Literary Workshops with Gord Grisenthwaite

Stone and Sky will be hosting Literary Workshops lead by Gord Grisenthwaite at 12pm noon on September 14, 15, 16, 17 in the Quarry. All are welcome, no registration required, and entry is free!

Interfusional Storytelling: This workshop will demonstrate how to blend written and oral storytelling methods to develop an Interfusional story.

Channeling Anger: At times we’ve all been “[M]ad as hell, and [we’re] not going to take it any more.” In this workshop we will re-channel anger’s potential destructiveness to creative fuel.

Magical Realism and Fabulist Fiction: This workshop will explain the differences between Magical Realism and fabulist fiction, and study aspects of Magical Realism as practiced by Gabriel García Márquez and Thomas King.

Writing Trauma: In this workshop we will consider how scenes of trauma depicted in short fiction and literary essays work or fail, and how to build a traumatic scene that conveys compelling trauma that doesn’t trivialize the event or its characters.