Join Marcello Di Cintio, award-winning writer and journalist, as he offers practical tips for transforming your travel experiences into engaging prose.

Expect to learn the art of observation, descriptive writing techniques and how to develop the people you meet on your travels into engaging characters.

Di Cintio will also discuss the ethical issues of travel writing, and how to portray people and groups with respect and sympathy. He is travelling from Calgary to host this workshop and seats are limited.

Marcello Di Cintio is the author of three travelogues: Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa; Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran; and Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, which won the 2013 Shaugnessy Cohen Prize. He lives in Calgary.

Read his Geist work at geist.com.

The scene is the dramatic heart of fiction, where plot, setting and character come together on the page. In this intensive workshop we will study examples of successful narrative scenes, analyze their elements, including the effective use of dialogue, and, of course, write them. Write lots of them!

This workshop is useful for both short-fiction writers and novelists. It is led by Caroline Adderson, a fiction writer and teacher.

Caroline Adderson is the author of three novels, The Sky Is Falling, A History of Forgetting and Sitting Practice (winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2004), and two collections of short stories, Bad Imaginings and Pleased to Meet You. She lives in Vancouver.

Visit Caroline's website

Writing the Narrative Scene
Location: SFU Harbour Centre—room TBA
Date: May 3, 2014
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Price: $50 (includes a one-year subscription to Geist for yourself or a friend)
Workshop Bundle: $75 (includes this workshop and Marcello Di Cintio's Art of Travel Writing, plus a one-year subscription!)