The Writers’ Open Mic is a free monthly event open to all. Come out and read your poems, short stories, comics, novels, essays, twitter posts, stand-up comedy, etc. Or just come to listen. Please wear a mask.
A projector will be set up for those with comics or other images or videos they want to share. Files can be brought on a USB or emailed in advance. Accessibility concerns, general questions, and image or video files can be directed to laurawatsonartwork@gmail.com.
The Writers’ Open Mic is a free monthly event open to all. Come out and read your poems, short stories, comics, novels, essays, twitter posts, stand-up comedy, etc. Or just come to listen. Please wear a mask.
A projector will be set up for those with comics or other images or videos they want to share. Files can be brought on a USB or emailed in advance. Accessibility concerns, general questions, and image or video files can be directed to laurawatsonartwork@gmail.com.
On September 7 at 7 p.m. in Fredericton, join The Fiddlehead for the launch of their 2023 Summer Poetry Issue, with readings from contributors Ali Blythe, Rose Després, Clare Goulet, Jennifer Houle, Kathy Mac, and Carlos Morales. This will include readings of translated works from a partnership with Acadian Literary Journal Ancrages.
This free event will take place in Fredericton, at the Harriet Irving Library’s Milham Room (Rm 100), and on Zoom for those who can’t attend in person (registration required for online participants). An ASL interpreter will be present.
This event is funded in part by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Culture NB, and the University of New Brunswick.
Free | Zoom registration: thefiddlehead@gmail.com
Reading Description: Will be reading from Animal Person.
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Workshop Title: “Who are these people and what is happening to them?” Re-thinking the Relationship Between Character and Plot in Fiction.
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Workshop Description: Character and plot. For many readers and writers, these are the two most important narrative elements in any story.
Some people read and/or write primarily for characters. They feel that a story, at its core, has to be about someone or about a collection of figures. A family saga, for example. Others prefer plot. For them, narrative is what happens, and, in the end, a good story – a mystery for example – is essentially a sequence of unfolding scenes or events. What is a writer to do with this back and forth, chicken and egg kind of problem?
Rather than trying to quiet these tensions, this workshop instead explores the vital interdependence of plot and character and it asks us to think deeply about the way characters are produced and /or revealed by what happens to them. Using some key exercises and working with examples selected from masterpieces of literature, we will try to reflect on the ways that these two narrative elements can be strategically combined to produce powerful and memorable scenes. We will also try to branch out a bit to see how good characters and good plotting absolutely require key contributions from the more poetic elements of our writing, such as pacing, tone, rhythm, diction, imagery and sentence structure.
Who are these people and what is happening to them? How does their story “go?” What does it look and sound like? These are just a few of the questions we will try to answer.
Reading Description: Will be reading from Animal Person.
Register here
Workshop Title: “Who are these people and what is happening to them?” Re-thinking the Relationship Between Character and Plot in Fiction.
Register here
Workshop Description: Character and plot. For many readers and writers, these are the two most important narrative elements in any story.
Some people read and/or write primarily for characters. They feel that a story, at its core, has to be about someone or about a collection of figures. A family saga, for example. Others prefer plot. For them, narrative is what happens, and, in the end, a good story – a mystery for example – is essentially a sequence of unfolding scenes or events. What is a writer to do with this back and forth, chicken and egg kind of problem?
Rather than trying to quiet these tensions, this workshop instead explores the vital interdependence of plot and character and it asks us to think deeply about the way characters are produced and /or revealed by what happens to them. Using some key exercises and working with examples selected from masterpieces of literature, we will try to reflect on the ways that these two narrative elements can be strategically combined to produce powerful and memorable scenes. We will also try to branch out a bit to see how good characters and good plotting absolutely require key contributions from the more poetic elements of our writing, such as pacing, tone, rhythm, diction, imagery and sentence structure.
Who are these people and what is happening to them? How does their story “go?” What does it look and sound like? These are just a few of the questions we will try to answer.
The Frye Festival is the largest literary event in Atlantic Canada and a bilingual celebration of books, ideas and the imagination.
Amounting to ten days of festivities, the festival takes place at the end of April and unfolds in the Greater Moncton region, in neighbouring communities, and, in the case of school visits, all over the province.
On March 21, 2023 at 5 p.m., come celebrate the unveiling of the Frye Festival’s 24th annual edition, and be the first to discover the full author lineup and schedule of events!
We will also introduce our new web platform. Participation is free, but please rsvp here: http://bit.ly/3ILsCtF
We are looking forward to seeing you!
📅 March 21, 2023
⏰ 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
📍2nd floor of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre
♿ Wheelchair Accessible: ramp at the entrance on Alma Street and elevator in the middle of the building.
On Saturday, February 18, join us for a hybrid memoir writing workshop with poet Sina Queyras.
Never write alone and yet be only yourself. Write with form, with constraints, but find your own shape; your own relationship to constraints. Good writing usually has two qualities: intense familiarity and surprise. A good sentence often changes direction completely midway through. In the sea of language sometimes all one needs to do is steer into the swell. In this workshop we’ll discover tactics for weathering.
Sina Queyras is the author of the poetry collections My Ariel (2017), MxT (2014), Expressway (2009), Lemon Hound (2006), and most recently, Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf (2022), all from Coach House Books.
Details:
February 18, 2023 | 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Community Peace Centre | Wheelchair Accessible
Regular: $ 25 / WFNB: $ 15
Offered in partnership with the Writers Federation of New Brunswick and MAGMA.
Day one of classes for The Charlotte Streets Arts Centre + Next Folding Theatre Company’s collaborative writing class: This is What Happened to the Ragdoll Cat!
The eight week course led by playwriting veteran Ryan Griffith will take students through the development of brand new works. The workshop will cover all the basics of developing new ideas and more advanced skills for when it comes time to get your ideas on to the page. The class will culminate in a public reading where the new scripts will be showcased for the general public on the CSAC auditorium stage. Whether you are working on your next play, film, short story or novel, this class will help you bring your ideas into reality.
The group meets at 7pm on Tuesday nights for a period of eight weeks. The group will meet in the Community Room of the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Classes begin January 10th.
Enrollment is $160. We offer the discounted price of $140 for students/elderly/underpaid folks. This can be paid through credit card via the phone, or cash or debit in person at our office.
For more information or to enroll, email events@charlottestreetarts.ca or call our office at 506-454-6952. Our office hours are 9-1, Mon-Fri.
Day one of classes for Charlotte Street Arts Centre + Next Folding Theatre Company’s collaborative writing class: This is What Happened to the Ragdoll Cat!
The eight week course led by playwriting veteran Ryan Griffith will take students through the development of brand new works. The workshop will cover all the basics of developing new ideas and more advanced skills for when it comes time to get your ideas on to the page. The class will culminate in a public reading where the new scripts will be showcased for the general public on the CSAC auditorium stage. Whether you are working on your next play, film, short story or novel, this class will help you bring your ideas into reality.
The group meets at 7pm on Tuesday nights for a period of eight weeks. The group will meet in the Community Room of the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Classes begin January 10th.
Enrollment is $160. We offer the discounted price of $140 for students/elderly/underpaid folks. This can be paid through credit card via the phone, or cash or debit in person at our office.
For more information or to enroll, email events@charlottestreetarts.ca or call our office at 506-454-6952. Our office hours are 9-1, Mon-Frii