Humber Masterclasses

In Praise of Process

Alissa York

5:30pm

Monday, September 25, 2023

90 mins

Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts.

In Praise of Process: Finding What Works

Do you have a problem with your writing? Award-winning author and Humber School for Writers professor Alissa York has the solution: in a word, process. Join us for a 90-minute creative writing masterclass on what writers really do: follow inspiration, encounter challenges, try and try again. All writing levels welcome.

Presented by TIFA in partnership with the Humber School for Writers.

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How to attend

$49

Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts.

In Praise of Process: Finding What Works

Presented by TIFA in partnership with the Humber School for Writers.

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Featured Authors

Alissa York

Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), Fauna and The Naturalist (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction). Her new novel, Far Cry, came out in March 2023. Stories from Alissa's short fiction collection, Any Given Power, have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Brick magazine and elsewhere. In 2018, she won the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award for a Writer in Mid-Career. Alissa has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Toronto, where she teaches at the Humber School for Writers.