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SUMMARY:Morris House Reading Series: Marco Timpano
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 31\, 2024\, 4:00-5:00 pm ETIn Person or Online\n\n\n\nThe Morris House Reading Series\, Bishop’s University’s English Department is pleased to announce that it will host Marco Timpano (via Zoom)\, who will offer a public reading from his book\, 25 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Podcast\, and some brief pointers about embarking on your own podcast. The event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nMarco Timpano is an award-winning podcaster\, author\, and voice-over artist. His book\, 25 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Podcast\, is a witty account of his experiences as a podcaster\, offering invaluable insight into the challenges and successes of podcasting. His work in the podcasting landscape has been featured in The Globe & Mail\, CTV Morning Live\, and SiriusXM\, and he has been invited to teach at George Brown College\, The Quebec Writers’ Federation\, Dalhousie University\, Simon Fraser University\, and elsewhere. His podcasts (including Eat & Drink\, and The Insomnia Project) confirm that podcasting offers a unique platform for storytelling\, sharing knowledge\, and fostering meaningful connections. \n\n\n\nThis talk is being supported by the Speakers’ Committee. \n\n\n\nAbout the Morris House Reading Series\n\n\n\nThe Morris House Reading Series is in its twentieth year of hosting both established and up-and-coming authors at Bishop’s University. Prestigious Canadian writers such as Alistair MacLeod\, Jeffrey Moore\, Anne Michaels\, Heather O’Neill\, M. NourbeSe Philip\, and Donna Morrissey have come to present their work\, answer questions\, and meet with the audience during the informal reception that follows the reading. \n\n\n\nAdditional Information: Further information about past readings or updates about our events can be viewed at the Morris House Reading Series website. \n\n\n\nContact Information: For further information about this event or to request a Zoom link\, please contact Linda Morra by email at lmorra@ubishops.ca.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morris-house-reading-series-marco-timpano/
LOCATION:Bishop’s University\, 2600 College Street\, Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, J1M 1Z7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Poetry and the Tiny Sea in the Ear
DESCRIPTION:The tiny sea in the earand the moth wing in the mind\, which wait.— Don McKay\, “Early Instruments” \n\n\n\nThis workshop invites participants to explore our “early instruments” of imagination and experience through the language of poetry. \n\n\n\n“The excitement of metaphor\,” writes Don McKay\, “stems from the injection of wilderness into language.” Add to this idea the excitement of any element of poetic making. \n\n\n\nDuring these eight weeks\, we will draft and develop poems that tap the surprise of tension and release\, tease out what’s wild in the everyday\, refresh expectation and sharpen expression. \n\n\n\nIn each session\, we will respond to each other’s poems and work with one or more prompts. In most sessions we will look briefly at a strong contemporary poem and consider what we might borrow from it as a springboard to our writing. \n\n\n\nAll levels of experience are welcome. \n\n\n\nSusan Gillis (she/her) has taught Creative Writing at Concordia University and John Abbott College\, and has led poetry workshops with QWF\, Los Parronales (Chile)\, Blue Met\, in schools and in the community. Her four books have been nominated for several awards; Volta (2002) was awarded the A.M. Klein Prize. She is a founding member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko’s Dogs (Whisk\, 2013; Rhinoceros\, 2016; Caution Tape\, 2021). Her most recent book is Yellow Crane (Brick 2018). She works as a freelance editor and mentor.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-and-the-tiny-sea-in-the-ear/2024-10-31/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Pursuing the Erotic
DESCRIPTION:This is an expanded version of the three-hour workshop “Identifying (with) the Erotic” offered in July 2022. It progresses from initial references to erotica by old hands (Anaïs Nin)\, incidental practitioners (James Baldwin) and newer writers (Ruel Johnson) to consider other select works in prose\, poetry\, and comics. You do not have to have attended the 2022 workshop to enroll in this one. \n\n\n\nThe workshop continues the exploration of what makes the erotic not only a sensual genre but a life-affirming one with participants contributing their own writing as well as sourcing that of other practitioners. While creating sexy characters and scenes with stimulating language is part of the process\, and knowing your audience is crucial (there is a difference between romance\, erotica and pornography)\, the emphasis remains on craft and telling a story that engages readers’ imagination\, exciting not only the body but all of the senses. And this without apology. \n\n\n\nRobert Edison Sandiford is the author of several books\, among them the award-winning The Tree of Youth & Other Stories\, And Sometimes They Fly (a novel) and Sand for Snow (memoir).  He has also written graphic novels for NBM Publishing.  In 2003\, he and the poet Linda M. Deane founded the Barbadian cultural resource ArtsEtc Inc.  He has worked as a publisher\, teacher and\, with Warm Water Productions\, producer.  His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in journals\, magazines and anthologies.  Currently working on another novel\,his most recent titleis Fairfield from DC Books.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/pursuing-the-erotic/2024-10-31/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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