Events & Workshops

 

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Accessibility measures in this event:

• Live auto-captions through Zoom during the live event
• (TBD) A read-along copy of the presenter's talk is available during the live event only
• Presenter self-descriptions
• This event will be recorded, captioned, and made available for 30 days (until March 6, 2025) on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw
• Transcript of the event available upon request

 

 

To register for this online event, please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qZeXZaBrRs-HE4Pv7T-EpA

 

 

First Draft: Conversations on Writing is an online talk series that dives into themes that affect our writing lives. Writing helps us to understand things and to communicate these findings to our audience, even if our audience is ourselves. Sometimes we are driven by these themes, other times they’re the things that hold us back – what we learn through the process can be revolutionary. The quest to be understood unifies all writers.

 

This event features a 15-minute talk presented by Clarissa Harwood. Following the talk is an interview conversation with Amanda Marcotte to dig deeper into the event theme.

 

Participants are welcome to submit questions in advance of the event to swgevents@skwriter.com.

 

 

When Your Writing Resists You Despite Your Best Efforts

 

Writers say we love writing, but do we really love the writing process, or do we love having written? Most of the time, writing is hard work. Have you ever been happily writing one minute and in the depths of despair the next, not knowing how you got there? Psychological resistance is real, whether it takes the form of doubting yourself, doubting your work, or feeling rotten because you don’t know what to write next. You might also feel a general sense of being blocked. Clarissa will explore the forms writing resistance can take and what to do about it.

 

 

Presenter

Clarissa Harwood holds a PhD in Nineteenth-century British Literature and is the author of three historical novels. Publishers Weekly called her first novel, Impossible Saints, “a rich debut. . . . With insight and sensitivity, Harwood explores century-old social mores and challenges that still echo loudly today.” Her second novel, Bear No Malice, won the Editor’s Choice award from the Historical Novel Society, and her third, The Curse of Morton Abbey, won the 2022 Ontario Indie Author Project Contest. Clarissa has taught university literature and writing courses for more than twenty years. She is also a freelance editor with an unhealthy passion for semicolons. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, she currently lives in Quebec with her husband and four spoiled cats. You can find her at clarissaharwood.com

 

 

Host

Amanda Marcotte is a writer and journalist from Saskatchewan. She started writing for her local paper when she was thirteen and she has been telling stories ever since. She spent her career at CBC, thriving on breaking news and quirky stories. Amanda has also popped up as a lecturer in journalism at the University of Regina. She is working on several projects, including a novel, Hockey Girls, and a middle-grade book series, Clues in the Doctor's House. 

 

 

 

 

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