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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/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Words & Music: Turning the Page
DESCRIPTION:April 17\, 20247:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30)Tickets available on Eventbrite and at the door (while tickets last)Free to to watch online (register here)\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for the Spring 2024 Edition of The Words and Music Show! \n\n\n\nHosted by Johanne Pelletier\, Words & Music: Turning the Page will feature Moth-style narrative storytelling with an international cast\, with stories about big lessons and finding contentment wherever you are. \n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\nJohanne Pelletier (host\, curator)\n\n\n\nKadi Diop (Montreal)\n\n\n\nKurt Mullen (Boston)\n\n\n\nRonna J Levy (Brooklyn)\n\n\n\nClaire Sherwood (Montreal)\n\n\n\n\nWatch Online\n\n\n\nThe event will be livestreamed using the auditoriums A/V equipment and be free to watch on Zoom. Register now to watch it online. \n\n\n\nFor the full experience\, buy your tickets on Eventbrite to attend in person. Tickets will also be for sale at the door (cash or e-transfer only) while tickets last. \n\n\n\nThe Performers\n\n\n\n\nKadi Diop is a half-Guinean\, half-Senegalese queer\, fat\, bilingual\, and multi-hyphenate comedian and storyteller. She is also a long-time community organizer\, a sexology student\, and the former French Education Director and French Inclusion and Diversity coordinator at Montreal Improv. She has performed at OFF-JFL\, Zoofest\, the Black and Funny Improv Festival\, Ottawa Improv festival\, Montreal Sketchfest\, MProv\, and Ladyfest. Kadi performs improv and storytelling regularly in Montreal on various teams\, is one half of the sketch duo Inside Scoop\, and a doting/annoying auntie. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonna J Levy is an award-winning Brooklyn-based storyteller\, story coach\, producer\, and Boston Red Sox fan. She is a newly retired English professor and has happily made the shift from telling stories in the classroom to telling stories on the stage. She has appeared on WGBH’s Stories from The Stage\, RISK!\, is a two-time Moth Story SLAM winner\, and co-hosts and produces a monthly open mic in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKurt Mullen is an award-winning storyteller\, writer\, teacher\, editor\, and producer. He has appeared on WGBH’s Stories from the Stage\, RISK!\, and the GRIT: True Stories podcast. In magazines\, literary journals and anthologies\, Kurt has written about soldiers coming home from war\, about his own personal loss and grief\, and about the quirky folks who like to go it alone in this world. Kurt lives in Newburyport\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, Amy Ruth. Learn more about Kurt’s work at www.kurtmullen.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Sherwood is a Montreal writer\, visual collage poet\, and storyteller. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Minority Reports: New English Writing in Quebec\, Kola Magazine\, Zettel Magazine\, Helios\, My Island My City\, and What Lasts. Her collage-poems have been exhibited at Montreal\, Toronto\, and eastern Canada. She has appeared in storytelling line-ups with Confabulation and at Blue Metropolis with This Really Happened. \n\n\n\n\nThe Host\n\n\n\n\nJohanne Pelletier is an award-winning storyteller working in communications in Montreal. She teaches storytelling concepts to scientists and start-ups and is a regular performer of her own writing at shows in Canada and the U.S. She is the first Canadian to have one of her stories featured on Stories From the Stage at WGBH Studios\, is the winner of the GRIT 99-Second Story Grand SLAM\, and the first storyteller to be a finalist for the QWF Spoken Word Prize. For more and the stories\, see www.jpelletier.ca. \n\n\n\n\nGetting to the Venue\n\n\n\nThe show will be held at the Adair Auditorium on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre (1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount). \n\n\n\nAddress: 1200 Atwater Avenue (top floor)Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\nThe Adair Auditorium is fully accessible by wheelchair from the side entrance on Tupper Street. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor where the auditorium is. Watch a video tour of the accessible entrance and elevator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister to Watch online
URL:https://qwf.org/event/words-and-music-turning-the-page/
LOCATION:Adair Auditorium\, Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, top floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3Z 1T4\, 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/2024-04-17/
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