Saturday, November 2nd
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Character Reinvention in Fiction Writing
with Philip Huynh, Nadja Lubiw-Hazard, Casey Plett, Claire Tacon & Jessica Westhead
Online ticket sales are closed. Limited tickets will be available at the door.These authors grapple with issues that challenge the inhabitants of their story in unique and unforeseen ways—family secrets, anxiety, displacement, abandonment, addiction, grief, the struggle for identity. Through discussions and readings from their work, we learn how these authors navigate complex realities and find ways for their characters to reinvent themselves in the process. Moderated by Claire Tacon. -
Creating Character
with Kathy Page
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Different Worlds and Different Bodies
with Amanda Leduc
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Facing Your Fear of Poetry
with Sarah Tolmie
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Gourmet Boxed Lunches
from EVO Kitchen
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Home and Away: A Roundtable Conversation
with Lamees Al Ethari, Helen Knott, Vinh Nguyen & Ayelet Tsabari
Online ticket sales are closed. Tickets will be available at the door.
How do displaced writers locate themselves in their writing? Refugee, immigrant, and Indigenous writers have pushed the boundaries of language to express their experiences. But they’re also challenging expectations of what it means to be a displaced writer in Canada. Join this intimate roundtable conversation to traverse these topics and more.
Please note: Helen Knott is unable to attend this event and sends her sincere regrets.
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How to Promote Yourself
with Casey Plett
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How to Turn the Written Word into Podcast Magic
with Michelle Parise
Online ticket sales are closed. Limited tickets will be available at the door.
Want to know tips and tricks for lifting your words off the page and into the ears of millions*? Find out how to write for the most intimate medium with award-winning journalist, writer and performer Michelle Parise, who adapted her memoir, Alone: A Love Story into a hit international podcast. In this workshop, she will share her process, thoughts on craft, and get you to think about writing with your ears.
*millions not guaranteed
Early Bird $20 • Online $22 • At the Door $25
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Poetry and Healing: In Conversation
with George Elliott Clarke
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Poetry Masterclass
with George Elliott Clarke
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George Elliott Clarke believes that poetic mastery consists in having command of too-often-overlooked or taken-for-granted basics: Vocabulary/Diction (incl. English “roots” and “routes”), Rhythm/Meter, and Forms/Constraints. He will offer a series of exercises (developed over 36 years of praxis), both of his own invention or borrowed–with acknowledgment–from others, all introduced with a discussion of the underlying theory, and all intended to help the participating writer or poet, at whatever stage of creative “mastery,” to range further, stretch, advance. Clarke has offered courses in Creative Writing at Duke University and the University of Toronto, and has also taught at Banff and at Green College (UBC) and in writing workshops from coast to coast. He promises participants increased excellence in craft and a charged atmosphere of due humility before the Muse(s) and irreverent humour for all (mere) mortals.
Early Bird $40 • Online $42
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Self-Care for Writers 101
with Maya Ameyaw, Eufemia Fantetti, Kathy Friedman, Stuart Ross & Leanne Toshiko Simpson
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Mental health and wellness concerns can be particularly acute in the writing community, as writers navigate creative and professional highs and lows. This roundtable discussion focuses on how writers can build strong self-care practices, boundaries, and support systems. It will also touch on the risks involved in writing about mental illness, including what it means to go public with our stories and the challenges of writing about traumatic personal histories.
The discussion will be led by special guests from InkWell Workshops. InkWell runs free creative-writing workshops for people with mental health and addictions issues facilitated by award-winning writers with lived experience.
Early Bird $10 • Online $12 • At the Door $15
If you want to attend this session but are facing financial barriers, please reach out to ebednarz[at]tnq.ca.
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Shaming or Celebrating? Challenging Norms in Personal Nonfiction
with Carolina Echeverria, Sheniz Janmohamed, Amanda Leduc, Heidi Reimer & Susan Scott
Online ticket sales are closed. Tickets will be available at the door.
It’s hard to write deeply personal nonfiction, harder still to get it published. Yet there is a crying need, we know, to confront what is hidden and taboo. What to do in the face of standoff? Are there strategies we can all adopt, conversations we can each initiate—and with whom? Join us in celebrating how one wildly unpopular topic (spiritual memoir) could become a beloved book (Body & Soul from Caitlin Press) that breaks down barriers for others—and possibly, for you. Moderated by Susan Scott.
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Ten Tips For Writing Great Creative Nonfiction
with Ayelet Tsabari
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Three of These Things Belong Together: The 2019 Publishing Panel
with Noelle Allen, Marilyn Biderman, Hazel Millar, Pamela Mulloy & Susan Scott
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The sing-song title says it all: some groupings are just a perfect fit. The publishing panel celebrates agents, small magazines, and small presses: why and how they belong together, and why understanding their linked roles and relationships is vital if you want to publish, or deepen your connection to publishing in general. Ideal for writers, editors, agents, and anyone who wonders about the rhythm and rhyme of literary fortunes. Moderated by Susan Scott.
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Youth Writing Masterclass (Ages 13-18)
with Francine Cunningham
Online ticket sales are closed. Limited tickets will be available at the door.
For writers aged 13-18.
Led by award-winning Indigenous writer Francine Cunningham, this masterclass will help you learn to connect with your memories to create a visceral piece of writing that springs alive with sensory details. We will then be using our writing to craft personal zines that showcase the words we have carefully crafted. Francine has over ten years experience teaching writing, visual art, and zine making. If you feel inspired please bring any art making supplies to enhance your zine with some visual art.
Early Bird $40 • Online $42 • At the Door $45