2019 FALL Workshops
Join us for a variety of workshops this season from accomplished writers from all across Northwestern Ontario. Our workshops are always open to the public, but some do require registration so make sure to check back often for updates!
September 2019
FINDING YOUR VOICE
with Gary Barwin
(Thunder Bay and Kenora)
Workshop Description
Writing is a dance between finding the words to say what you want and letting words magic the world of the text into being. In this lively and interactive writing workshop, we’ll explore these questions:
What is “voice”—your voice, the voice of the narrator, the voice of characters within a text?
How does word choice, sentence structure and overall flow affect or express the particular world of the story or the sensibility of its characters or narrator?
What is the right rhythm for what you want to say?
How can rhythm be a source of thought?
How does sentence length affect the flow of thought, create the texture of the world, (re)create the sound and sense of the sensibility of the narrator or their world?
What are ways to explore a wide range of different approaches to creating voice in both fiction and poetry?
And one final question: Will we try a whole bunch of different writing activities?
Answer: yes.
Writing is a dance between finding the words to say what you want and letting words magic the world of the text into being. In this lively and interactive writing workshop, we’ll explore these questions:
What is “voice”—your voice, the voice of the narrator, the voice of characters within a text?
How does word choice, sentence structure and overall flow affect or express the particular world of the story or the sensibility of its characters or narrator?
What is the right rhythm for what you want to say?
How can rhythm be a source of thought?
How does sentence length affect the flow of thought, create the texture of the world, (re)create the sound and sense of the sensibility of the narrator or their world?
What are ways to explore a wide range of different approaches to creating voice in both fiction and poetry?
And one final question: Will we try a whole bunch of different writing activities?
Answer: yes.
Thunder Bay
When: Saturday September 14, 2019
Where: Mary J L Black Library
Time: 10 am to 4 pm (with 1/2 hour lunch break)
Registration: required:
Price: $10. for NOWW members
$40. for non-members (includes one year membership with NOWW)
When: Saturday September 14, 2019
Where: Mary J L Black Library
Time: 10 am to 4 pm (with 1/2 hour lunch break)
Registration: required:
Price: $10. for NOWW members
$40. for non-members (includes one year membership with NOWW)
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Kenora
When: Monday September 16, 2019
Where: Inglenook Art Studio: 1051 Railway St., Unit 3
Time: 10 am to 4 pm (with 1/2 hour lunch break)
Registration: required
Price: $10. for NOWW members
$40. for non-members (includes one year membership with NOWW)
When: Monday September 16, 2019
Where: Inglenook Art Studio: 1051 Railway St., Unit 3
Time: 10 am to 4 pm (with 1/2 hour lunch break)
Registration: required
Price: $10. for NOWW members
$40. for non-members (includes one year membership with NOWW)
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The author of twenty-two books of poetry and fiction, Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Hamilton, Ontario and the author of the nationally bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates (Random House) which won the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His poetry includes No TV for Woodpeckers (poetry; Wolsak & Wynn, 2018) and, forthcoming, A Cemetery for Holes, a poetry collaboration with Tom Prime (Gordon Hill Press, 2019) and For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, 2019.) A new novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted will appear from Random House in 2021. A PhD in music composition, Barwin's writer-in-residencies include McMaster University, the University of Western Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University, the Toronto Public Library, Hamilton Public Library, London Public Library and Hillfield Strathallan College. He has taught writing in universities, colleges and in the community, including at McMaster University, King’s College (Western University) and Mohawk College as has performed and published his work internationally. garybarwin.com