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    • 24 Mar 2024
    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
    • Zoom
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    Overcoming our Fears to Write Powerful Stories

    Member Price: $15

    Non-Member Price is $25

    **This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 30 days.

    **We are changing our registration systems, so reminders may look a little different from normal after we migrate to the new platform.


    Description: In this 1.5-hour interactive online workshop, award-winning author and writing coach Gail Anderson-Dargatz will discuss how to overcome our fears to write powerful stories.

    Our fears can stop us from finishing a book -- or even starting it. We may feel we need to stick to writing only what we know, and write from personal experience, but then worry about what Mom will think. And we so often avoid our protagonist’s conflicts, for the same reasons we avoid our own. The result: passive protagonists and wandering storylines. Author and writing coach Gail Anderson-Dargatz will draw from more than twenty-five years of experience as a writer, teacher and developmental editor to explore the many ways we avoid conflict in our projects and our writing lives and offer solutions that will help kickstart your writing and help you develop your project to the fullest.

    Audience: This workshop is geared towards fiction writers, however much of it will apply to those working non-fiction projects as well.

    Presenter Bio: Gail Anderson-Dargatz's novels The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees were both short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her thrillers The Almost Wife and The Almost Widow were national bestsellers. Gail also writes hi-lo books for the educational market. She taught for nearly a decade in the CW MFA program at UBC, and now mentors writers online. For more, or to check out her mentoring and editing services, see her website: gailanderson-dargatz.ca


    Digital Doors Open at 1:55 PM, Event Starts at 2:00 PM

    • 26 Mar 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
    • Zoom
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    Join us Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00 pm Pacific for a Regional Spotlight featuring UBC Okanagan MFA Poets with host Meaghan Hackinen and readers Slava Bart, Tosh Sherkat, Amy Wang, and Miriam Cummings. Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. We look forward to seeing you there!

    Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!


    Slava Bart is a first-year international MFA student at UBCO. He comes from Israel and enjoys multilingual and collaborative writing with a penchant for venturing deep into the past and far into the future, reaching across borders and disciplines. His thesis in poetry reinterprets the books of Genesis and Exodus using multiple languages to tell a personal story of the loss of home after the collapse of the USSR.







    Tosh Sherkat is a Persian-Doukhobor settler-of-colour born on Sinixt territory in Nelson, BC, living on Syilx territory. Their poetry and fiction has appeared in a number of North American publications, most recently carte blanche and Terrain.org, and is forthcoming at filling Station and Acta Victoriana. They are currently an MFA student at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).







    Amy Wang is a Chinese-Canadian writer based on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People. Their work is forthcoming or published in Paper Shell, The Goose, The Garden Statuary and exhibited in IGNITE! Youth-Driven Arts Festival. They are a first-year MFA student at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).






    Miriam Cummings is an interdisciplinary artist who makes performance, plays, poetry, and prose on the unceded territory of the Syilx Nation. Based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal for more than a decade, Miriam co-founded Hopegrown Productions. Her chapbook, Words I don't say aloud, was published in 2023 by broke press (Vernon, BC). Miriam teaches acting at Concordia University and with the Embodied Voice Collective. She is completing a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.





    Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelonghunt for exceptional cycling routes, both on and off the pavement. Her cross-continental bike race memoir, Shifting Gears, was released by NeWest Press in 2023. This year, Meaghan is gearing up to compete in the Tour Divide: a self-supported 4,400-kilometre mountain bike race down the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta to Antelope Wells, New Mexico. 





    *This event will be recorded.

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