Are you an immigrant from the Middle East, Asia or Africa? Would you like to write about your experiences? Join the Vancouver Writers Fest and award-winning writer and teacher Aislinn Hunter in a 3 hour workshop on writing about place
Date/Time: Mar 10 2018, 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Vancouver, Suite GeniusAge: 18+
Cost: Free
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Through a mix of writing exercises and easy lessons on how to write well, this workshop will encourage writers working at all levels to think imaginatively about those places and landscapes called ‘home’.
Select pieces from the workshop will be collected in a book of writings called My Roots, produced by Blue Metropolis Festival.
Event Authors:
Aislinn Hunter is the author of six books: two books of poetry, three books of fiction and a book of lyric essays. She is a contributing editor at Arc Magazine and has contributed to numerous anthologies. She has a BFA in The History of Art and in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria, an MFA from The University of British Columbia, an MSc in Writing and Cultural Politics from The University of Edinburgh where she has just completed a PhD in English Literature. She teaches Creative Writing part-time at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and lives in Vancouver with her husband Glenn and two Border collies.
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