Events & Workshops

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This event will not be live-streamed or recorded.

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 April 6, 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 April 7 and 12 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 April 13)
• 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.

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.
• Participant writing created during the workshop will be kept private. (There will be no sharing opportunity.)
• There is no participation expectation for participants – participants can engage as much or as little as they’d like.
• There will be a 10-15-minute Q+A at the end of the workshop to delve further into any particular points.

Sudden Impact – The Art of Micro Fiction

From one sentence long to 1000 words stories join paulo in learning the necessary skills to hone your writing craft in order to deliver a compact and compelling narrative. Learn to effectively distill a story down to its most impacting emotional moment. Successful micro-fictions leave a lasting impression on a reader’s mind.

paulo has been writing sudden fiction since the 90’s and has published over 100 sudden fictions in his writing career. His micro fictions have won competitions, have been anthologized internationally, translated to other languages and recorded in audiobooks. His latest work, The Midwife of Torment and Other Stories is a collection of 55 sudden fictions.

Workshop Facilitator

Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He has been writing sudden fiction since the 90s and has published over 100 sudden fictions in his writing career. His micro fictions have won competitions, have been anthologized internationally, translated to other languages and recorded in audiobooks. His latest book of fiction, The Midwife of Torment and Other Stories is a collection of 55 sudden fictions. 
 

He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, as well as the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and Portuguese.
 

Trust the Bluer Skies: Meditations on Fatherhood, a book of creative non-fiction, was published in 2024 with the University of Regina Press.
 

Learn more at https://www.paulodacosta.ca/

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