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SUMMARY:Winter Writers Residency 2024
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThe Winter Writers Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat\, reconnect\, and re-energize their writing practice. In 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. \nWhat does the program offer?\nThe three-week Winter Writers Residency will provide writers space for the creative exploration of their writing practice. This self-directed residency offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life. Delve deep into your creative project and take advantage of the artistic community of your peers around you. \nThe program provides optional teaching from faculty members and professional guests\, Q&A sessions\, public events\, and one-on-one consultations with mentors. Public readings\, and group sessions led by guest mentors will explore techniques\, aspects\, and devices that writers may find useful in their practice. \nThe first two weeks focus on mentorship and consultations with faculty\, the third week allows self-directed time for further work on manuscripts and peer community.  \nThe Winter Writers Residency allows you to choose the amount of support you are looking for. All program elements are optional. \nWho should apply?\nWe welcome writers of all ages\, backgrounds\, and all gender identities and expressions. Writers in all creative genres are invited to apply. The program is designed for emerging and established writers with a proven publication record seeking a period of dedicated time to work on a project in any genre. \nWinter Writers Residency 2024 only accepts projects that are being written in English. \nThis program is not open to applicants who have taken part in a Banff Centre residency in the last year\, nor to current faculty members of any other Banff Centre programming. \nApplication Deadline: September 06\, 2023\nProgram Dates: January 15 – February 02\, 2024\nLearn more and apply online: https://bit.ly/3oXG5av \n*Financial Aid of 100% of tuition and 50% of food and accommodation is available for this program.
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LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Perspective in Literary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:This five-week workshop will offer a deep dive into the use of perspective in fiction. Storytellers operate in first-person\, second-person\, third-person limited\, third-person omniscient\, and more unusual points-of-view. What distinguishes these perspectives? What are their gifts and limitations? Most importantly\, what can your chosen perspective do for the story you want to tell? \n\n\n\nEach class will open with a discussion of perspective in some published fiction. How close is the narrator to the characters? How does the perspective affect the voice in which the story is told? What is the relationship of the voice to the characters? \n\n\n\nNext\, we will do two writing exercises. The first will be largely generative\, based on the reading. The second will be integrative\, guiding participants to apply what we are learning to their own stories or characters. \n\n\n\nAfter discussing the writing exercises\, we will devote the last part of each class to discussing participant stories. \n\n\n\nOn registration\, participants will receive a packet of published stories or samples to be discussed in the first class; reading for subsequent weeks will be distributed after our first meeting. Participants are encouraged to bring ½-1 page of fiction to share on the first day\, though they may choose instead to share some work generated in class. Subsequently\, each participant is encouraged to submit 3-10 pages of fiction to be discussed by the class with a special focus on perspective. Otherwise\, discussion will be tailored to participant preferences\, with an eye to making discussion as useful to the writer as possible.   \n\n\n\nParticipants should arrive each week having read the assigned stories and their peers’ work (approximately 40 pages). Be prepared to discuss these thoughtfully and with engagement! My goal is to create a space for candid and open-ended discussion. \n\n\n\nParticipants will finish the workshop with greater fluency and command in perspective\, as readers able to discern the subtleties and mechanics of this important aspect of our craft\, and as writers able to choose and employ a storytelling perspective with verve and confidence. \n\n\n\nPadma Viswanathan’s novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for various awards\, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her most recent book is Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime (Random House Canada\, 2023). Her short fiction\, essays\, and short translations can be found in Granta\, The Paris Review\, BRICK\, and elsewhere. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas\, she has also served as fiction faculty at the Banff Center\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Bread Loaf Conferences\, and the low-residency MFA of Fairleigh Dickinson University. More at www.padmaviswanathan.com 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/perspective-in-literary-fiction/2024-01-24/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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