M ansfield Press editor Stuart Ross has been leading innovative fiction and poetry workshops for well over two decades. In June, he’s bringing two of his most popular sessions to Toronto.
STUART ROSS’S POETRY BOOT CAMP
Saturday, June 2, 10 am-5 pm (w/ 45-minute lunch break)
Christie/Dupont area
$90 includes materials and light snacks
Prepayment guarantees your spot.
To register, write Stuart at razovsky@gmail.com.
A relaxed but intensive one-day workshop for beginning poets, experienced poets, stalled poets, and haikuists who want to get beyond three lines. Poetry Boot Camp focuses on the pleasures of poetry and the riches that spontaneity brings, through lively directed writing strategies and relevant readings from the works of poets from Canada and abroad. We’ll also touch on revision and collaboration. You will write in ways you’d never imagined. Arrive with an open mind, and leave with a heap of new poems!
PLOTLESS FICTION
Sunday, June 3, 10 am – 5 pm
Christie/Dupont area
Fee: $90 includes materials and light snacks.
Prepayment guarantees your spot.
To register, write Stuart at razovsky@gmail.com.
Fictioneer and writing teacher Stuart Ross offers a relaxed, supportive workshop for writers at all levels. Plotless Fiction explores the possibilities of fiction beyond the constraints of narrative and the artificiality of plot. In this hands-on session, you will be introduced to writers from around the globe who push against the definitions of the story, and you will produce a half-dozen or so of your own short works, using a variety of enjoyable, challenging writing strategies.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Stuart is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, most recently You Exist. Details Follow. (Anvil Press), but also including the acclaimed I Cut My Finger (Anvil Press) and Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected (ECW Press). His second story collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, earned positive reviews across the country, went into a second printing after only two months, and won the ReLit Prize for Short Fiction. His plotless novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew also won great critical acclaim. Stuart is editor for Mansfield Press, where he has his own imprint, and Fiction & Poetry Editor for This Magazine. He also writes a regular column — “Hunkamooga” — for the literary magazine sub-Terrain. In fall 2010 Stuart was Writer in Residence at Queen’s University in Kingston. For nearly 25 years, he’s led workshops in fiction, poetry, editing, and memoir across Canada.
