With Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Scholar Caroline Levine defines form “as any arrangement of elements—any ordering, patterning, or shaping” in a literary work. Form describes a visual habit, and it is also an expression of a writer’s style. We all write “formal” stories, essays, and poems, though some with a great deal of awareness and others with less. In this workshop, attendees will 1) look at the ways various Indigenous writers understand form and 2) reflect on or better draw out the formal qualities of their own work.
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta. He is an Associate Prof. in the School of Creative Writing at UBC. He is the author of six books, most recently Coexistence and The Idea of an Entire Life.