Upcoming Workshop, Classes & Events at TNSoW

Poetries of Metafiction: A Workshop with Meredith Quartermain

Sunday May 26, 2013 from 1 pm to 5 pm

Location: League of Canadian Poets, 172 Spadina Ave, Toronto

Cost: $90 (Limited to 12 Students)

Workshop participants will explore several metafictional set-ups, invent their own metafictional scenarios, sketch some initial drafts and try them out on each other. They will draw on group interaction to refine and extend their experiments.

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Advanced Prose Writing Facilitated by André Alexis

8 Weeks: 17 April – 5 June, 6:30-9:30pm (Wed. Evenings)

Location: 192 Spadina Avenue

Cost: $649 (Limited to 12 Students)

A rare opportunity to work in a master class setting with one of Canada’s great literary writers. This course, which is a lecture and assignment course, is centred around the idea of experimentation in writing and will help students to discover new approaches to writing. Each week, Mr Alexis will give a one hour (roughly) lecture. This will be followed by a look at assignments the participants have done over the week. The writing assignments are meant to be odd, difficult and, ultimately, to allow the writer to gain a new perspective on the act, both intellectual and aesthetic, of writing.

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A Reading Featuring Visiting Author Cara Benson, Julie Joosten, and Sachiko Murikami

Friday 19 April, 2013, 6:30-8:30 (readings will start at 7pm sharp)

Location: Supermarket, 268 Augusta, in the back room.

Cost: FREE, with books for sale

Toronto New School of Writing is pleased to host a reading featuring visiting author Cara Benson in conjunction with her Broken Form Workshop. Joining Cara for this event are poets Julie Joosten and Sachiko Murikami, who will also read from their work.

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Broken Form: Refracting the Real in Hybrid Writing A Workshop with Cara Benson

Saturday April 20, 2013, 1-4pm

Location: 401 Richmond Street West, Studio 408

Cost: $90 (Limited to 12 Students)

Attempts to represent a seamless reality through writing in order to convey something like meaning are not what this workshop is capable of fostering. We will glimpse, strike, utter, polyequivocate. Multiple approaches in language to form an incomplete whole are what we are after. Think assemblage, bricolage – yes. But not solely. There may well be through-line that speaks through voices, scene, poem, paragraph. Or the subject itself is shattered. Bring current writing projects or generate origins.

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The Power of Poetics: A Workshop with Brad Cran

Sunday April 21st, 2013 from 1 pm to 4 pm

Location: 192 Spadina Avenue

Cost: $30 (Limited to 12 Students)

At the center of Brad Cran’s literary endeavours has been one question: what role does the writer play in society and how can that role be leveraged to create positive social change? In his opening statement accepting the Poet Laureateship for the City of Vancouver, Cran said “To promote poetry itself is to fail poetry; the real challenge is to use poetry, thereby letting it be seen for what it is: the art of connection through critical thought.”

Join Brad Cran for a one-day lecture and workshop which will explore the role of the writer in society, the power of writing to change lives, and the idea that the greatest reward a life in writing will give a writer is not a literary prize but a mind that is defined and refined by thinking.

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Coït: A Poly-vocal Spatial Workshop with Chantal Neveu

When: 11 May 2013 2-5pm

Location: Supermarket: 268 Augusta, in the back room

Cost: $30

This workshop will be a group experience and discussion surrounding Chantal Neveu’s 2012 book Coït, as translated by Angela Carr. As a text, both in French and in English, Coït is built out of nine different “tubes” which represent nine difference spaces of language — localities where we talk, we walk, we write, we move.

Join writer and interdisciplinary artist Chantal Neveu in an collective experiment to “ear” the words, to “ear” the book, and to “move” a text into a performance that is intended to create a new linguistic “stage.” This will be a spacial experience of a text from the inside, to create a walking-reading, or even a dance-reading, and a unique poly-vocal performance.

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A Reading & Performance featuring Chantal Neveu, Jenny Sampirisi and Mark Goldstein

Friday 10 May, 2013, 6:30-8:30 PM (readings will start at 7pm sharp)

Location: Supermarket: 268 Augusta, in the back room

Cost: FREE

FREE, with books for sale

Chantal Neveu is a writer and an interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of the books coït and mentale (La Peuplade), Une Spectaculaire influence (l’Hexagone). Jenny Sampirisi is the author of the novel is/was (Insomniac Press 2008) and the poem-play Croak (Coach House Books 2011). Toronto writer Mark Goldstein is the author of three books of poetry published by the award-winning BookThug: Form of Forms (2012); Tracelanguage (2010); and After Rilke (2008).
This event is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Government of Canada through the National Translation Program.

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