Gatherings | Issue 3
Calls, Events, Recommended Readings and Viewings, Writing Tips
Hi Friends,
Here are the March Recommendations!
The March links will be updated throughout the month here.
Hope you enjoy!
Kathryn
I asked Twitter their first memory of writing creatively and got some great responses!
Join in on the conversation and share your memory!
Calls for Submissions
The 48 Film Fest - Write, shoot, and direct a film in 48 hours!
Events
Tuesday March 9, 2021 at 12:00PM (Pacific)/3:00PM (EST) - Marilyn Dumont
A Poetry Reading with Poet Marilyn Dumont, Honouring Indigenous Writers, University of Alberta
Marilyn Dumont is the author of four collections of poems: A Really Good Brown Girl (winner of the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award), green girl dreams Mountains (winner of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award), that tongued belonging (winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year and Aboriginal Book of the Year Award) and The Pemmican Eaters (published in 2015 by ECW Press). The original Brick Books edition of A Really Good Brown Girl was reprinted thirteen times, and selections from the book are widely anthologized in secondary and post-secondary texts. Marilyn has been Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library and in numerous universities across Canada. In addition, she has been faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts’ Writing with Style and Wired Writing programs, as well as an advisor and mentor in their Indigenous Writers’ Program. She serves as a board member on The Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, cross-appointed in the Faculty of Native Studies and the Department of English and Film Studies. Register.
Tuesday March 9, 2021 at 7:00PM (EST) - Launch of Gary Barwin's Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy
Thursday March 11, 2021 at 12:00pm (Pacific) or 3:00PM (EST) - UBC Reads Sustainability with Amitav Ghosh
Featuring The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of the writing of history, where the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications.
Join Ghosh for an examination of our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. Register
Thursday March 11, 2021 at 6:00PM (EST) - Dionne Brand
Sunday March 25, 2021 at 3:00PM (EST) - Draft Reading Series
It's the one-year anniversary since we had to move virtual but the readings have not diminished and we have another virtual edition of the Draft Reading Series.
Draft 16.3 will feature new work from writers of Cry Magazine and the Nia Centre:Carlos Anthony, Aisha Gallion, Johanny (Joa) Ortega, Curated by Kern Carter. Closed Captioning will be available. Please contact us at draftreadings@gmail.com if you have any questions.This is a Pay-What-You-Want event. We deeply appreciate donations of any amount, but free tickets are available and all are welcome. Donations will go to pay the authors at this and future readings. Register.
Saturday March 27, 2021 at 1:00PM (Pacific) - Stephen Collis
How to Pitch Netflix with Christopher Ward
Netflix and Stage 32 Webinar. This webinar is free, but you have to sign up for a free Stage 32 account, and they will send you a lot of email but you can unsubscribe. Excellent advice from an Netflix executive.
Christopher Mack is Director, Creative Talent Investment & Development for Netflix International Originals. He was previously Senior Vice President of Scripted Content for Stage 13, overseeing all of the brand’s original scripted series and development slates across multiple genres, including Emmy nominated Netflix series’ SPECIAL and IT'S BRUNO. Before Stage 13, Chris headed the Warner Bros. Workshop, the writing and directing program for professionals looking to start and/or further their careers in television.
Prior to joining Warner Bros., Chris spent seven years writing on various one-hour dramas including ER, THE PRACTICE and THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE.
Posdcast - Nonfiction Podcast
Check out Nonfiction Podcast by David Leach and Deborah Campbell!
Nonfiction is a conversation between University of Victoria writing professors David Leach and Deborah Campbell (plus guest authors and experts) about the art, craft and ethics of researching, writing and revising creative nonfiction, literary journalism and other forms of nonfiction prose. Fresh episodes (almost) every Monday morning.
I was honored to be a guest for Issue 11 where I talked about memory, genre, film, and the climate crisis. Also check out Issue 10 with author Danielle Geller who talks about her new memoir Dog Flowers and writing about family. Other episodes delve into factchecking, literary journalism, interviewing, firsts drafts and more.
Story Tip
Here is a simple but effective way to look at story and the cause and effect between each beat of the story which creates tension and conflict. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker describe how they use the key words “but” and “therefore.”
This happened.
Therefore this happened.
But this happened.
Therefore this happened.
But this happened.
What I’m Reading
Brain fog is a real thing. “Well-being columnist Jennifer Moss sheds some light on it” (CBC). This is a great article that explains what brain fog is and offers some tips on how to deal with it. I’ve had brain fog since the beginning of the pandemic, so I found this article helpful. One of the reasons I started this newsletter had to do with brain fog. I need external accountability and committing to others is something I can do. So Send My Love to Anyone was born.
“How Have You Overcome Writers Block? A misremembered quote, self forgiveness, and attending to the unmade decisions of a draft” by Alexander Chee. Excellent advice on questions to ask yourself about why you might not be moving forward.
What I’m Watching
“Kogonada is a South Korean-born American filmmaker known for his debut film Columbus as well as his video essays: short videos which analyze the content, form, and structure of films and television series generally through narration and editing” (from Wikipedia)
Plastic Bag, a short film by Ramin Bahrani (Narrated by Werner Hertzog)
Season of the Witch (1972) by George A. Romero is on Criterion this month. It’s described as Romero’s most unclassifiable film. It’s strange and funny and sad all at the same time.
From Criterion:
“Starring Jan White, Raymond Laine, Ann Muffly Perhaps the most unclassifiable work by George A. Romero, SEASON OF THE WITCH sees the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD director returning to the realm of the supernatural for the bewitching tale of a housewife driven to an interest in the dark arts. On the surface, Joan Mitchell (Jan White) has it all: family, friends, and a beautiful home equipped with the latest appliances. But when a neighbor educates her on the practice of witchcraft, Joan believes she’s discovered the perfect antidote to her monotonous suburban existence. What was originally marketed as a sexploitation film under the title HUNGRY WIVES is, in fact, an intimate and thought-provoking feminist character study and one of horror legend Romero’s most overlooked films.”
Watch Your Head
We’ve got some excellent new work up on Watch Your Head!
A Discussion with an Old Man Who Lives in the Forest by Maryam Gowralli
Like an Iceburg by David Huebert
We Shit Plastic by The Uncommitted
3 Poems by Ronna Boom
2 Poems by Cassandra Cervi
3 Poems by Samuel Tongue
If Saturday, an Empty Parking Lot by Bren Simmers
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