Join Billeh Nickerson, celebrated author and editor, as he reveals the trade secrets of getting your work published in literary journals.

Learn valuable tips from an industry professional, including the key do's and don'ts of cover letters and what writers can learn from rejection letters (believe it!). This workshop is as fun as it is instructional.

Billeh Nickerson is the former editor of Event and PRISM International, two of Canada's most prestigious literary journals. He is currently working with Mariko Tamaki on Permanent Markers, an anthology of contemporary Canadian writing to be published by Tightrope Books. He lives in Vancouver, where he teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Read his Geist work at geist.com, and visit him online at billeh.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.

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Writing the Narrative Scene
Location: SFU Harbour Centre—Seminar Room 2290
Date: November 23, 2013
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 Billeh Nickerson's Getting It Into Print, plus a one-year subscription!)