WOTS Virtual Workshop: Creating Time & Space to Write

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WOTS presents a panel full of tips on how to balance a writing career with this hectic thing called life. Presented by The Chang School.

Presented by <a href="https://continuing.torontomu.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education</a>Trying to figure out how to balance writing with all your other life obligations? Join our panel of authors as they discuss how they manage creative projects alongside children, households, day jobs, chronic pain, and more. This session will be choc-full of tips, tricks, rituals, and mindsets to help you make time and space for your very own writing career. Bring a notepad!

<h3>A﻿bout the Facilitators</h3>Melissa Yi loves to do all the things, from emergency medicine to jointly raising two kids and two rescue dogs to writing the Hope Sze thrillers. Her secret weapons include a supportive family, saying no, and learning how to sleep. For more tips, find her at www.myi.ninja.Nathan Caro Fréchette is a disabled, queer, transgender designer, sequential artist, publisher, and author. He has published over a dozen short stories, both graphic and prose, as well as five novels, three graphic novels, one co-authored collection, and two works of nonfiction. He has taught creative writing over a decade, has a degree in Film Studies and another in Sequential Art; he was the founder and director of the French Canadian literary magazine Histoires à Boire Debout, an editor for the French Canadian graphic novel publisher Premières Lignes, and is a co-founder of the Ottawa-based publisher Renaissance. He was finalist for a Prix Aurora Award in 2020 for his design work, was the Publisher Guest of Honour at Can-Con’s 2022 edition, and sits on the LitDistCo board of directors.Tonya Liburd has the honour of her work being used in Nisi Shawl’s Writing The Other workshops and in Tananarive Due’s UCLA Horror course (which featured Get Out’s director Jordan Peele as a guest lecturer) as examples of code switching. Her poetry has been nominated for the 2017 &amp; 2018 Rhysling Awards and longlisted in the 2015 Carter V. Cooper (Vanderbilt)/Exile Short Fiction Competition. Her fiction has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly and over at Barnes &amp; Noble’s SFF blog. She is also editor of The Expanse Magazine. You can find her blogging at www.Tonya.ca or on Twitter at @somesillywowzer.T﻿he moderator for this session, Sienna Tristen (they/them) is an author, poet, and literary organizer living in Treaty 3 territory who explores queer platonic partnership, the nonhuman world, and mythmaking in their work. The first installment of their award-winning fantasy duology The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming came out from indie arts collective The Shale Project in 2018; the sequel released in October 2022. You can find their poetry in Augur Magazine and Plenitude, and their chapbook hortus animarum: a new herbal for the queer heart is out with Frog Hollow Press.

The Word On The Street is an annual celebration of storytelling, ideas and imagination, hosting Canada's largest FREE book and magazine festival annually and promoting great books by Canadian and Indigenous authors year-round.

At The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University, we’re transforming university continuing education. With 1,500 course offerings and over 80 career-related certificate programs including Publishing, Graphic Communications, and Public Relations, we’re addressing the needs of continuous learners across Canada and internationally. Our comprehensive support services, highly experienced instructors, and strong connections to industry help learners develop their capacity to contribute to a socially progressive innovation economy. In alignment with learners' preferences for flexibility, all of our courses may be completed online. For more information, visit <a href="https://continuing.torontomu.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">continuing.torontomu.ca</a>.

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