Writing Workshop with Jordan Abel

To accompany his reading at "Dear Friends &", writer-in-residence Jordan Abel will host a workshop for writers.

On the workshop Abel says:

"In this creative writing workshop we will be focusing on overcoming obstacles in our writing practices through a problem-based approach. In this session, we will tackle central issues in your writing—questions that may arise include engagements with ethics, narrative, positionality, and representation—and we will explore how to find your way through these issues in a way that makes for engaging, dynamic writing."

This workshop is open to writers working in any genre. A total of 12 in-person workshop spaces are available.

The registration fee is waived for Indigenous writers. If you are an Indigenous writer interested in participating in this workshop, please contact The Capilano Review at [email protected].

Workshop registration includes a complimentary one-year subscription to The Capilano Review.

Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of the award-winning poetry collections The Place of Scraps (2013), Un/inhabited (2014), Injun (2017), and NISHGA (2022), and the novel Empty Spaces (2023). Abel completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University in 2019, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing. 

The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.

Presented in partnership with The Capilano Review as part of their annual Writers-in-Residence program with support from the BC Arts Council.

Host or Publisher Western Front