October 11, 2022
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October 17, 2022
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The 2022 edition of Word Feast: Fredericton’s Literary Festival will take place from Tuesday, October 11 to Monday, October 17. The theme of our 6th edition is History and Healing: personal stories, Queer History, healing from grief and trauma and, in November, military history.
We will bring back our children’s menu and feature great new specials as well as favourite items on both our dine-in and take-out menus. Check back here for updates, add your name to our subscriber’s list, or become a member to get the news first every time and discounts on some of our ticketed events.
The Art of Storytelling – Writing Workshop Saturday, August 27, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre St. Andrews by-the-Sea, NB Cost: $85/person
Spaces are limited; please contact us and register in advance by August 24. Need a refresher on the art of storytelling? Seize the remaining hours of summer and join award-winning author and professor Dr. Gerard Collins for this condensed version of his storytelling masterclass, which he recently taught at the invitation of the Frye Festival. In this half-day workshop, we’ll talk about story structure, how to show instead of tell, how to develop characters, enhance narrative tension, infuse your prose with subtext, and write dialogue that gets people talking. Bring your questions and conundrums—we’re putting it all on the table. ~~~~~~~~~~ About your host: Gerard Collins is the award-winning author of FINTON MOON, MOONLIGHT SKETCHES, and most recently, THE HUSH SISTERS. (www.gerardcollins.ca) Gerard is a Newfoundland writer, now living in New Brunswick, whose first novel, Finton Moon, was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award, and has won the Percy Janes First Novel Award. In 2019, he turned the Finton Moon experience into a multi-media art exhibition, “The Book that Wrote Itself”. His short story collection, Moonlight Sketches, won the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. In 2021 his second novel, The Hush Sisters won an international Next Generation Indie Book Award in the suspense category and also was a finalist in the paranormal category. Gerard has won numerous arts and letters awards for fiction, published in journals and anthologies, garnered positive reviews and arts grants, had his short stories taught in multiple university courses, and his first novel has been placed in high school learning resource centres across Newfoundland and Labrador. To ask a question or to register for “The Art of Storytelling,” email gerardcollins@gerardcollins.ca
