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SUMMARY:Are you Talking to Me? A Dialogue Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Dialogue is one of the key tools a writer can use in fiction and nonfiction. Good dialogue makes a scene sizzle with energy and life. Not only is it the words the characters speak to one another\, dialogue reveals personality and voice\, creates humour\, generates tension\, plays with pace\, and dramatizes relationships.  \n\n\n\nIn this full-day workshop we will focus on what dialogue is good for and what it isn’t. By touching on the three different ways of using dialogue (summary\, indirect and direct)\, we will examine how dialogue reveals theme and the various formatting and styles of dialogue. \n\n\n\nIn the first half of the workshop\, we will examine several excerpts from writers like Roddy Doyle\, ZZ Packer\, Akhil Sharma\, Deborah Levy\, and Eden Robinson. We will discuss how these authors use dialogue to accomplish several things at once and how this layering generates more compelling scenes. In the second half of the workshop the participants will have an opportunity to try two exercises\, one on conflict and the other on silence\, which will strengthen their knowledge and skill of how to use dialogue in their writing. \n\n\n\nEach participant will leave with a handout summarizing the highlights of how to use dialogue. \n\n\n\nA week before the workshop\, a document with the readings will be sent out for the participants to read prior to attending the workshop.    \n\n\n\nMarcia Walker’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reads\, The New Quarterly\, Fiddlehead\, The Chicago Review\, The New York Times\, PRISM international\, Room\, EVENT\, The Globe and Mail\, CBC radio and elsewhere. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize\, PRISM’s fiction and non-fiction prize\, and the Writers’ Union of Canada short prose competition. She has completed residencies at Yaddo\, the Banff Centre\, Vermont Studio Center and will attend Saari\, Finland in early 2023. Originally from Shakespeare\, Ontario\, she now makes her home in Montreal where she teaches creative writing online through the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\nVisit her at www.marciawalker.ca
URL:https://qwf.org/event/are-you-talking-to-me-a-dialogue-workshop/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Counter Offence
DESCRIPTION:Set in 90’s Montreal\, Counter Offence tells the story of Shazia\, an Indo-Quebecois woman who finds herself caught in an abusive marriage with Shapoor\, an Iranian man grappling with complex parental problems\, and challenges of immigration. Things take a turn when Shapoor is arrested on domestic violence charges by Sgt. Galliard\, a white officer staunchly dedicated to preventing violence against women. Moolchand\, an Indo-Canadian anti-racist activist\, comes to Shapoor’s defense\, by accusing Galliard and the entire SPVM of racial bias. Clarinda Keith\, a Black social worker\, defends Galliard despite the police’s undeniable racism against people of colour\, in order to support the voices of vulnerable women. When suddenly a body is found\, everyone is a suspect as lines between what is right and wrong become blurred. Counter Offence explores multiple realities existing simultaneously\, and asks the question: how can one discover truth through conflicting narratives?
URL:https://qwf.org/event/counter-offence/2023-03-26/
LOCATION:QC
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