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SUMMARY:(Un)broken: Leveraging the Poetic Line
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\nWith few exceptions\, poets have access to one tool that other writers do not: the line. A defining feature of its genre\, the poetic line plays many roles in shaping a poem’s character. The line can serve simultaneously as pacing device\, secondary grammar\, image container\, rhythm driver\, and spotlight for sound. \n\n\n\nIn contemporary free verse\, attention is often paid to breaking the line. While valuable\, this thinking locates a line’s gravitational pull largely at its end\, sometimes excluding other possibilities. Lines\, after all\, are made as well as broken. And through this making\, a poem’s fingerprint takes shape. \n\n\n\nThis generative poetry workshop offers poets of all levels the chance to develop a broader and more nuanced understanding of how poems derive power from the line’s possibilities—including\, but also extending beyond\, its breaking. We’ll consider first lines\, line integrity\, flavours of enjambment\, and the line as both sound-vessel and gloss. We’ll also reflect on what happens between lines by thinking about juxtaposition\, stanza\, and pacing. \n\n\n\nOverall\, the goal is to support participants in enhancing their free verse at the line level as they generate new work. Participants can expect to draft four to six new poems and have at least one poem workshopped by the group. Early sessions will involve generative writing prompts and craft discussions\, while later sessions will focus on workshopping. To anchor our craft discussions\, we’ll look at work from a variety of contemporary poets. Writers should bring one of their own poems to the first session as a way of introducing themselves and their work. \n\n\n\nSarah Wolfson is the author of A Common Name for Everything\, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Canadian and American journals such as The Walrus\, The Fiddlehead\, TriQuarterly\, Prairie Fire\, CV2\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and PRISM international. Her work has earned notable mention in Best Canadian Poetry and funding from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont\, she now lives in Montreal\, where she teaches writing at McGill University. \n\n\n\n@SarahWolfson1 (Twitter) \n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/sarah.wolfson.14 (Facebook)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unbroken-leveraging-the-poetic-line/2022-11-15/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Art of Writing Speculative Fiction
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\nSpeculative Fiction\, a literary genre that can encompass anything from science-fiction and fantasy to magic realism\, slipstream\, alternate history\, horror\, steampunk\, fairy tales and fables\, dystopia\, and surrealism\, has been with us for as long as we’ve been telling stories. In recent years\, it has grown in importance as writing genres continue to cross and blur\, and even the most conventional writers of literary fiction experiment with speculative tools as a means to add wonder and power to their tales. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to both new and experienced writers\, whether of speculative fiction or of other genres. In each session of this eight-week workshop\, we will delve into a different topic and/or element of craft. The sessions will typically include a presentation\, examples from the work of experienced writers\, an in-depth\, participative discussion\, and a hands-on exercise. In addition\, each participant will have the opportunity to present their own work of speculative fiction—be it a short story or an excerpt from something longer—for detailed discussion and feedback. There will be clear ground rules for workshopping that are designed to ensure that our discussions remain constructive and respectful at all times. \n\n\n\nSome of the topics that the workshop will cover include: \n\n\n\nWhat is speculative fiction and what distinguishes it from other types of fiction? What are its special powers and challenges?Questions of content and your story’s four limbs: idea\, world\, character\, plot;Questions of structure and your story’s bones: point-of-view and narration\, chronology\, tense\, tone;Special focus on world-building;Special focus on character-building\, voice\, and dialogue;What kind of story are you writing? What are you trying to say?How to edit and improve your speculative fiction and prepare it for publication.\n\n\n\nSu J  Sokol is a social rights advocate and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. Originally from Brooklyn\, xe now resides in Montréal. Sokol is the author of Cycling to Asylum (2014)\, long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; Run J Run  (2019); and Zee (2020)\, finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol’s short work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies. This summer\, Sokol’s debut novel was translated into French and published under the title Les lignes invisibles by VLB Imaginaire.  Check out Sokol’s website at www.sujsokol.com \n\n\n\nFacebook: cyclingtoasylum \n\n\n\nInstagram: cycling2asylum \n\n\n\nTwitter: cyclingtoasylum
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-writing-speculative-fiction/2022-11-15/
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