Events & Workshops

“The Writing Life: Do You Choose It, or …”

 

How luck, circumstance and opportunity come together to create your story.

 

To register for this online event, please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2RMQmB97SjCQq7RwMKD-sA

 

This event is open to the public and free for everyone. 

 

About this event:

 

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 Michael Mirolla. Following the talk is an interview conversation with Kathleen Wall to dig deeper into the event theme.

 

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

 

Please be mindful of your time zone, as all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

 

Accessibility measures in this event:

• Live auto-captions through Zoom during the live event
• (TBD) A read-along copy of the presenters’ talk available during the live event only
• Presenter self-description
• This event will be recorded, captioned, and made available for 30 days (until December 3, 2026) on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw
• Transcript of the event available upon request available for 30 days (until December 3, 2026)

 

Presenter

 

Michael Mirolla has published more than two dozen novels, plays, film scripts and short story and poetry collections. Awards include the Hamilton Literary Award for the novella, The Last News Vendor, and three Bressani Prizes: the novel Berlin; the poetry collection The House on 14^th Avenue; the short story collection Lessons in Relationship Dyads. A symposium on Michael’s writing was held in 2023. From September 2024 to June 2025, Michael served as the Regina Public Library’s WIR. Born in Italy and forged in Montreal, Michael makes his home on a farm (along with five dogs, a cat and sundry humans) outside the town of Gananoque.

 

Host

 

Kathleen Wall is the author of a novel, Blue Duets, and three books of poetry, Visible Cities, Time’s Body, and Without Benefit of Words. Her book of wide-ranging essays on minimalism, Frosted Boughs:  The Arts of a Minimalist Life, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions.  She keeps a popular blog, Blueduets.blogspot.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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