Welcome to the Wild Writers Festival Tickets Page:
PACKAGES
INCLUDES:
- up to 4 Writer’s Craft classes
- 1 Gourmet Boxed Lunch
- Friday November 2, 7:00pm: Terry Fallis in Conversation with Rob Reid at the CIGI Campus Auditorium
- Saturday November 3, 7:30pm: SPEAKEASY at The Jazz Room
+ How to Write Great Sex Scenes, featuring Russell Smith, Tamara Faith Berger, and Martha Schabas
+ Poetry Readings by Amanda Jernigan, Kerry-Lee Powell, and Patricia Young
+ Live Jazz with Dave Thompson and friends - 1-year subscription ($36 value)
- Free Events
$151.00 Value for $100.00
INCLUDES:
- up to 2 Writer’s Craft classes
- 1 Gourmet Boxed Lunch
- Friday November 2, 7:00pm: Terry Fallis in Conversation with Rob Reid at the CIGI Campus Auditorium
- Saturday November 3, 7:30pm: SPEAKEASY at The Jazz Room
+ How to Write Great Sex Scenes, featuring Russell Smith, Tamara Faith Berger, and Martha Schabas
+ Poetry Readings by Amanda Jernigan, Kerry-Lee Powell, and Patricia Young
+ Live Jazz with Dave Thompson and friends - 1-year subscription ($36 value)
- FREE events
OPEN REGISTRATION: If you would like to register for individual sessions, click the links below to purchase your tickets online. You may also order in person at Words Worth Books or by phone (8:30am-4pm) at 519-884-8111 ext. 28290.
EVENING EVENTS
Rob Reid in conversation with Terry Fallis; along with a presentation of TNQ contest winners
Friday, November 2 @ 7:00pm - CIGI Campus Auditorium $5 admission
+ FREE admission with a new print subscription to The New Quarterly Canadian Writers and Writing – use coupon code FALLIS at checkout when ordering online.
+ FREE admission with a hardcopy of Terry Fallis’ Up and Down from Words Worth Books
How to Write Great Sex Scenes, featuring Russell Smith, Tamara Faith Berger and Martha Schabas
+ Poetry Readings by Amanda Jernigan, Kerry-Lee Powell, and Patricia Young
+ Live Jazz with Dave Thompson and friends
Saturday, November 3 @ 7:30pm @ The Jazz Room – Speakeasy $15 admission
$20 WRITER’S CRAFT CLASSES (click for descriptions or to purchase)
10:00-11:15 Writer’s Craft Class – The Art of Blogging with Kerry Clare
10:00-11:15 Writer’s Craft Class – Poetry at Play with Patricia Young
11:30-12:45 Writer’s Craft Class – Writing from Life with Merilyn Simonds
11:30-12:45 Writer’s Craft Class – Adventures in Form with Diane Schoemperlen
1:30-2:45 Writer’s Craft Class – Writing Through the Lens of History with Helen Humphreys (SOLD OUT)
3:00-4:30 Writer’s Craft Class – Creating Characters with Elizabeth Hay
FREE EVENTS CLICK here> To register for free events.
Discussion: How to Get Published with Terry Fallis, Pamela Mulloy (Editor of TNQ), and Samantha Haywood (literary agent at TLA)
Wild Writer’s Panel: The Women – Alison Pick, Miranda Hill, Carrie Snyder, Kerry-Lee Powell
In Conversation: Tristanne Connolly with Jason Guriel
Wild Writers Panel: The Men – Alexander MacLeod, Tamas Dobozy, and Andrew Hood
Michaels Row the Boat Ashore – Michael Helm, Michael Redhill, Michael Crummey
A reading by Elizabeth Hay, Helen Humphreys, Merilyn Simonds
DESCRIPTIONS
Discussion: How to Get Published with Terry Fallis, Pamela Mulloy (Editor of TNQ), and Samantha Haywood (literary agent at TLA)
Moderated by Susan Scott, nonfiction editor with The New Quarterly.
Terry Fallis is the author of The Best Laid Plans, winner of the 2008 Leacock Medal for Humour and CBC Canada Reads for 2011. The sequel, The High Road (2010), was a finalist for the 2011 Leacock Medal. His third novel, Up and Down, hit bookstores in September and debuted on the Globe and Mail bestsellers list. Terry publishes with McClelland & Stewart. He blogs at www.terryfallis.com, and his twitter handle is @TerryFallis.
Samantha Haywood Samantha Haywood specialises in international publishing and has over 15 years’ experience selling primarily Canadian authors at home and abroad for volume publication and film/tv representation. Samantha launched her client list with the Transatlantic in 2004 after working in the foreign rights departments of Random House of Canada Ltd and Westwood Creative Artists. She represents a diverse and vibrant client list of authors, ranging from award-winning and bestselling fiction (novels and stories) to narrative nonfiction writers (investigative journalists and memoirs) and she has a passion for graphic novels.
Wild Writer’s Panel: The Women – Alison Pick, Miranda Hill, Carrie Snyder, Kerry-Lee Powell
The New Quarterly prides itself on its ability to recognize talent early on. The Wild Writers panels (See also The Men, below) will introduce you to some of the latest crop of wonderfully wild writers to appear in our pages. We’ve asked them to give you a little tease of their voices on the page then enter into discussion about how they found their way as writers and what the writing life looks like from the inside out.
Moderated by Amanda Jernigan
1:30-2:45 In Conversation: Tristanne Connolly with Jason Guriel
Expect the unexpected when TNQ poetry editor Tristanne Connolly sits down wiyh Jason Guriel, a writer whose “poet moments” she likens to “the best bootleg tracks: rare performances, alternate takes, the wonder of the unexpected, yet just right , in music you know so well that it’s etched in your synapses.” No topic is off the table: from the contemporary literary scene and precise depictions of countless poets and novelists, to creating poems that “give earthly weight to hat might otherwise float away—fashionable technology, fleeting music, obsolete pronouns, chilhood visions.”
Wild Writers Panel: The Men – Alexander MacLeod, Tamas Dobozy, and Andrew Hood
Moderated by Dave Worsley, co-owner of Words Worth Books
The New Quarterly prides itself on its ability to recognize talent early on. These panels (see The Women, above) will introduce you to some of the latest crop of wonderfully wild writers to appear in our pages. We’ve asked them to give you a tease of their voices on the page then enter into discussion about how they found their way as writers and what the writing life looks like from the inside out.
Michaels Row the Boat Ashore – Michael Helm, Michael Redhill, Michael Crummey
Moderated by Kim Jernigan
Spoiler alert! A gathering of literary Michaels will share their thoughts on endings and last lines—telling the story of the sometimes serendipitous ways they arrived at the ending to certain of their own novels and stories and/or reflecting on other writers’ endings they’ve admired. What gives a writer (or reader) a felt sense of the rightness of a story ending where and when and how it does? Why does one story demand closure, another want to soar off into mystery or uncertainty?
A reading by Elizabeth Hay, Helen Humphreys, Merilyn Simonds
CLICK here> To register for free events.
Click here to order a GOURMET BOXED LUNCH> if you have not purchased a Gold or Silver Package.
If you are interested in signing up in person, visit Words Worth Books to register. We are also happy to take your order by phone: The New Quarterly – 519-884-8111 ext 28290
