Danny Ramadan: How to Write Dialogue
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About this Event
Dialogue can be the best tool in your author's toolbox, or it can be tiresome and intimidating. In this workshop Danny will explain why he initially struggled with dialogue in his writing, and how he overcame it.
You will learn how to appreciate, and even cautiously employ, authentic dialogue in works of fiction.
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Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker and LGBTQ-refugees activist.
The Clothesline Swing, Ramadan’s debut novel, won the Independent Publisher Book Award for LGBT Fiction, The Canadian Authors Association’s award for Best Fiction, and was shortlisted for Evergreen Award, Sunburst Award and a Lambda Award. It was long listed for Canada Reads 2018. The novel is translated to French, German and Hebrew.
His children’s book, Salma the Syrian Chef, was released in March 2020 by Annick Press. He is currently working on his next novel, The Foghorn Echoes, a collection of short fiction, The Syrian Survival Notebook, and a YA novel, Son of the Silk Maker.
He was named among the Top Immigrants to Canada 2017 as well as awarded the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Award for Excellency. He is currently finishing his Masters in Fine Arts – Creative Writing at UBC and lives with his husband, Matthew Ramadan, in Vancouver.
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.
