The Student Literary Programme offers creative writing workshops with distinguished authors at the Blue Metropolis Festival.
- Participants: Secondary school students
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Languages: English and French
- Length of activity: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Admission fee: $15 per student
Partners: MELS, Guy Tiphane Foundation
Secondary school students will meet professional writers and work on their own creative writing with them
Part I: Introduction and discussion
The author shares his experience as a writer and reader. He or she reads excerpts from his or her work. Students ask questions about being a writer and the process of writing.
Part II: Writing workshop
The author explores a literary genre, a writing activity or a specific theme with the students. Students will then share their texts with classmates and the author. The author guides students individually or in groups.
During the 13th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival from April 27 to May 1, 2011.
Schedule and programming to come...
Where
At the Holiday Inn Select Hotel, at 99 avenue Viger West, Place-d'Armes metro.
Cost
$15 per student for each half-day session. Students can register for a minimum of one session (half-day) and a maximum of 5 sessions (two and a half-days).
Free for teachers accompanying their students.
Suggestion
Teachers should register small groups of students (8 to 15) in order for the activity to be enriching. Teachers who register bigger groups must accept that students will be divided into two groups.
Since its launch in 2000, almost 120 writers and more than 5,000 students have participated in the Blue Metropolis Student Literary Program. We appreciate the support of the Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (DGFJ), Réseau des bibliothèques publiques de Montréal, ATEQ and AQPF.
"This workshop opened my eyes to what I'm able to do and it encouraged me to write."
"The workshop was great! I am so excited to have come here! I had no idea such a festival existed! In the future I would like to attend more workshops."
"This workshop was riveting and opened my eyes to a type of poetry that I had never experienced before."
| 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |
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Jason Donald |
Jon Paul Fiorentino |
Rupert Bottenberg J.R Carpenter Jon Paul Fiorentino Elene Kalman Naves Kaie Kellough Catherine Kidd Alice Kuipers Adam Leith Gollner Monique Polak Clair Rothman Carolyn Marie Souaid Janet Torge |
Louise Abbott Melissa Auf der Maur Rupert Bottenberg Rothman Naila Keleta Mae Kaie Kellough Catherine Kidd Monique Polak Carolyn Marie Souaid |
Adam Leith Gollner Claire Holden Rothman Naila Keleta Mae Cahterine Kidd Carolyn Marie Souaid |
For francophone authors, please visit the Programme littéraire étudiant section.
Florence Allegrini
Educational Programmes Coordinator
514-932-1112 ext. 30
florence.allegrini@bluemetropolis.org