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Novelist Gail Jones

“Magnets & Lightning Rods”: A Workshop for Emerging Writers

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In this masterclass, Gail will explore two key topics to provoke and energize creative writing. In “Writing from Loss”, the concept here is counterintuitive: it’s not necessarily an abundance of ideas or stories that provoke writing, but it could be a trace, a fragment, or the melancholy fleetingness of things (including life itself). Gail will […]

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Novelist Gail Jones

“Writing from Loss/Experiments with Form”: A Writing Masterclass

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Explore how to provoke and energize creative writing Join Gail Jones, the 2022 UTAS Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, for the first part of the masterclass considers “Writing from Loss”. Gail will address the recuperative and regenerating dimension of writing. What constitutes a trace; how might traces (memories, relics, skerricks) matter?  “Experiments with form” explores what might it mean

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