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SUMMARY:Mountain Writing - Self Directed Residency 2023
DESCRIPTION:Overview \nThe Self-Directed Mountain Writing program is a three-week residency for four established writers working in any genre (fiction\, nonfiction\, journalism\, or poetry)\, on mountain narratives\, environmental journalism\, stories of adventure\, or projects with climbing or mountaineering themes. \nWith a strong emphasis on literary quality\, interior journeys of exploration and the psychology of extreme endeavours are as much a focus as the physical accomplishments involved. \nWriters will enjoy dedicated\, uninterrupted writing time in a spectacular mountain setting\, and the communality of a small group of peers from around the world. \nThis program overlaps with the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival where visiting authors\, editors\, or publishers will offer further enrichment and inspiration. \nWhat does the program offer? \nParticipants will be encouraged to meet regularly to share work and projects for independent peer review and community support. During the program\, once weekly\, published guest speakers will present to the participants on topics and themes relevant to the program. \nWriters will be allocated a Leighton Artist Studio for personal use. \nWho should apply? \nEstablished writers with a proven publication record seeking a period of dedicated time to work on a project in the mountain writing genre. \nWe welcome writers from all backgrounds\, as well as gender identities and expressions. \nApplication Deadline: August 02\, 2023\nProgram Dates: October 25 – November 15\, 2023\nLearn more and apply online: https://bit.ly/3OMzGcW\nFinancial Aid is available for this program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mountain-writing-self-directed-residency-2023/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Opening the Floodgates: A Short Fiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Eight Thursdays\, Oct 5-Nov 23\, 6-8pmOpen to allLimited to 12 participantsHybrid Workshop \n\n\n\nAn eight-week workshop designed to help fiction writers open the creative floodgates. Feeling stuck in your writing? You are not alone! Participants in this workshop will spend four weeks using prompts and writing exercises to generate new stories before expanding and revising one story to workshop with the group. \n\n\n\nWith inspiration from masters of the craft such as Ursula LeGuin\, George Saunders\, and Matthew Salesses\, participants will be encouraged to experiment with narration\, structure\, character arcs\, and other story elements. We will also unpack the critiquing process to provide participants with the confidence and tools to refine their editor’s eye\, read each story on its own terms and provide helpful feedback to fellow writers. \n\n\n\nOther discussion topics will include how to create a writing routine\, how to tackle revisions between drafts\, where to submit finished stories and how to find a writing community. Participants should emerge from this workshop with clear ideas and strategies to invigorate their writing practice both on and off the page. \n\n\n\nRebecca Morris is a Montreal writer of literary fiction. Her stories won the Humber Literary Review’s 2022 Emerging Writers Fiction contest and the 2017 Malahat Review Open Season Award for Fiction. She also earned Honourable Mention in Prairie Fire’s 2018 Short Fiction contest and was long-listed in Room Magazine‘s 2018 Fiction contest. Other stories have been published in various Canadian literary magazines\, including FreeFall\, carte blanche\, and the Antigonish Review. Rebecca attended the 2019 Banff Spring Writers Retreat to work on her first novel\, Other Maps\, which is forthcoming with Linda Leith Publishing. Visit her online at rebeccamorris.ca
URL:https://qwf.org/event/opening-the-floodgates-a-short-fiction-workshop/2023-11-02/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Mille-Feuille: Writing Layered Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Eight Thursdays\, Oct 5-Dec 7 (no meeting Oct 26 and Nov 23)\, 6:30-8:30pmOpen to allLimited to 12 participantsOnline via Zoom \n\n\n\nThe Book of Delights\, by Ross Gay. Ongoingness\, by Sarah Manguso. Persephone’s Children\, by Rowan McCandless. Citizen\, by Claudia Rankine. Safekeeping\, by Abigail Thomas. What these and many other contemporary memoirs and book-length essays share is that they build in fragments. Each fragment may be less than a page long\, and the one that follows may or may not appear to be related. Yet somehow\, layer upon layer\, the fragments cohere into a rich and satisfying whole. In this online generative workshop\, we’ll take a cue from books like these. We’ll practice writing as a process of accretion\, starting small and layering\, adding texture and depth to our memoirs or personal and lyric essays.  \n\n\n\nEach class will begin with a warm-up invitation\, followed by conversation about a short reading related to the technique or form of the day. A second writing invitation will give you the chance to practice what we’ve discussed. You’ll also get opportunities to share your work. \n\n\n\nYou’ll come away with one or more short essays (in draft) and/or the beginning of a longer piece. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is suitable for participants at all levels. Poets wanting to move to prose and fiction writers may also enjoy it\, because the exercises will be adaptable to these genres. Come prepared to write\, to read\, to experiment\, to share. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 1: The Fragment and the Flash.\n\n\n\nWeek 2:  Collage. Contrast\, juxtaposition\, the unexpected. \n\n\n\nWeek 3:  The Braid. Parallel narratives.\n\n\n\nWeek 4:  The Hermit Crab. The borrowed form.\n\n\n\nWeek 5: The Hermit Crab. More borrowings.\n\n\n\nWeek 6: Diptych or Triptych.\n\n\n\nWeek 7: Visual Essay.\n\n\n\nWeek 8: Accretion as Method and Aesthetic.\n\n\n\n\nNote: Participants might wish to read one or more of the books mentioned above before the course begins\, but there’s no requirement to do so. I’ll provide reading material before or during each class\, and a list of suggested resources at the end. \n\n\n\nSusan Olding is the author of Big Reader: Essays\, a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Award and the Alberta Publishing Awards Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year\, and Pathologies: A Life in Essays\, selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of 100 Canadian books to read in a lifetime. She mentors writers through the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive and holds the 2023 Southam Residency in Personal Journalism at the University of Victoria. You can find her at www.susanolding.com.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mille-feuille-writing-layered-nonfiction-2/2023-11-02/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Art of Rejection: A Masterclass
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Nov 2\, 7-9pm *NEW DATE*Open to allOnline Workshop \n\n\n\nTo write and publish is to be rejected. And though it can be brutal\, rejection is also a blessing\, a dark teacher\, and nothing personal. Take it from an author\, a long-time editor\, and a teacher who knows. In this two-hour live masterclass\, Elissa Bassist will reframe rejection and normalize it to better grasp how it makes us better writers. She’ll cover the easiest ways to avoid rejection; how to use rejection as feedback and fuel; and how to reduce rejection hangovers and work faster through setbacks. \n\n\n\nBottom line: Getting good at rejection is the secret to success\, both professionally and romantically. Look forward to a lecture/sermon\, handouts\, a Q&A\, and a lot of crying — but also reaching the understanding that\, in the words of comedian-turned-Dancing With the Stars contestant Kel Mitchell\, “A setback just gets you ready for your comeback.” \n\n\n\nElissa Bassist is the editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and the author of the award-deserving memoir Hysterical (Hachette). As a founding contributor to The Rumpus\, she’s written cultural and personal criticism since the online literary magazine launched in 2009. Currently\, Elissa teaches many forms of humour writing in person and online at The New School\, 92NY\, Lighthouse Writers Workshop\, Pandemic University\, and elsewhere\, and she is probably her therapist’s favourite.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-rejection-a-masterclass/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Temporarily Stairs: Developing and Refining Long-Form Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Ten Thursdays\, Oct 5-Dec 7\, 8-10pmOpen via application to those with a novel-in-progress \n\n\n\nLimited to 10 participants \n\n\n\nHybrid Workshop \n\n\n\nAs Mitch Hedberg pointed out\, escalators are never broken—if they stop running\, they still work just fine as stairs. In the same way\, a story of any length is never broken\, even if it sometimes feels that way. If you’ve been working on a novel or novella and are feeling stuck\, overwhelmed\, or just plain lost\, this workshop is here to help you look at your manuscript anew and get things moving again. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is intended for writers who are looking for resources and encouragement while working on a novel or novella already in progress. Ideally\, you’ll have a significant portion (a minimum of about 30–50 pages) of your novel or novella already completed\, as well as a solid grasp of the story you’re working on. \n\n\n\nWriting long-form fiction on your own or with few readers can be exhilarating\, but can also leave you with incomplete drafts\, discarded chapters\, and the feeling that things have stalled. If you have pages of text\, a cast of fantabulous characters\, an amazing idea\, and a story no one else can tell\, but you sometimes want to call it a day and throw the whole thing out the window—don’t! I’ve been there\, and I’m here to help. \n\n\n\nGaining insight from unbiased readers—myself and the other members of the group—in a supportive\, creative atmosphere will help you identify issues\, clarify your intent\, and find real ways to improve your manuscript. To this end\, our focus will be on crafting outlines and workshopping sections of each participant’s novel or novella. You will be invited to submit pages from your work in progress to receive feedback and notes from your fellow writers (including me!). You’ll also be encouraged to include one or two questions about your work with each submission\, and you will have the opportunity to engage in informal question-and-answer sessions in each workshop. \n\n\n\nWorkshopping will be combined with lectures\, discussions\, and writing exercises to help you gain new insight to constructing and completing your novel or novella. We’ll explore ways to reinforce the structure of your existing manuscript\, gain deeper understanding of characters\, fix plot holes\, tie up storylines\, and approach publishers and editors. We’ll also work on sharpening another skill invaluable to any writer: the ability to pinpoint what might not be working and cut or rework if need be. Because writing a novel or novella takes as long as it takes\, this workshop is designed to help you stay motivated and focused through the difficult parts of writing a long piece\, and aims to give you the tools to get things moving and finish your manuscript in your own time. \n\n\n\nTo apply for a spot in this workshop\, please submit the following to Riley at QWF (riley@qwf.org) by Wednesday\, September 13 : \n\n\n\n\nA short summary of your novel or novella (about one or two lines).\n\n\n\nA maximum of 10 pages from your novel or novella\, double-spaced (if these are not the opening pages\, please include a brief note to let me know where we are in the story).\n\n\n\nOne or two questions about your novel\, the process of completing a long work\, and/or what to do with it when you feel it’s finished.\n\n\n\n\nSextant (Conundrum Press)\, Maya Merrick’s first novel\, was released to critical acclaim in 2005\, followed by The Hole Show (Conundrum Press) in 2007. She works with the Quebec Writers’ Federation as a mentor and workshop/master class facilitator\, was an instructor at Concordia University’s Centre for Continuing Education\, and served as the editorial and administrative assistant at Conundrum Press. She is an active writing coach\, mentor\, editor\, copyeditor\, and manuscript consultant. Maya is currently completing The Ride\, a collection of microfiction. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/temporarily-stairs-developing-and-refining-long-form-fiction/2023-11-02/
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