How to Get a Spot in a QWF Workshop
Eight-week workshops: $170 per course ($150 for QWF members)
All-day Saturday workshops $75 each (plus a $5 materials fee for Radio workshop)
Two-hour Saturday workshop $20
Call or email the office to see if there's still space available, and register. Pay for the workshop by cheque, cash or via PayPal.
Pmt by cheque to:
Quebec Writers' Federation
1200 Atwater, Suite 3
Montreal
H3Z 1X4
or by cash at the QWF office (by appointment).
For more information:
(514) 933-0878
info@qwf.org
www.qwf.org
If you're paying with PayPal:
You must contact the office first to get registered.
Note that there is a small service charge for the convenience of paying through Paypal - to pay $170, send $176. To pay $150, send $155. To pay $80, send 83. To pay $75, send $78. To pay $20, send $21. For any other amounts, please contact the QWF office at 514-933-0878.
Log on to www.paypal.com and click "Send Money." Recipient's email address is admin@qwf.org In the "Note" box, provide your full name, email address, daytime phone number and the name of the workshop you're registering for.
Quebec Writers' Federation Workshops
Spring Session 2008
Develop your writing with the mentorship of an acclaimed professional writer and feedback from your peers.
Workshops take place at the QWF office, Suite 3, Atwater Library unless otherwise indicated.
WRITING NON-FICTION FROM DETAIL TO RETAIL
Two Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.: March 9 and 23
Wakefield Library, 20 Valley Drive, Wakefield
Workshop leader: Phil Jenkins
The first rule of art is to finish what you start. The second is to sell what you have to tell. …..rite – rewrite – rewrite - rewr…..
Non-fiction no longer rides second-class in Canadian literature, with the novelists up in first class ordering off the menu. In two four-hour workshop sessions held in the Wakefield library two Sundays apart, Phil Jenkins will reveal all he’s learnt about the craft of telling true stories, with the emphasis on anything but books on the first day, and creative non-fiction books on the second. Remember, it can only get better. There will be very useful hand-outs.
Topics we’ll cover in the two workshops include:
Session One - March 9
- • Brief philosophical discussion of the craft of writing.
- • Writing warm-up.
- • What’s in the non-fiction basket.
- • Some fine examples of non-fiction.
- • Discovering your inner topic.
- • Writing task.
- • Anti-bad writing techniques and making it gooder.
- • From screen to magazine.
- • Aphorisms to do write by.
Writing Assignment: To be completed and emailed to Phil before second session.
Session Two - March 23
- • How did we do?
- • What the heck is creative non-fiction?
- • The best in the field.
- • Gotta have a gimmick.
- • Have a great idea
- • Finishing what you start.
- • Getting near to publishers.
- • Handling success.
Phil Jenkins' first writing job was as the film critic for the Sunday Post of Canada in 1980. He branched into magazines and wrote for such publications as Ottawa Magazine, National Geographic Traveller, Equinox, Heritage Canada, Harrowsmith and Toronto Life. He also wrote audio guides, street theatre, songs, brochures, research papers, radio and stage plays. Phil’s first book was Fields of Vision, 1991 a national bestseller. Three books have emerged since: An Acre of Time, which won the Canadian Author’s Association Lela Common Award for History; River Song; and Beneath My Feet. He’s also completed two commissioned books: The Library Book: An Overdue History of the Ottawa Public Library and A Better Heart on the Ottawa Heart Institute. Since 1991 he’s been a city columnist for The Ottawa Citizen. Phil has given workshops for adults and high school students on selling English for a living for fifteen years.
To learn more about Phil Jenkins, or his writing, visit www.philjenkins.ca
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Eight-week workshops: $170 per course ($150 for QWF members) • All-day Saturday workshops $75 each (plus a $5 materials fee for Radio workshop) • Two-hour Saturday workshop $20 • Call to register and for cancellation policy • Payment by cheque to Quebec Writers' Federation, 1200 Atwater, Suite 3, Montreal H3Z 1X4, by cash at the QWF office (by appointment) or by PayPal. Note additional Paypal fees - to pay $170, send $176. To pay $150, send $155. To pay $80, send 83. To pay $75, send $78. To pay $20, send $21. For any other amounts, please contact the QWF office at 514-933-0878.
TO REGISTER, CALL (514) 933-0878
QWF gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts.
