Poetry Writing Day, with Marion Lougheed - IN PERSON (Toronto)
About this Event
Spend a day honing your poetry skills!
Topics include:
- Finding Your Personal Voice
- Is There Such a Thing as Bad Poetry?
- Poetic Techniques and What They're Good For
- What's In a Line Break?
- Poetry and Wellness
Rich with generative writing exercises, the poetry workshop will help you develop your writing practice through friendly engagement with similarly motivated peers.
You will have opportunities to optionally share your work throughout. Sharing your words and offering your thoughts on others' work will be encouraged, but not mandatory.
I welcome writers of all backgrounds and walks of life, and to make it accessible to everyone, I am offering one Pay-What-You-Can spot.
We will break for half an hour for lunch. You are welcome to bring food with you.
Coffee and a variety of teas will be available onsite at no extra cost.
About the Organizer:
Marion Lougheed is a writer, anthropologist and editor who grew up in Canada, Benin, Belgium, and Germany. Her poetry book "Baggage Claim" delves into this experience and is dedicated to everyone whose hometown is a suitcase.
Marion's poem "Rooftops" won the Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge, and "Pavane for a Dead Letter" was featured in the League of Candian Poets' "Poem In Your Pocket Day" series. Marion runs Off Topic Publishing and ML Edits. She also writes fiction, which has appeared in This Will Only Take A Minute: 100 Canadian Flashes (Guernica Editions, 2022), Reflex Press and The Arcanist, among others.
Her work was shortlisted for the Sunlight Press Flash Fiction Contest, longlisted for Furious Fiction and the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize, and chosen as a finalist in the "Dystopian" category for Globe Soup's 7-Day Writing Challenge, among other things.
In addition to writing and editing, she has written for The Guardian, Psychology Today, Writer's Digest, and others. Meanwhile, she is slowly working on a PhD dissertation in social anthropology about political belongings, cosmopolitan aspirations, and identity at an international school in Germany. Maybe by the time we gather for this event, the dissertation will be done. Fingers crossed.
Find her at https://linktr.ee/marionlougheed
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 0.00 to CAD 169.00
