Postscript Intimacies: Writing Poems As Letters with Adèle Barclay

Join Massy Arts and Adèle Barclay Oct 11th from 6-8pm for a writing workshop fundraiser. Postscript Intimacies: Writing Poems as letters. Sliding scale: $50-75 with 100% going to Gaza Kinder Relief

Max registration: 18 participants

Venue & Accessibility

The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver. We are located in the former MING WO building.

Registration is free or by donation and required for entry.

The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.

Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.

For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility

Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.

Workshop details: Postscript Intimacies: Writing Poems as Letters

This workshop will focus on conjuring an exploratory atmosphere for writers to dive into the generative potential of letter writing for poetry. We will examine how the form and history of the epistolary mode dovetails with poetry. Together we will read examples of poems that play with address, audience, intimacy, public/private spheres, and voice, and we will engage in writing prompts to interrogate new avenues for our poetry. Please bring paper and writing utensils and your curiosity!

About the Facilitator:

Adèle Barclay’s (she/they) poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Pinch, The Heavy Feather Review, The Malahat, glitterMOB, PRISM, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award, The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and The Fiddlehead’s 2022 Fiction Prize. Their debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Renaissance Normcore was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award and placed third for the 2020 Fred Cogswell Award. They teach literature and writing at Capilano University.

Host or Publisher Massy Arts Society