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SUMMARY:Edit Your Own Prose: The Art of Rewriting
DESCRIPTION:You’ve written a first draft of your novel or your memoir. You know you need to rework it\, but you’re stuck. It doesn’t quite work\, but you are not sure why. Rewriting the opening over and over isn’t helping. So\, what should you do?     \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to see your own work with an editor’s eye using tips\, tricks\, and hands-on exercises. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will focus on big-picture issues\, including story line\, character development\, and genre expectations\, and help you bring the story alive on the page through rhythm\, effective dialogue\, and language choices. \n\n\n\nThrough the course of the workshop\, you’ll learn how to: \n\n\n\n\nSpot common big-picture problems (info dumping\, “as you know\, Bob” explanations\, insufficient conflict\, misunderstanding genre conventions\, etc.)\n\n\n\nTrack character development (goals and motivation)\n\n\n\nSee the advantages and pitfalls of different points of view\n\n\n\nMake the most out of dialogue\n\n\n\nPlay with language and develop your imagination\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is geared toward fiction and creative nonfiction book-length manuscripts. \n\n\n\nBy the end of the workshop\, you’ll better understand what isn’t working in your manuscript and how to fix it\, and\, hopefully\, have learned to love the rewriting process.   \n\n\n\nMaria Schamis Turner is a freelance editor specializing in developmental editing and line editing for fiction and creative nonfiction. She is a founding editor and previous editor-in-chief and creative nonfiction editor of the literary magazine carte blanche. She worked for 10 years on literary projects for CBC Radio\, including as an editor for Canada Writes. She was also the producer of the true-story storytelling series This Really Happened and has taught numerous workshops on storytelling\, writing\, and editing.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/edit-your-own-prose-the-art-of-rewriting/2024-03-27/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writers Read Presents Canisia Lubrin and Christina Sharpe
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, March 27th\, Writers Read will be joined for a reading by Griffin Prize-winning poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin and writer\, Professor\, and Canadian Research Chair member in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University Christina Sharpe. The event will take place in Concordia University’s John Molson Building (1600 Boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest)\, Room 9D from 7pm-9pm. This event is free and open to all.  \nCanisia Lubrin is an acclaimed poet\, editor\, and writer. Her books of poetry include Voodoo Hypothesis (2017)\, which was named a CBC Best Poetry Book and was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award\, and The Dyzgraph*st (2020)\, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Lubrin’s fiction debut\, Code Noir (2024)\, has been described by Dionne Brand as “storytelling at its deepest and most intimate.” Lubrin’s writings explore ideas of social justice and the relationship between limitation and possibility in regards to art\, form\, and language. \nChristina Sharpe is a writer\, professor\, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race\, Gender & Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg\, and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press\, 2016)—named by the Guardian and the Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press\, 2010)\, and Ordinary Notes (Knopf Canada\, 2023)\, which won the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for The National Book Award. \nWriters Read is part of Concordia University’s Creative Writing program and is supported by the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Writers Read\, directed by Professor Sina Queyras since 2011\, invites renowned and emerging authors\, both Canadian and international\, to read from and discuss their work with students and local audiences. In addition to readings\, the series includes Master Classes and professional developmental activities spanning the school year. For updates\, follow our Instagram @writersreadconcordia \n*Credit for the photograph of Canisia Lubrin goes to Rachel Eliza Griffiths
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-read-presents-canisia-lubrin-and-christina-sharpe/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, John Molson Building\, Room 9D\, 1600 Rue de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3H 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Speaking Truth to Power: How to Write Non-Didactic Political Poetry
DESCRIPTION:This 8-week poetry workshop focuses on writing poetry that engages with social justice and politics without leaning too far into didacticism and prescriptiveness\, without sounding too preachy or like a chant in a march. This workshop intends to show writers how to subtly pack a punch into a poem that leaves the reader breathless\, surprised\, and moved. We will be doing this by exploring different formal approaches that will help add nuance and singularity to the poems we will be writing. \n\n\n\nEach week\, we’ll be discussing a different formal approach\, including: \n\n\n\n\nDirect address/letter poems\n\n\n\nFiltering through a lens\n\n\n\nWriter as expert\n\n\n\nResearch\n\n\n\nFound poetry/Erasure poetry\n\n\n\nVillanelle\, the ghazal\, and the power of repetition\n\n\n\nExperimental poetry\n\n\n\n\nWe will be doing so by reading and discussing poems that utilize specific formal approaches based on the topic set for the week. Some of the writers we will be reading include Hanif Abdurraqib\, Chen Chen\, Canisia Lubrin\, Trish Salah\, Tommy Pico\, Kay Gabriel\, Dionne Brand\, and Hala Alyan. \n\n\n\nFurthermore\, each week\, workshop participants will be given writing prompts that will help them learn about the different forms and formal approaches discussed. The prompts will guide the participants in attempting to write poems using that week’s form. Finally\, 1-2 writers will have their poems workshopped each week. Attendees will be asked to send in their poems a week in advance so that their peers can start workshopping the pieces at home a week in advance.This workshop is open to poets in any stage of their development\, whether they are new to writing or already have a writing practice. The goal of the workshop is for participants to leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the ways form and craft can be used to write more impactful and unique poems that engage with social justice and undermine the white\, cis\, colonial patriarchal status quo. This workshop will be especially useful for writers who feel they have something to say but don’t know how to say it.Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer\, translator\, and acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. Their book\, knot body\, published by Metatron Press in 2020\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, published by Metonymy Press in 2021\, was received honorary mention for the Arab American Book Awards and the Khayrallah Prize\, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French was published in Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers\, forthcoming Spring 2024.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speaking-truth-to-power-how-to-write-non-didactic-political-poetry/2024-03-27/
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