MASTERCLASS Writing Across Genres
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 10:00am - 11:30 am @
Maitland River Community Church, 414 Josephine St, Wingham,​
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Interested in writing a romance with a gothic horror backdrop? Or maybe a mystery set in a futuristic colony on Mars? Many authors today are building worlds and telling stories that play with different genre elements and refuse to be easily categorized. Join Anuja Varghese for a generative masterclass in blending genres and using familiar tropes in unexpected ways.
AUTHOR READING: Chrysalis
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 4:00pm - 4:50pm @
Maitland River Community Church, 414 Josephine St, Wingham,​
Anuja Varghese (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated QWOC writer based in Hamilton, ON. Her work appears in The Malahat Review, Hobart, The Fiddlehead, and Plenitude Magazine, as well as the Queer Little Nightmares anthology (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022), among others. Anuja serves as Fiction Editor for The Ex-Puritan Magazine, as well as a board member for gritLIT, Hamilton’s literary festival, and host of LIT LIVE, Hamilton’s monthly reading series. Anuja holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and is currently pursuing a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Toronto, while working on a debut novel. Her short story collection, CHRYSALIS (House of Anansi Press, 2023), explores South Asian diaspora experience through a feminist, speculative lens.
Bio:
Anuja Varghese (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated QWOC writer based in Hamilton, ON. Her work appears in The Malahat Review, Hobart, The Fiddlehead, and Plenitude Magazine, as well as the Queer Little Nightmares anthology (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022), among others. Anuja serves as Fiction Editor for The Ex-Puritan Magazine, as well as a board member for gritLIT, Hamilton’s literary festival, and host of LIT LIVE, Hamilton’s monthly reading series. Anuja holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and is currently pursuing a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Toronto, while working on a debut novel. Her short story collection, CHRYSALIS (House of Anansi Press, 2023), explores South Asian diaspora experience through a feminist, speculative lens.