Events & Workshops

 

In this interactive workshop, participants will gain editorial expertise from poet, editor, and Arc Magazine’s 2025-2026 Poet-in-Residence, Cassidy McFadzean. Cassidy will begin with an overview of her editing style and favourite editing tips before providing close readings of a selection of participants’ work, with a focus on elements of form, musicality, imagery, narrative, and meaning. By making small but precise line edits and highlighting moments of ambiguity that might impact a reader’s encounter with a poem, Cassidy will demonstrate when to edit for compression, when to let a poem breathe, and how to enliven what is already present. All participants will have the opportunity for a 1-pg poem to be edited in a supportive and respectful environment, and to ask questions about the editing process.  

 
To participate: Submit a 1-page poem that you would like feedback on and agree to have discussed during the masterclass. Due to time constraints, not every poem will be featured in the masterclass, but all participants will receive line edits on poems submitted for consideration. Poems remain the property of the author and will not be shared outside of the workshop.  

 

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 programs@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:  

• Participants are invited to submit a 1-page poem ahead of time, which may be selected for discussion during the masterclass. 

• Camera optional but greatly appreciated. 

• Participant discussion is not required but appreciated. 

• There is no participation expectation for participants during the masterclass – participants can engage as much or as little as they like. 

 

 

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 (Yolanda Hansen, Program Director, programs@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 workshop (by 11:59 p.m. on Nov 13, 2025)  

• 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 November 13 and 17 at 11:59 p.m. SK time) 

• There is no refund for registrations cancelled within 48 hours of the workshop or no-shows. (Beginning at 12:00 a.m. on Nov 18)  

• 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 

 

Cassidy McFadzean is the author of three books of poetry: Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024), Drolleries (McClelland & Stewart 2019), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and Hacker Packer (M&S 2015), winner of two Saskatchewan Book Awards and finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Hazlitt, The Walrus, and Dead Writers (Invisible Publishing, 2025). Born in Regina, Cassidy earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, and now lives in Toronto, where she was Writer-in-Residence at Sheridan College and is the incoming Poet-in-Residence at Arc Poetry Magazine.  

 

 

 

 

 

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