MASTERCLASS Personal Folktales: Weaving Elements of Folklore
into Life Narratives
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 10:00am - 11:30am @
Huron County Library - Alice Munro Branch - 281 Edward Street, Wingham​
"A motif is the smallest element in a tale having a power to persist in tradition. In order to have this power it must have something unusual and striking about it." Stith Thompson, Motif Index of Folk Literature.
In this creative nonfiction workshop participants will write a short piece from memory through a guided prompt. Drawing from the Motif Index of Folk Literature, they will then weave select granular elements of folktales into their personal narrative—in whatever form this might take.
AUTHOR READING: Ordinary Wonder Tales
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 12:35pm - 1:35pm @
Maitland River Community Church, 414 Josephine St, Wingham,​
Emily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorate in folklore. Her award-winning work has appeared in Longreads, Guernica, and The Walrus, and elsewhere, and her first book was shortlisted for the Kobo First Book Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. Her most recent book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, my Father and Me, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC, NOW Magazine and Quill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Bio:
Emily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorate in folklore. Her award-winning work has appeared in Longreads, Guernica, and The Walrus, and elsewhere, and her first book was shortlisted for the Kobo First Book Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. Her most recent book, The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, my Father and Me, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC, NOW Magazine and Quill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and lives in Kitchener, Ontario.