Join author Christine Estima for a two-pronged writing workshop!
They say that unless you grab the reader within the first page, readers won't be excited to turn the page or read the entire novel. Participants will try to write the most engaging first sentence, first paragraph, or first page that really grabs a reader and makes them want to turn the page.
Then, participants will engage in an exercise on what's left unsaid in dialogue. Some of the most compelling scenes involving dialogue centre around what the characters are NOT saying, versus what they are actually saying. It's in the negative space, the silence, what's left unsaid, that we find the tension.
Participants are invited to bring a work-in-progress to workshop throughout this event.
CHRISTINE ESTIMA
 is an Arab woman of mixed ethnicity (Lebanese, Syrian, and Portuguese) and the author of the short story collection 
The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society
, which the CBC called one of the Best Fiction Books of 2023. She has written for 
The New York Times
, 
The Walrus
, 
VICE
, 
The Globe and Mail
, 
Chatelaine
, 
Maisonneuve
, the 
Toronto Star
, and the CBC. Her story “Your Hands Are Blessed” was included in 
Best Canadian Stories 2023
. She was a finalist for the 2023 Lee Smith Novel Prize and was shortlisted for the 2018 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism. Christine has a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from York University and lives in Toronto.
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