EXPERIMENT AND PLAY: THE HERMIT CRAB ESSAY

Like a hermit crab that inhabits various shells discarded by other creatures, a hermit crab essay (coined by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola) makes a home in an existing form. Practice telling a story in unusual and unexpected ways in this one-hour, hands-on workshop with creative non-fiction writer Taslim Jaffer.

About The Facilitator

Taslim Jaffer

Taslim Jaffer is a writer, editor and writing instructor from Surrey, B.C. with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of King’s College. Her bylines appear in Macleans, CBC, WestCoast Families, Peace Arch News & more. She is the winner of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Collective/Humber Literary Review contest and recipient of a 2021 Silver Canadian Online Publishing Award. Taslim has been teaching memoir and expressive writing in community and rehabilitative settings since 2015 and is a panelist, moderator, and instructor at literary arts festivals. She is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity and Home (Book*hug Press, 2024) and the 2024 City of Richmond Writer-in-Residence. Her work-in-progress is an essay collection exploring the evolution of her family across 5 generations and 3 continents.

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