Fiction Workshop with francesca ekwuyasi
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Epistolary fictionโtold through letters, emails, texts, or journal entriesโoffers a compelling way to build character, tension, and voice. In this two-hour workshop, weโll explore how constraint fuels creativity, analyzing examples and experimenting with different forms. With guided prompts and conversation, you are invited to write short pieces in various genres using epistolary techniques.
francesca ekwuyasi is a learner, artist, and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Butter Honey Pig Bread was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Dublin Literary Award. CBC's Canada Reads: Canada's Annual Battle of the Books selected Butter Honey Pig Bread as one of five contenders in 2021 where it came in 2nd place. Forthcoming October 24th is Curious Sounds: a Dialogue in Three Movements (Arsenal Pulp 2023) an art book collaboration with Roger Mooking