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• Sunday Webinar: Great Story: 12 Writing Tips from Aristotle's Poetics

  • When
    5 May 2024
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Great Story: 12 Writing Tips from Aristotle's Poetics

  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: Aristotle’s Poetics was the first book to offer advice as to what makes a story . . . a story, and what makes for a great story, and it is as relevant today as when gods strode the earth. We will learn his top twelve tips, how to build our own tragedy, how to show moral ambiguity, and how to create characters who will make your readers cry their eyes out.

  Audience: Anyone and everyone.

  Presenter bio: Claire’s first novel, The Reckoning of Boston Jim (Touchwood Editions) was nominated for the Giller Prize as well as for the BC Book Prize. Her second novel, The Dark (Random House, Double Day), was nominated for the Canadian Author’s award. Claire’s award winning short fiction has been published in Writer’s Magazine, The Hourglass, Canadian Author, The Tulane Review, The Dalhousie Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review, amongst others. She teaches historical fiction at Uvic’s Continuing education dept and offers editing and monthly classes through her website: www.mulliganmethod.ca.

  Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm

  
  

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• Book Club for Writers: "Breathing the Page" by Betsy Warland

  • When
    9 May 2024
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    7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Member Price: Free (but donations are welcome and appreciated)

  Non-Member Price: $10

  **Digital doors open at 6:55 pm; event starts at 7:00 pm

  **Portions of this event will be recorded and made available to registrants to view for 30 days. Breakout room discussions will not be recorded.

  
  

  The Federation of BC Writers invites you to participate in our newest programming initiative: Book Club for Writers! This online book club for writers offers an opportunity to read and discuss books related to the craft of writing. Book Club events are 75 minutes long and feature a combination of small group discussion using breakout rooms, large group discussion in the main room, as well as an opportunity to hear the author’s insights and ask questions.

  
  

  Our first pick is Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing (Cormorant Books) by award-winning author and former FBCW Ambassador, Betsy Warland, who will be joining us to answer audience questions and share her insights. Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) to receive the purchase links, discussion questions, and event link. Purchase the book, review the discussion questions, and when it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. We look forward to seeing you there!

  Presenter bio: 

  Betsy Warland has published 13 books of creative nonfiction and poetry. The second edition of Warland’s 2010 Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing, came out with an additional 10 new essays in 2023. 

  Former director of The Writers Studio at SFU, and the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, Warland co-founded the Creative Nonfiction Collective. Manuscript consultant, editor and teacher, Warland received the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2016. In 2022, an annual national prize, The VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award, was  launched.
  

  Steps:

  1. Register here to receive the discussion questions and event link.

  2. Purchase your print or electronic version of the book

     • Find Breathing the Page at a bookstore near you on Shop Local 

     • Purchase the ebook on Kobo or Kindle 

  3. Read the book and consider the discussion questions (emailed 2 weeks before meeting)

  4. Join the Book Club meeting using the Zoom link to discuss your responses and hear from the author!

  Please email Meaghan@bcwriters.ca if you have any questions, or would like to suggest a book.

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• 2024 FBCW Writers Summit

  • Start
    27 May 2024
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    2 Jun 2024
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    8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for 7 days of digital learning from May 27th to June 2, 2024.

  Visit the summit information page for full details.

  Summit Info Page

  The theme this year is “for the love of genre.” We want to celebrate our love for all genres and to glean the best learnings from each to strengthen our works regardless of what realm our writing inhabits. Whether you consider yourself a genre writer or not, there will be something for everyone. We look forward to welcoming you all digitally to the summit in May.

  Presenters:

  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Tanya Boteju
  • AJ Devlin
  • Joseph Dandurand
  • Grace Fong
  • Cornelia Hoogland
  • Jen Landels
  • Tara McGuire
  • Premee Mohamad
  • Jenn Sommersby
  • Lydia Kwa
  • And more!

  Topics/Genres

  • Memoir
  • Romance
  • YA audiences
  • Mystery/Thriller
  • Poetry
  • Travel/Adventure Writing
  • Magic Realism
  • Historical Fiction
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
  • Storytelling
  • and more!

  We are continuing our much loved format of multiple events spaced out over each day.  No sessions will be running concurrently.  We have 27 sessions scheduled including our keynote, workshops, gala, and writing sprints. Back by popular demand are also our blue Pencil sessions from the Darling Axe.

  
  

  KEYNOTE:

  Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. Currently, she is the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence and an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod. She is the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com
  

  Premee will be presenting a keynote on May 27th at 11am and a Workshop over the course of the Summit.

  SESSION TIMES:

  May 27th: 11am, 2pm, and 7pm

  May 28th-June 2nd: 9am (Writing Sprints), 11am , 2pm, and 7pm (Session)

  
  

  
  

  
  

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