As part of Say Anything/Something, a community-based performance and workshop series, Inspired Word Café is thrilled to present a prose workshop lead by scholar and writer Britt MacKenzie-Dale!
This workshop invites writers at all stages and experience levels to engage in a learning and sharing environment.
No registration necessary—spots are first come, first served. This event is free to attend.
About the workshop: This beginner-friendly prose workshop invites writers of all experience levels to think differently about how nonhumans show up in our stories. Workshop participants are invited to consider: How do animals and the environment traditionally appear in Western stories? How might we incorporate more nuanced nonhuman characters into our creative practice? Attendees will work through short exercises before trying their hand at a narrative scene or short story (either fiction or creative nonfiction) and share their work with the group for feedback.
About Britt: Britt MacKenzie-Dale (she/her) holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and subTerrain. Her scholarly work has been published with The Adroit Journal and Palgrave Macmillan, among others. She was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize, was the recipient of the 2023 David H. Walker Prize for fiction, and won the 2018 Okanagan Short Story Contest. Currently, she is co-editor of The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture.
The Alternator Centre is located in the Rotary Centre for the Arts and is wheelchair accessible. Bathrooms are gendered stalled washrooms, with a single, gender neutral and wheelchair accessible washroom available.
Our programming is made possible by the City of Kelowna, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, and the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work in the unceded, ancestral territory of the Syilx people. It is a privilege to be able to put on events as uninvited guests on their land.