Aislinn Hunter: Writing as Witness
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About this Event
In this multi-genre workshop Aislinn will suggest aspects of craft and creative strategies that can enhance a writer's engagement with their real-life subject matter.
To witness is to pay attention and to observe; to bear witness is to carry a story within you even at a cost. This workshop will especially appeal to poets and non-fiction writers, or fiction writers with an interest in place or historical events.
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Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning novelist, poet and educator and the author of eight highly acclaimed books including her most recent, best-selling novel, The Certainties (2020 Knopf Canada). Her previous novel The World Before Us was a NYT Editor’s Choice book, a Guardian and NPR Book of the Year, and winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Linger, Still, her last book of poems, won the Fred Cogswell Prize for Excellence in Poetry. Her work has been adapted into music, dance, art, and film forms – including a feature film based on her novel Stay which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Hunter holds degrees in Creative Writing, Art History, and Writing and Cultural Politics as well as a PhD in English Literature. In 2018 she served as a Canadian War Artist working with Canadian and NATO forces at CFB Suffield. She teaches creative writing part-time at KPU and at SFU’s The Writers Studio. She lives in North Vancouver, BC.
Workshops are currently limited to only 12 people, and may be adjusted based on public health protocols at the time of the event.
We will be accepting a wait list for this event, as refunds will be accepted in light of potential Covid-19 or travel restrictions.
The venue will be sanitized between and throughout each workshop, and attendees will be provided health and safety instructions in accordance with WorkSafeBC and Provincial Health guidelines in the days prior to the festival.
