A small group, in person workshop with author David Huebert:

Setting, Atmosphere, Environment

Insofar as all stories craft and cultivate environments, all fiction is environmental. This workshop will consider what it might mean to craft conscientious environments while considering the organic potential and components of language. How does language tie us to land? How is scene-making an ecological gesture? Can setting be a “character” or is that a bunch of bologna? These sound like big questions, and they are, but this workshop will use them as grounding for writing exercises, leaving participants with hands-on tools for crafting sentences, settings, and atmospheres.

This workshop is FREE but SPACE IS LIMITED.

Participation is by submission only. This workshop is aimed at emerging and mid-career writers.

To register: submit a one-page maximum writing sample to director@riddlefence.com

Deadline: Tuesday, October 15.

David Huebert’s writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, appeared several times in Best Canadian Stories, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. Huebert’s first story collection, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, among other accolades. His second story collection, Chemical Valley, won the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the ReLit Award. David teaches fiction writing at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), where he lives with his partner and two children. Oil People is his debut novel.