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First Page Fiction Writing Workshop With Neil Aitken

Join Neil Aitken at this First Page Fiction Workshop. This writing workshop is a feedback-oriented program that focuses on discussing the first pages of stories and novels.

Part of RPL's Writes of Spring programming series.

This program is conducted through Zoom. Register to receive a reminder, the evaluation, and any other resources.

Click the links to join:

April 20: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87418364416 
April 27: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89232937642 

Dates: The program runs on two Thursdays, April 20 and 27, from 7:00 PM-8:30 PM. We encourage you to join us in both sessions.

First Page Fiction Workshop is a feedback-oriented workshop that focuses on discussing the first pages of stories and novels that the participants share with the group. Participants can send the first page by email to the presenter in advance, or they can send it on the day of the workshop. Workshops begin by first discussing the first pages of published stories and novels and why they work or don't work. In the end, what we can learn from them.

Presenter Information: Neil Aitken is a Chinese-Scottish Canadian writer, editor, and translator with a multi-genre MFA in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing. He is the author of two poetry collections, Babbage’s Dream, a semi-finalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize, and The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, as well as a poetry chapbook, Leviathan, which won the 2017 Elgin Prize for Science Fiction Poetry. He recently served as the RPL Writer-in-Residence and previously served as the Virtual Writer-in-Residence for the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild. His work appears in anthologies, magazines, and broadsides, and has been featured in animated films, arranged for contemporary art songs, and translated into Dutch, Russian, and Chinese. Visit his website here. 

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