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Insects Eat Birds: Elements of Surprise in Fiction

With Madhur Anand

Saturday, November 8
9:30AM – 11:30AM
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (1113 Marginal Road, Halifax)
$30.00

Description

Students will read Anand’s short story “Insects Eat Birds” and be asked to identify their personal moments (“tipping points”) of narrative surprise. After a collective discussion, participants will be led through a series of short writing exercises involving either real museum species or photos of these specimens to develop fragments of a short story.

Speakers

  • Madhur Anand's debut book of creative non-fiction This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was also a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. To Place a Rabbit is her first novel. Anand is a professor and the director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Ontario.