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IN PERSON The Shape of Story
A 3-DAY INTENSIVE | TUESDAY TO THURSDAY | AUGUST 13-15, 2024| 10AM-3PM
with Judah Leblang
Can't wait for When Words Collide? Embrace the pre-festival buzz with this 3-day intensive.
AWCS MEMBER & WHEN WORDS COLLIDE ATTENDEES: $250.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $$350.00
Spend 3 intense days revising and refining your story arc, clarifying your theme, and building your scenes and narrative to keep readers turning the pages of your memoir or essay collection. While the focus of the workshop is on nonfiction, many of these exercises and techniques can also be helpful for fiction writers.
THIS CLASS WILL TAKE PLACE IN PERSON AT THE ALEXANDRA WRITERS CENTRE SOCIETY | 460, 1721, 29th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2T 6T7
Judah Leblang is a Boston-based writer, teacher, and storyteller. He is the author of the essay collection, Finding My Place (Lake Effect Press, 2012) and the memoir Echoes of Jerry (Red Giant Books, 2019). He has performed his one-man show, "It's Now or Never" at Calgary Fringe--(Best of Festival 2019) and in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Chicago, and Boston. His radio pieces have been broadcast on 200 NPR and ABC-radio network stations in the US and on several Canadian stations. He teaches memoir-writing at GrubStreet in Boston, at Literary Cleveland, and at the Alexandra Writers' Centre in Calgary.
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