Expand Your Universe with Anakana Schofield

Expand Your Universe with Anakana Schofield

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to expand their ideas, literary visions, and enhance their literary departures through exercises that explore different cross-disciplinary realms.

Writing and reading are solitary activities. They are (usually) not performed in collaborative spaces, therefore the writer's imagination must become its own collaborative space. This workshop will encourage participants to furnish his or her upstairs chamber with a bit more variety and a few more open windows. To sustain a writing practice one must be interested in what one is doing and must read towards that which one wants to write. Participants will work according to Borges’ adage that “every writer… is fated to have a personal universe” and will encounter examples of innovative fiction and literary movements, working autonomously to discover techniques and entry points that may help unravel their conceptual ideas. 

Target audience: All. This workshop will not address genre novel or plot concerns. Participants can work in any language.

Attendees should bring: Pen, notebook, and an open mind. All work will be generated in the workshop through exercises and responses to prompts. No need for samples.

Presented in partnership with the Guelph Public Library.