Please note all times listed are Saskatchewan time. This workshop will not be recorded.
Walking and Writing: Experiencing the World
“Walking and Writing: Experiencing the World” is a two-part workshop that encourages writers to consider walking—or any form of self-propelled mobility—as a way to experience and write about the world. Participants will be encouraged to go for a walk (or a roll, or a paddle), take notes, and then transform those notes into a short work of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) or poetry. Participants will have the opportunity to submit their newly created writing for feedback. Models for using walking to write about place will also be considered—there is a vast literature about walking that provides examples of using self-propelled locomotion to generate works about place.
Workshop format:
First Zoom session: June 11, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Self-guided walk and notes: June 11 or shortly after
Assignment due and emailed to Ken Wilson: June 18, 2022
Final Zoom session: June 25, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Ken Wilson is a settler who lives on Treaty 4 territory in oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan), where he teaches English courses at the University of Regina. His creative nonfiction essay “Populus” was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2021 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in Queen’s Quarterly. He holds an MFA from the University of Regina and is an alumnus of the Sage Hill Writing Experience. His current writing project, a book-length manuscript on walking, won the 2022 City of Regina Writing Award.
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