Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. Alberto Manguel, will lead this 90-minute masterclass. All writing levels welcome. More details coming soon. Presented by TIFA in partnership with the Humber School for Writers.
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Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. What is tone? How is it related to voice? Or mood? Or register? These aspects of writing feel nebulous compared to more concrete aspects such as setting or tense or perspective, but they are […]
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 […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. Finding your voice. As readers, many of us have had the experience of being seduced by the voice of an electrifying writer. But what do we mean when we talk about “voice”? And how […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. Writing for an Audience: for whom are we writing, and how to write for them This 90-minute creative writing masterclass, led by acclaimed author Saeed Teebi, will instruct on the importance of audience, how […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. On Seeing: What Observation Means to Poetry In “On Seeing,” we will look at close observation in poetry and how it relates to emotional expression. Participants will look at the contrast between an observational […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. These days, non-fiction, in particular the kind bannered as ‘memoir,’ expects honesty and intimacy above all else. And yet, the instant words go to work and language begins to move, things on the page […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. Home – Leaving, Returning & Finding it Elsewhere Home evokes powerful emotions. Whether longing for it, escaping from it or returning to it, home is an enduring source of creativity. This 90-minute masterclass led […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. “Only when the infinite has edges am I capable of making art.” – Bernard Cooper Memoir differs from autobiography or any ‘whole life’ retelling. In this 90-minute participatory workshop led by acclaimed author Kyo […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. Creating a vivid sense of place is vital in both fiction and non-fiction, as it allows the reader to feel as if they are really living in the world the writer has created. In […]
Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. World-building for Literary Fiction Genre writers take world-building very seriously, and so should writers of literary fiction. World-building, the world your characters move in, is crucial if your fiction is to be an immersive […]
