Writing workshop: The Truth Doesn’t Have to Hurt with Emelia Symington-Fedy
November 25 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Writing workshop
Location TBA, Mon, Nov 25 at 5:30pm
Registration by donation (in advance). Please register at KIAC.
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Scared to tell the whole truth? Is it even your truth to tell? Emelia had to grapple with these questions in her memoir ’Skid Dogs’ as the people she’s speaking about are alive and she bumps into them at the grocery store.
In the writing, Emelia surprised herself. Sometimes telling the truth isn’t the smartest or bravest choice. There’s a more evocative option.
Q&A session and writing workshop about brutal honesty, responsibility and conscience when telling your story. We will discuss each attendees personal concerns. We will practice together. Bring writing implements.
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Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up in Armstrong, BC. She has worked as an essayist, storyteller and documentary producer for CBC Radio and is the co-artistic director of The Chop Theatre. She is the creator of the popular blog and radio show that became an audiobook, Trying to Be Good: The Healing Powers of Lying, Cheating, Stealing, and Drugs (Author’s Republic, 2017). After living an urban life for many years, Symington-Fedy and her family are now enjoying life back in Armstrong, on their rural property near a lake.
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Thanks to the BC & Yukon Book Prizes, Yukon Words, and Canada Council for the Arts
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