The craft of poems and prose

Our featured poet and fiction writer have announced the subjects for their BWC 2009 craft lectures.

Elise Levine will speak about "Narrative Thrust, Lyric Suspense."

Levine is author of the novel Requests and Dedications and the short story collection Driving Men Mad. Writes Levine: "In this lecture we’ll first consider the fundamentals of story

structure and pacing in fiction writing. And then you’ll learn how —
by deploying a variety of techniques including a heightened use of
language to temporarily suspend the forward movement of your story —
you can enhance the dynamic tension in your fiction."

Poet Jane Satterfield will talk about "Epistles and Other Conversations: The Poem as Letter". Her poetry volumes include Assignations at Vanishing Point and Shepardess with an Automatic.

"Cutting-edge" sensation to lead fiction session

BWC 2009 will feature a craft lecture in fiction writing from novelist and short story writer Elise Levine. Originally from Toronto, Levine was named by Margaret Atwood as one of Canada’s most important emerging women writers. Reviewers have called her “a cutting-edge literary sensation” and “a sensitive, cagey dominatrix of literary form and human psychology." Her books include the story collection Driving Men Mad and the novel Requests and Dedications.