Events & Workshops

Blow Up Your Darlings!: Incorporating Camp Humour into Your Fiction

Camp as a sensibility uses incongruity, theatricality, and humour to ‘blow up’ our idea of ‘good’ literature. Learn how you can use these tenants in your own work to generate ideas, unstick yourself from problem spots, and craft narratives that explode off the page!

Important registration notes:

Members pay less for workshops! Are you trying to register, and you’re being charged the full workshop fee when you’re a current SWG member? To access the reduced member rate for this workshop, please make sure you are logged into this website with your member profile to access the member rate for the session. (The member login link is on the top right of this page (computer) or at the top centre (mobile/tablet).)

If this workshop is sold out, please email swgevents@skwriter.com to be placed on the waitlist.

Please note that all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

This event will not be livestreamed or recorded.

Accessibility Measures in this workshop

• Live auto-captions through Zoom
• Presenter self-descriptions
• Limited Zoom technical support provided by SWG staff to assist participants while they’re in the Zoom meeting.

To help you prepare, here are the expectations for participants in this workshop:

• Camera is optional but greatly appreciated.
• Would appreciate participant discussion from everyone throughout the workshop when prompted (either through the chat box or by speaking out loud at appropriate times.)
• Participants are not expected to share writing created during the workshop with the group if applicable, but it is appreciated.
• Participants are expected to participate in activities/prompts/exercises throughout the workshop. (In session only, no homework required.)

Workshop registration refund policy:

Please be certain you will be able to attend before you register. Registered participants must promptly email the SWG staff person responsible for the event (Cat Abenstein, Program Manager, swgevents@skwriter.com) to cancel their registration. Otherwise, no refunds will be issued.

• A full refund is available if you cancel your registration one week prior to the start of the workshop (by 11:59 p.m. on January 19, 2026)
• A 50% refund is available if you cancel your registration less than one week and more than 48 hours before the workshop. (For cancellations between January 20 and 25 at 11:59 p.m. SK time)
• There is no refund for registrations cancelled within 48 hours of the workshop or for no-shows. (Beginning at 12:00 a.m. on January 26)
• If you would like to donate your registration fee to the SWG’s accessibility fund so others can attend events like this in the future, please let us know in your email.

Workshop Facilitator

Benjamin Johnson (he/him) is a queer writer living on Treaty 6 Territory in the Canadian Prairies. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has had work published previously by the Ex-Puritan, Necessary Fiction, Hunger Mountain Review, and others.

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