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SUMMARY:Advanced Memoir: Maintaining Momentum
DESCRIPTION:This workshop on memoir is designed for people who have already studied at the intermediate  or advanced level with Elaine Kalman Naves. Please don’t be daunted by the “advanced” label. All of you are at a level to benefit from this workshop if you’re interested in writing\, reading\, and talking about memoir! \n\n\n\nThough you need not be working on a book- length narrative\, you will be expected to have a specific project in mind. It can be something you were working on in a previous workshop or something entirely new. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of the workshop\, you will have the opportunity to submit a piece of up to 3000 words\, and with luck you will have a chance to present a second time. (More details about this once we get rolling.) \n\n\n\nInstead of a text\, you will have the opportunity of reading some fine memoirs and the long lead-up to this fall workshop will give you a chance to do some advance reading. Please give priority in your summer reading to the terrific memoirs by the three writers who will be guest lecturers over the course of the session. (See below.) Once we have established who the actual workshop participants will be\, I will also supply you with a list of suggested optional works to enjoy over the course of the summer. \n\n\n\nThe emphasis is – as always in any workshop – 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. As in the past there will also be in-class exercises and discussion of topics of writerly interest. In a new departure\, we will start critiquing participants’ pieces at the very first session. Participants who volunteer to present early in the session will be much appreciated! Getting a head start will make it possible to present second drafts. Again\, we will work out these details ahead of time once the class list is established. \n\n\n\nHere are the names of the guest lecturers and their respective titles: \n\n\n\nCharles Foran\, Just Once\, No More \n\n\n\nHarriet Alida Lye\, Natural Killer \n\n\n\nMerrily Weisbord\, The Strangest Dream; Our Future Selves; Love Queen of Malabar \n\n\n\nAnd please don’t forget that William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is a great resource for matters of grammar and style! \n\n\n\nTo apply\, please send an email to Riley@QWF.org with the subject line “Advanced Memoir Application” no later than June 30\, 2023. Your email must include: \n\n\n\n1.      a 3-5-page double-spaced writing sample (non-fiction or fiction) that you feel is representative of your abilities. \n\n\n\n2.      a paragraph or two outlining the writing project you plan to pursue in the workshop. \n\n\n\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/advanced-memoir-maintaining-momentum/2023-10-16/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Conversation and Q &A with Ariela Freedman about Léa
DESCRIPTION:A conversation and Q & A with Ariela Freedman about her most recent novel\, Léa\, moderated by Linda Shohet. Based on famed Quebec activist Léa Roback (1903-2000)\, the novel brings to life a heroine emboldened by political struggles that resonate to this day. Léa\, born to a large Jewish family and raised in a small French Catholic town\, navigates languages and cultures to fight for social justice and change for women\, for unions\, and for any cause where she noted injustice. Ariela will discuss what drew her to Roback\, why she chose to focus on her early years\, and why Roback remains a revered figure in Quebec social justice circles.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/conversation-and-q-a-with-ariela-freedman-about-lea/
LOCATION:Quebec
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