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Writing Comic Poetry: Seriously?!

Quebec Writers' Federation

Can a poem be funny? Can we balance the light and the dark, find hilarity in a haiku? What is the value of play in creation? In this workshop, participants will be encouraged to explore the place of humor in their work, through guided readings, discussions, and exercises.

Website: https://qwf.org/product/writing-comic-poetry-seriously/

Categories: Comedy and Poetry

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March, 2024

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

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• Learn how to handle creative writing challenges
• Understand the concepts of literary fiction and storymaking

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Creative Writing Training Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Creative Writing

What is Creative Writing?

• Main Elements of Creative Writing
• Types of Creative Writing
• Techniques Used in Creative Writing

Module 2: Challenges for Translation

• Challenges to Writers
• Challenges for Translation
• Experiment Challenges
• Design and Quality Challenges

Module 3: Composition and Creative Writing

• Introduction to Composition Writing
• Types of Composition Writing

Module 4: Seven Processes of Creative Writing

• Planning or Prewriting
• Drafting (or Writing the First Draft)
• Sharing Your First Draft
• Evaluating Your Draft
• Revising Your Content
• Publishing Your Final Product

Module 5: Writing Fiction

• Literary Fiction
• Form and Structure
• Finding Characters
• Basics of Story Making

Module 6: Creative Nonfiction

• Meaning of Creative Nonfiction
• Characteristics of Creative Nonfiction
• Tips for Creative Nonfiction Writing
• Common Literary Nonfiction Subgenres

Module 7: Basics of Writing Poetry

• Listening to Language
• Finding Language
• Awakening and Shaping Language
• Playing with Language

Module 8: Performing Writing

• Introduction to Performing Writing

Module 9: Writing in the Academy and Community

• Introduction

Module 10: Tips to Improve Creative Writing

• Do Not Underestimate the Reader
• Give Your Characters Life
• Utilise Strong Words
• Check Your Commas
• Grab Attention from the Start
• Give the Reader a Satisfactory Ending

Who should attend this Creative Writing Training Course?

The Creative Writing Training Course is designed for individuals eager to refine their creative writing skills. This course is ideal for aspiring writers, professionals in content creation, and anyone seeking to enhance their storytelling abilities. The following individuals can greatly benefit from attending this course:

• Journalists
• Content Creators
• Copywriters
• Teachers and Educators
• Public Relations Professionals
• Content Marketers

Prerequisites of the Creative Writing Training Course

There are no formal prerequisites for this Creative Writing Course.

Creative Writing Training Course Overview

Creative Writing is an art form that enables expression, storytelling, and communication in unique and imaginative ways. Among the Personal Development Courses, this course offers an introduction to the diverse world of creative writing, highlighting its importance in personal expression and professional communication. Understanding and developing creative writing skills can enhance one’s ability to engage and captivate audiences.

Professionals in fields such as marketing, advertising, journalism, and education will find this course particularly beneficial. It’s also ideal for aspiring writers and those in any role requiring narrative skills. Creative writing enhances one’s ability to convey messages compellingly and creatively, making it a valuable skill in many professions.

The Knowledge Academy’s 1-day Creative Writing Training Course is designed to unlock creativity and improve writing skills. The training covers various aspects of creative writing, from character development to plot structuring, providing delegates with the tools to express themselves more effectively through writing.

Course Objectives:

• To explore the fundamentals of Creative Writing
• To develop skills in character creation and development
• To learn the art of crafting engaging narratives and plots
• To enhance descriptive and expressive writing abilities
• To understand various genres and styles in creative writing
• To practice writing with feedback and guidance

Upon completion, delegates will have honed their creative writing skills, enabling them to craft more engaging and imaginative works. They will leave with a deeper understanding of storytelling techniques and the confidence to apply these skills in both personal and professional contexts.

What’s included in this Creative Writing Training Course?

• World-Class Training Sessions from Experienced Instructors
• Creative Writing Certificate
• Digital Delegate Pack

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List of available Creative Writing Courses in Montreal, Canada.

The Creative Writing courses in Montreal are provided by the following institutes:

• MacEwan University, Edmonton
• University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Toronto
• BCIT: British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver
• George Brown College, Toronto
• Bow Valley College, Calgary
• NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), Edmonton
• University of Alberta, Edmonton
• University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• RRC Polytech, Winnipeg
• Broadview Academy, Winnipeg

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Writing Skills For Creative Professioals

This course explores the many ways writing is an essential skill for visual artists and designers

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• Duration 18 Hours
• Location Edmonton
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If you're just getting started as a writer and haven't yet decided on a literary direction, this course gives you the opportunity to try a number of different genres.

• Duration 20 Hours
• Location Toronto

Critical Reading and Writing

This is a course in advanced composition and rhetoric, in which students will develop skills in complex critical analysis

• Price $734.36
• Duration 3 Hours
• Location Vancouver

Writing Workshop

Our Writing Workshop course is a workshop-style masterclass that helps you quickly and efficiently improve and perfect your short stories and novel chapters through live, in-person support.

• Duration 36 Hours

In this course, learners explore the elements of storytelling through instruction and discussion, practice various approaches with writing exercises, overcome writing hesitancy, and develop critiquing abilities.

• Location Calgary

Effective Writing

At the end of this course, you will be able to write with clarity and concision.

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Introduction to Writing Fiction

 The main objective of this course is to help students grow as writers, both in developing the craft and as critical thinkers about fiction and the writing process.

• Location Downtown, Edmonton

Writing with Confidence

Learn effective business writing skills that build trust, strengthen relationships, improve morale, and inspire confidence in others.

• Location Winnipeg

Unearth the creativity within you in this introductory course in creative writing.

Advanced Writing Skills for Your Career

In this training, your time will be devoted to writing letters of recommendation, of persuasion, of refusal or of action, that reflect current word usage and up-to-date formats.

• Duration 1 Day

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QWF Writing Workshops help participants develop writing with the support of an experienced professional writer-facilitator and feedback from peers.

QWF runs two regular seasons of writing workshops per year, in Spring (March to May) and Fall (October to December). Registration for the Spring workshops opens the preceding December, and for the Fall workshops in August. We offer workshops in a wide range of genres, including long- and short-form fiction, memoir, narrative non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, children’s and/or young adult literature, and career-related topics.

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Perspective in Literary Fiction

Storytellers operate in first-person, second-person, third-person limited, third-person omniscient, and more unusual points-of-view. This five-week workshop will offer a deep dive into the use of perspective in fiction. More info

Illuminated Grant-Writing

This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print, spoken word, or storytelling can develop a strong literary arts grant application. More info

Writing Comic Poetry: Seriously?!

Can a poem be funny? In this workshop, participants will be encouraged to explore the place of humour in their work, through guided readings, discussions, and exercises. More info

Memoir: How to Tell Your Story

Each of us has a story to tell. We all have memories. In this workshop we’ll focus on transforming the personal into something that reaches beyond. More info

Unlock Your Filmmaking Dreams: A Short Film Screenwriting Workshop

This workshop is not just about dreaming—it's about doing. It's about equipping you with the tools to transform your creative ideas into compelling short films. More info

Edit Your Own Prose: The Art of Rewriting

The workshop will focus on big-picture issues, including story line, character development, and genre expectations, and help you bring the story alive on the page through rhythm, effective dialogue, and language choices. More info

Speaking Truth to Power: How to Write Non-Didactic Political Poetry

This 8-week poetry workshop focuses on writing poetry that engages with social justice and politics without leaning too far into didacticism and prescriptiveness, without sounding too preachy or like a chant in a march. More info

Getting Weird: Crafting Surreal Short Stories

Getting Weird is an 8-week short fiction workshop that focuses on writing strangeness into the everyday, as a method for exploring and disrupting questions of race, gender, sexuality, climate change, capitalism, and other big topics. More info

Speculative Fiction Master Class: Readying Your Work for Publication

Speculative fiction is defined broadly to include anything from science fiction to fantasy to slipstream to magic realism. Participants are free to submit a short story, an excerpt from a larger work, a script, speculative poetry, a comic, or graphic novel excerpt. More info

Writing Biography: A One-Day Creative Nonfiction Workshop

This workshop aims to introduce participants to the art and science of writing the story of another person’s life. More info

Humour in Storytelling: A Comedy Writing Workshop

Through examples of comedic writing, discussions, and various writing exercises, workshop participants will learn tips and tools on how to employ humour in storytelling (with characters, dialogue, and storylines) and a broader sense of the landscape for comedic writing. More info

Exploring Childhood Through Stories: Writing Picture Books and Early Chapter Books

This is a workshop for writers interested in writing picture books and early chapter books, and also for illustrators who would like to hone their writing skills. More info

Inhabiting the Isolarion: A Psychogeography Poetry Workshop

Using the concept of the isolarion, and practices and techniques from psycho-geography, participants will create a short suite of poems exploring significant places, relationships, communities, cultures, and experiences in their lives, to explore and trace threads running from the past to present to future. More info

Unleashing the Power of Your Podcasting Voice

Join us for a dynamic and immersive one-day workshop designed for aspiring podcasters who wish to embark on a literary podcasting journey. More info

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Writing Residencies!

In this two-day workshop, we will explore how writers can benefit from different residency opportunities and how to put forward the strongest application possible.  More info

Headshot Clinic

Take advantage of the Professional Headshot Clinic at the CDAH, and walk away with training in photography and lighting as well as a new headshot. More info

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QWF gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Government of Canada.

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Program overview

Fast-track your skills in the company of other writers. Pursue your thesis with a professor whose expertise  complements your area of interest. Take literature seminars that broaden your understanding of others’ work and your own. The literary culture you encounter will enhance every aspect of your development as a writer.

You’ll have the freedom to explore your creative vision and find your voice as a writer and scholar in the artistically vibrant city of Montreal. Our program’s flexibility allows you to propose a thesis project in traditional or innovative genres and media, including digital.

By pursuing training as a writer in the context of a literature program, you’ll experience a learning environment informed by a multiplicity of insights. Your classmates will include people pursuing scholarly interests as well as those with their sights set on writing careers, publishing and editing, gaming, and teaching.

You’ll also have the opportunity to forge professional and artistic relationships that will last throughout your career.  Concordia is home to the Centre for Expanded Poetics, the Mordecai Richler Reading Room , numerous publications, and the Writers Read series , which attracts renowned and emerging writers alike.

Program Details

Admission requirements, english literature ma with thesis (option a), english literature ma with thesis (option b) (45 credits), creative writing with thesis (option c), degree requirements, degree requirements.

Fully-qualified candidates are required to complete a minimum of 45 credits.

Please see the English Courses page for course descriptions.

English MA (45 credits)

Program options.

Degree options

You may choose one of three options. English Literature MA with Thesis (Option A) English Literature MA with Thesis (Option B) Creative Writing with Thesis (Option C)

Application process

Your completed application will include:

• Application form and Fee
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Three Letters of Reference and assessment form
• Statement of Purpose (2 pages maximum) outlining your academic and creative writing background and areas of interest, potential thesis area, and objectives in pursuing graduate studies
• Creative Writing  portfolio
• For international students, a sample of your written work, such as a course paper (15 pages maximum).
• Transcripts  for all post-secondary institutions attended
• Proof of Canadian citizenship (if applicable)
• Applicants whose primary language is not English, are required to submit  official language test scores , unless exempted.

Please apply  online . Read the  how-to guide  for application procedures.

Application deadlines

Consult the graduate calendar for a complete list of courses  and  read about upcoming, current and past course offerings .

Portfolio information

How to submit your portfolio 

Upload a PDF version of your portfolio on or before the application deadline.

If you are experiencing issues with uploading your portfolio, please send it to the Graduate Program Assistant  [email protected] .

Your portfolio MUST include the portfolio cover page   and a copy of your statement of purpose.

The subject line should read:   Last name, first name - graduate portfolio submission

About the portfolio

It is not necessary to submit all three genres; though you may wish to reflect your strengths in various genres, the focus should be on that in which you propose to complete your thesis. If you write prose, submit 35 to ( a maximum of ) 45 pages (double-spaced); if poetry, 20 to ( a maximum of ) 25 pages (single-spaced). If you are applying in drama, you must submit one complete play. In the case of a combined-genre portfolio, the total should not exceed 35 pages (unless drama is included).  Submit your strongest work that which you feel accurately represents your abilities and interests. Where possible, complete works are preferable to excerpts.

Students not accepted into the Creative Writing program may enter the Literature Option if they have met admission requirements and have indicated that they are interested in the other option on the  portfolio cover page form.

We’re committed to providing students the support they need to focus on their studies. Top students benefit from scholarships and teaching assistantships, and all students are eligible for conference awards and other funding .

Please also consult the English Department’s funding page and Financial Aid and Awards .

Faculty research interests

Our faculty members are accomplished scholars across many fields of literature. Learn about the diverse research interests through our research initiatives  and recent publications .

Student initiatives

Graduate students hold writing sessions and workshops, host literary and scholarly events, and publish a journal. Learn more about Concordia Write Nights , Headlight , and visit SAGE to get involved.

Your professional future

An MA in English prepares you for careers that require strength in research, writing, and communication.

You’ll also be qualified to teach in Quebec’s CEGEP system.

Our graduates  are well-placed to take on advanced study in a PhD program, in either English or Creative Writing.  Others have become icons of the Canadian literary scene. Still others work in such fields as editing (literary, copy), publishing (as employees or as small press publishers themselves), writing for online and print magazines (e.g. Maisonneuve , The Walrus ), developing video games, teaching CEGEP, teaching ESL, translating, and technical writing.

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