About
The purpose of the TORONTO NEW SCHOOL of WRITING is to offer creative and critical writing workshops led by writers who have an interest in art creation moreso than marketability. The TNSoW fills what we see as a huge gap in the writing and educational communities by offering courses that don’t necessarily lead to a “marketable” end product, like a crime novel or a screenplay, but actually engage people in the process and art of thinking about language and writing. The collective is invested in framing this as a community-building, rather than an academic, endeavor. Workshops held by the TORONTO NEW SCHOOL of WRITING will give students an opportunity to gain a critical understanding of innovative or experimental literature as well as view that literature as a writing practice.
Artistically, participating writers specialize in a range of genres, including but not limited to concrete, sound, list, translation, performance, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, narrative, conceptual and long poems. Workshops have been conceptualized by writers in the field using the TORONTO NEW SCHOOL of WRITING’s mandate of providing a writing experience for participants (actual art creation) and a critical framework for the chosen genre. Students will have the satisfaction of generating texts over the duration of the workshops and will be able to locate their art within the larger context of experimental poetry.
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