At the Fraser Valley Writers Festival we have something for everyone! This years workshops will take place on November 2nd, 2024. We have a variety of workshops to choose from, which include multi-genre, poetry, short fiction, fiction, and non-fiction. All of our workshops are taught by our talented authors. Come learn from some of the best new and emerging Canadian authors!

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Short Fiction

 

Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Venue: D building, room 138

Author: Carleigh Baker

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"Start and Stop: Writing Beginnings and Endings in Fiction" (10 AM, D 138): Award-winning short fiction author Carleigh Baker will guide participants through how best to jump into, and wrap up, the action in their stories.​

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Tickets: eventbrite-shortfiction-workshop

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Multi-Genre 

 

Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Venue: D building, room 139

Author: Anita Lahey

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"Urgent News of the Day: The Creative Exploration of Current Events" (10 AM, D 139): In this multi-genre workshop, poet, essayist and journalist Anita Lahey will guide participants through a variety of approaches to writing about both current and historic events that can prove more creative, critical and - often - more illuminating than traditional journalism. 

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Tickets: eventbrite-multi-genre-workshop

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Non-fiction

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Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Time: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Venue: D building, room 138

Author: Kate Black

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"Writing as Inquiry: Destabilizing the Self for Authentic Non-Fiction":  What happens when our writing feels restricted, not inspired, by our life experiences? In this hands-on session, Kate Black will help participants examine how striving for disequilibrium in our writing and thinking practices can generate important, exciting new material to explore. Participants will have the opportunity to apply inquiry-based writing strategies to brainstorm a clear direction for their next creative non-fiction piece (or a life-inspired piece of any genre!).

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Tickets: eventbrite-nonfiction-workshop

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Poetry​

 

Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Time: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Venue: D building, room 139

Author: Marc Perez

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"Poetry in Place": Through the writing of both epistolary (poems as letters) and ekphrastic (poems on art) poems, Marc Perez will lead participants on an exploration of how poetry can better connect with the people and places around us.​​​

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Tickets: eventbrite-poetry-workshop

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Fiction

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Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Time: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Venue: D building, room 136

Author: Richard Kelly Kemick

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"Round as a Potter's Wheel: Creating Complex Characters in Fiction": How are some writers able to convey so much personality in so little space? In this workshop, Richard Kelly Kemick will focus on the concepts of voice, contradiction and desire to help participants create characters that are as round as most people believe the earth is.

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Tickets: eventbrite-fiction-workshop