Gatherings | Issue 17
Recommended readings, viewings, calls, events, and more from Send My Love to Anyone



Exciting News from knife | fork | book


Victoria Mbabazi’s Flip from knife | fork | book:


Exciting news from The Puritan


Lisa Robertson’s Boat at Coach House Books
If you missed Lisa Roberton’s Toronto book launch, you can watch it here:


A wonderful poem by Akshi Chadha.


Craft seminar:
Register for this craft seminar with Alexander Chee: A Couple of People I Used to Be: Approaches to the Self Through the Personal Essay
Enrique Vila-Matas quote:

Nicole Chung on writing with pain:


Punch It Up with Daniela Saioni
A unique program designed to train your comedy brain to help you make film and TV scripts funnier
Have you finished a film or TV comedy script and want to take it to the next level? Are you a Script Consultant or Story Editor looking to add more tools to your toolkit for your comedy writing clients? Or do you simply want to learn the ways of comedy writers in the script punch-up process? If so, this online course is for you.
This multi-faceted program kicks off with a training week with six hours of lectures where screenwriter and punch-up artist Daniela Saioni pulls back the magic curtain to unveil how to think like a comedian when punching up scripts. She will lead you through her insights on sharpening dialogue, help you make stronger and more original choices, amplify subtext through humour, disguise exposition, identify any potential “game” in the scene, apply jokewriting techniques and give you tools to help you find or improve your jokes, strengthen your theme and distinguish your character voices.
That will be followed up with five weeks of twice-weekly live group afternoon Joke Gyms (Tuesdays) and Punch-up Gyms (Thursdays) via Zoom, where we will apply different jokewriting techniques each week to brainstorm jokes and punch up scenes that course participants bring in.
Robin Thede, Natasha Lyonne and THR’s Comedy Showrunner Roundtable
Roxane Gay on Hollywood reboots
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Laurie Anderson: Spending the War Without You:
A six part series
Issue #17 of Send My Love to Anyone
“On Writing Rooms” by Sina Queyras
“My ADHD Diagnosis” by Kathryn Mockler
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