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SUMMARY:Writing About Controversial Topics: Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-about-controversial-topics-nonfiction/2020-11-23/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Remembering: The Art and Craft of Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/remembering-the-art-and-craft-of-memoir/2020-11-23/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Take a Second Look: Poetry Editing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:An early draft is often a diamond in the rough. Writers polish their writing through revision. Whether you’re writing for your personal archives or publication\, taking a second look at your work will create tighter writing. \nDuring the workshop\, we will discuss three features of a poem—words\, lines\, and titles. We will look at poems by acclaimed poets for practical examples of our discussion. Participants will revise three poems. Before the start of the workshop\, participants will be asked to send Blossom three poems they plan to edit during the workshop. \nBlossom Thom is a poet and editor. She is the author of #HashtagRelief (Gaspereau Press\, 2017) and her poetry has appeared during art collaborations and in literary magazines and anthologies including Poetic Notions: A Weaving of Poetry and Visual Arts\, Kola: A Black Literary Magazine\, and Montréal Serai. A mentorship with George Elliott Clarke set the groundwork for her work-in-progress and was supported by a Professional Development for Artists Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. \nPlease see event link for further details.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/take-a-second-look-poetry-editing-workshop/2020-11-24/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writing Memorable Characters for the Screen
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-memorable-characters-for-the-screen/2020-11-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Review\, Refine\, Submit:  Strategies for Writing Short Prose
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/review-refine-submit-strategies-for-writing-short-prose/2020-11-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201125T180000
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SUMMARY:Silver Pins: Novel Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop details TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/silver-pins-novel-writing-workshop/2020-11-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writing What We Don’t (Yet) Know: Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-what-we-dont-yet-know-fiction/2020-11-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Crafty Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Workshop details TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/crafty-poetry/2020-11-26/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201128T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201128T130000
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SUMMARY:A Vehicule Poetry Workshop with Endre Farkas & Carmine Starnino
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by:\nYolk in collaboration with the Quebec Writers’ Federation \nFacilitated by:\nEndre Farkas\, founding member of the Vehicule Poets\nCarmine Starnino\, Poetry Editor at Véhicule Press\n\nCost:$29.95 CAD (scroll down to sign up) \nLimited to thirty participants.‍\n\nIn this one-time\, three-hour workshop\, poets will be divided into two smaller groups (with a maximum of 15). Each group will have a 75-minute workshop with either Endre or Carmine\, then swap and have another 75-minute workshop with the other facilitator. We will then conclude with a brief open mic. All participants will additionally be offered the student-discount rate of $15 to become a member of the QWF.\n\nENDRE FARKAS: Endre Farkas was born in Hungary and is a child of Holocaust survivors. He and his parents escaped during the 1956 uprising and settled in Montreal. His work has always had a political consciousness and has always pushed the boundaries of poetry. Since the 1970s\, he has collaborated with dancers\, musicians and actors to move the poem from page to stage. Still at the forefront of the Quebec English language literary scene – writing\, editing\, publishing and performing – Farkas is the author of eleven books\, including Quotidian Fever: New and Selected Poems (1974-2007). He is the two-time regional winner of the CBC Poetry “Face Off” Competition. His play\, Haunted House\, based on the life and work of the poet A.M. Klein\, was produced in Montreal in 2009. Farkas has given readings throughout Canada\, USA\, Europe and Latin America. His poems have been translated into French and Spanish\, Hungarian\, Italian\, Slovenian and Turkish.\n\nEndre’s “Playshop”: A creative bent poetry playshop with Vehicule poet Endre Farkas. A playshop for those with a creative bent who want to get more bent. The playshop will focus on the creative process\, content and form. It will consist of exercises – individual and collaborative – and the “playshopping” (critiquing) of participants’ poems. A week prior to the playshop participants are asked to: \n\nSubmit two poems (no more than one page each) to themail@yolkliterary.ca\nSelect a favourite line from five to ten of their favourite poems (not their own).\n\n***** \nCARMINE STARNINO: Carmine Starnino has published six collections of poetry\, including This Way Out\, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title Par Ici La Sortie. His most recent collection is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016. His other books include The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Lazy Bastardism: Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry. He has received numerous awards\, including the Canadian Author’s Association Prize for Poetry\, the F.G. Bressani Prize\, and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry. \n\nCarmine’s Workshop: Poems can’t exist without some gratuitous delight in words. And when it comes to generating surprising turns of phrase\, good poets are high-stakes gamblers. Poetry is rehabilitative. It’s an art where words\, muffled by monotony of use\, are given a noisier life. If you want your poems to sound like nothing else people have read\, you need to want to uninhibit your language\, to write against the grain of its everyday usage—the ready-made phrases and the serviceable expressions that threaten to flatline your voice. In this workshop\, we’ll be talking about an aspect of poetry that gets too little consideration: its showmanship\, its capacity to grab the reader’s attention. Participants are asked to come to the workshop with a poem that you believe handles language in a distinctive way. The poem should have a voice of its own\, one can’t be confused with anyone else’s. It should have an authority of style that\, even in a few lines\, would allow us to identify it immediately. \nWorkshop facilitators: Endre Farkas (left)\, Carmine Starnino (right)\n\nRegistered participants may cancel their registration and receive a 100% refund\, provided that they do so within 72 hours of the workshop (before November 25th\, 10:00am). \n  \nSIGN UP>>
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-vehicule-poetry-workshop-with-endre-farkas-carmine-starnino/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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