Facilitated by
Rod Carley & Terry Fallis
Registration: $50.00
SATURDAY - April 20, from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library
As the first in our 2024 series of Art of Writing Workshops, ARW presents Make 'Em Laugh, a workshop on humour and how to write it, led by award winning authors Rod Carley and Terry Fallis. Presented in partnership with Mill Street Books.
In this 2.5-hour workshop, Rod Carley and Terry Fallis will share short excerpts from their works and lead a discussion on humour writing covering a range of topics, including why humour writing is hard, how to transfer humour to the page, humour writing techniques, accepting that not every reader will "get you," and who to read if you want to learn and laugh. Speaking of laughs, you'll have a few along the way.
ALSO Don’t miss An Afternoon with Terry Fallis in conversation with Rod Carley, on April 21, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Public Library. Presented by Mill Street Books in partnership with the Mississippi Mills Public Library and Almonte Readers & Writers.
About the Instructors:
Rod Carley is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction: RUFF (coming September 2024), GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour and 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction fromthe Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). His short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary magazines. Rod is a popular author and moderator with literary festivals and book clubs. Recent credits include the 1000 Islands Writers Festival, Jabbawong Storytelling Festival, Burlington Literary Festival, The Literary Press Group of Canada, and Wordstock Sudbury. For more on Rod, visit: www.rodcarley.ca
A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of nine national bestsellers, among them six #1 bestsellers, including his latest, A New Season. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, also won the 2011 edition of CBC Canada Reads, was adapted as a six-part television miniseries, and a stage musical. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.
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For more on Terry, visit: www.terryfallis.com
This workshop is presented in partnership with Mill Street Books and the Mississippi Mills Public Library, and partially funded by the Municipality of Mississippi Mills.
