelley Pomerance is the host of Writers Unbound\, a program about Montreal writers and their books\, on MAtv. She has been a programmer with Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival and for many years was a presence on CBC Radio as a host and arts reporter. \n\n\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelley.pomerance/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-author-interview-method-and-art/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop by John Wall Barger -- Atwater Library
DESCRIPTION:Poetry about Places: Workshop by John Wall Barger\nOct 15 | Saturday |  2-4pm\n$40 each (includes copy of Barger’s latest book\, Smog Mother)\nAtwater Library (1200 Atwater Ave\, Westmount)\nMontreal\, Quebec \nIt’s tricky to write about the places we visit. Travel poems come with a flood of unfortunate expectations: sentimentality\, clichés\, souvenirs\, and so on. How can we refrain from being tourists in our own poems? How can we allow a place to be “real” and “authentic” without projecting our expectations onto it? How\, for example\, could Paris be anything other than romantic\, city of love\, beautiful\, historical … ? How can we convey\, through poems\, the complicated\, nuanced\, wild\, deeply personal experience of standing on a street in another city? In this session\, you’ll learn some skills that will help you approach this much-trodden road with freshness and innovation. We’ll look at some terrific examples\, and you’ll write a few poems of your own. \nJohn Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, ZYZZYVA\, The Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems\, Smog Mother\, came out with Palimpsest Press in Fall 2022. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-workshop-by-john-wall-barger-atwater-library/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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