Category: International Events

Title: Wordfest

Start Date: October 10, 2017
End Date: October 15, 2017

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Description: Wordfest sparks lively, illuminating and meaningful conversations between Calgary’s readers and the world’s most engaging writers. Year-round literary events culminate in a festival every October, and are programmed to inspire Calgarians to live more creative and empathetic lives. Wordfest’s trademark events include readings, workshops, panel discussions and in-school presentations from authors writing in every genre and for all ages.

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Title: Kingston Readers and Writers Festival

Start Date: September 27, 2017
End Date: October 1, 2017

Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Description: Kingston WritersFest, a charitable cultural organization, brings the best of contemporary writers to Kingston to interact with audiences and other artists for mutual inspiration, education, and the exchange of ideas that literature provokes. Through readings, performance, onstage discussion and master classes, Kingston WritersFest fosters intellectual and emotional growth on a personal and community level and raises the profile of reading and literary expression in the community.

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Title: Ottawa International Writers Festival

Start Date: October 19, 2017
End Date: October 24, 2017

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: The imagination is our most valuable renewable resource. So, twice a year Ottawa’s Writers Festival convenes an international celebration of ideas to recharge our imaginations. From politics to poetry, science to music, history to thrillers, they celebrate the full diversity of the word and the gifted writers who guide us in our exploration of the world. Year-round special events keep the ideas coming between Festivals.

The Ottawa Writers Festival believes that a love of reading and learning should be nurtured throughout our lives and that literacy is a birthright. Whether offering writing workshops to the homeless, hosting a Nobel Laureate, organizing their biannual literary celebrations or bringing authors into area schools, their goal is the same: to create an environment that activates creativity and encourages the love of reading, learning and self-expression.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: October 8, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: October 15, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: October 1, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: October 22, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: October 29, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: September 24, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: November 5, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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