POETRY WORKSHOP with Ross Leckie this Saturday

REGISTRATION DEADLINE TOMORROW!

Soooo…do you want to be a critic? Want to make your poetry shine? Want to pitch, publish AND get paid as a freelance writer?

These are some of the exciting workshops the QWF will be offering in the Spring. A full schedule with more details will be posted later this week on the QWF website.

Meanwhile, here’s a more immediate cure for cabin fever and writers’ block – the DEADLINE for registration is TOMORROW:

The Authority of Lyric
A poetry workshop with poet and editor Ross Leckie

Saturday, January 31, 2009
1 – 4:30pm

The workshop will focus on close readings of participants’ work, led and informed by Ross Leckie's insight and gift for synthesis. Each participant will be encouraged to read aloud from his or her work and will receive comments from poet and editor Leckie, who will also stimulate discussion from the group. The workshop will touch on lyric and narrative pace, effective diction and punctuation, structural elements, and on metaphoric and thematic continuity. Moments of authenticity, imagination, clarity and figurative muscle will be singled out, and each participant will be offered feedback on improving their work.The session will conclude with a discussion of editing and publishing poetry, and with a question-and-answer period.

ROSS LECKIE is the author of three poetry books, A Slow Light (Signal Editions), The Authority of Roses (Brick Books) and Gravity's Plumb Line (Gaspereau Press). Originally from Lachine, Leckie is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick, editor of The Fiddlehead and poetry editor for Goose Lane Editions. In 2008, he received a Fulbright Fellowship to work at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Location: Quebec Writers’ Federation office, The Atwater Library, 2nd floor, Room #31200 Atwater, Westmount H3Z 1X4

For more information:
Tanya Mayhew
info@atwaterlibrary.ca
514.935.7344, Fax: 514.935.1960

Cost: $45

Send in your registration package ASAP to the Atwater Library to the attentions of Tanya Mayhew by January 29, 2009. Please include: $45 cheque made out to Ross Leckie, samples of your poetry (maximum 2 pages), cover letter containing name, address and contact information.

Enrollment in the workshop is limited and pre-registration is required.

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