JOIN US ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 FOR A FULL DAY OF CREATIVE ACTIVITIES!
All events will be auto-captioned and live on Zoom. Please contact us at info@inkwellworkshops.com if you need any other accommodations.
We’ll be raffling off fantastic prizes all day. Winners will be contacted by email, so you do not need to be in attendance to win a prize!
Yoga for Writers w/ Josh Cooper | 11 am - 12 pm EST
Josh Cooper is a Toronto-born yoga instructor. He teaches a diverse group of students from yoga studios to parks and festivals; sports teams to daycares. When not doing yoga, you can often find Josh in the kitchen.
A disability friendly yoga class. Release tension from the body in this accessible and delicious sequence specially crafted for writers. We’ll visit key spots with love and attention, so you can feel nourished and inspired to write. Please have a sturdy chair (preferably armless) and tennis ball (or similar type ball).
Contact us at info@inkwellworkshops.com to let us know how we can best accommodate your disabilities.
$10 general entry | $5 disabled* folks | FREE for InkWell participants & Routes members
* Including chronic illness, autism, ADHD, Madness, mental health and addiction issues, Deaf and hard of hearing
Raffle Prize: A literary mental-health prize pack including 3 anthologies from InkWell Books and a one-year subscription to Open Minds Quarterly.
Writing the Self w/ Eufemia Fantetti | 2 - 3:30 pm EST
Eufemia Fantetti holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her short fiction collection, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love, was runner up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and winner of the Bressani Prize. My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir was released in 2019. She teaches writing at Humber College and co-edits Humber Literary Review.
A generative writing class that will explore the me, myself, & I in memoir and essays. You won’t be asked to share what you write. No pressure, no comparison. Just prompts, prompts, prompts so that you’ll walk away with new writing.
$20 general entry | $10 disabled* folks | FREE for InkWell participants & Routes members
* Including chronic illness, autism, ADHD, Madness, mental health and addiction issues, Deaf and hard of hearing
Raffle Prize: A literary prize pack from Flying Books, including a signed copy of Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados and career advice/feedback from the renowned Canadian fiction editor Martha Sharpe.
Books to Break Barriers: Writers Panel w/ Carrianne Leung, Rowan McCandless, & Dominik Parisien, Moderated by Kim Davids Mandar | 7 - 8:15 pm EST
In this panel discussion, we'll address barriers, both internal and external, and question how they challenge the wellness, creativity, and publishing success of experienced writers who live with mental health issues, chronic illness, and disability. How have writers pushed back by crafting other narratives in their fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction? Join us for a barrier-smashing conversation!
$15 general entry | $8 disabled* folks | FREE for InkWell participants & Routes members
* Including chronic illness, autism, ADHD, Madness, mental health and addiction issues, Deaf and hard of hearing
Raffle Prizes: The 2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction shortlist and the 2020 shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize!
Carrianne Leung is a fiction writer and educator. Her debut novel, The Wondrous Woo was shortlisted for the 2014 Toronto Book Awards. Her collection of linked stories, That Time I Loved You was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by CBC, shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards 2019, long listed for Canada Reads 2019 and awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award 2019. She is currently working on a new novel, titled The After.
Rowan McCandless lives and writes from Winnipeg, which is located on Treaty 1 territory, the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, Dene, Métis, and Oji-Cree Nations. Her writing has appeared in print and online journals such as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Room, Skin Deep, The Nasiona, and in the anthology, Black Writers Matter. In 2018, Rowan’s short story, Castaways, was long-listed for the Journey Prize. In 2019, she won the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize. In 2020, she received gold, as well as an honourable mention, with the National Magazine Awards-- one-of-a-kind storytelling. Her essay collection, Persephone’s Children will be published in 2021 with Dundurn Press. She is a member of The Fiddlehead’s Advisory Board.
Dominik Parisien is a writer, editor, and poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Side Effects May Include Strangers (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020) and the chapbook We, Old Young Ones (Frog Hollow Press, 2019). He also writes creative nonfiction and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Maisonneuve, PRISM International, Queen's Quarterly, and Riddle Fence, among others. Much of his work engages with disability, and in 2019 he won the Hugo Award for co-editing Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual French Canadian and he lives in Toronto.
Kim Davids Mandar’s writing appeared in Sustenance (Anvil Press, 2017), Rhapsody (Vocamus Press, 2018) and Prairie Fire (Winter, 2018). Kim co-hosted Bookish Radio and is currently completing her MSc thesis. She is the editor of In|Appropriate, highlighting interviews with Canadian and Indigenous authors (Gordon Hill Press, 2020). Throughout a meandering career which includes teaching, writing, performing, and community development work, therapeutic interventions for optimal mental health have been a welcome element for success.
