Events & Workshops

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Accessibility Measures in this workshop

• Live auto-captions through Zoom
• Presenter self-descriptions
• Limited Zoom technical support is 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 optional workshop (participants are not expected to be on camera.)
• Participant discussion is not required but it is appreciated.
• Participants are not expected to share writing created during the workshop with the group if applicable, but it is appreciated.
• There is no participation expectation for participants to engage in activities/prompts/exercises –participants can engage as much or as little as they’d like.
• (Optional) Participants will have the chance to submit homework for feedback.  

Out of Line: Tone, and Voice, and Structure

What makes some stories play over and over in our minds? We'll look at ways to craft fine tones, fresh voices, and puzzle-perfect structures, celebrating strategies old and new. We’ll gather through Zoom to explore these elements in our first meeting, take a week to complete a take-home assignment, receive feedback to lead us forward, and gather virtually again to further our discussion and to celebrate what we’ve learned. We'll depart with a selected list of books on craft, novels to excite and delight, and suggestions for publication.

Workshop timeline:

• Tues., May 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m. SK time – First session on Zoom
• Sunday, May 12 – (Optional) homework deadline, work sent to the SWG
• Tues., May 21, noon – Receive homework feedback from Barbara
• Tues., May 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. SK time – Final session on Zoom

Barbara Langhorst spent nearly twenty blissful years in Saskatchewan, where she had the privilege of meeting many of Canada’s finest writers. She now lives in Edmonton, with her beloved husband, dog, and two cats. She tutors Poetry, Speculative Fiction, and Advanced Fiction for Athabasca University, and teaches Creative Writing and English for MacEwan University. She is the author of one award-winning collection of poetry, restless white fields (2012), and two novels: WANT (2018, shortlisted for the 2019 Regina Public Library’s Book of the Year) and The Winter-Blooming Tree (2021).

www.barbaralanghorst.com.

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