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Resistance, Love and Crisis: How do we write about the world we live in?

With Michelle Porter

Saturday, November 7, 2026
9:30 am
to 11:30 am
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia
$30.00

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In this workshop, we’ll explore questions of love, resistance and the state of the world today. We’ll experiment with the variety of ways prose and poetry can be used to begin to ask and answer the questions that are most urgent to us today. In this workshop we explore how to let the world we live in show up in our writing in vital and exciting ways.

Speakers

  • MICHELLE PORTER's debut novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story, won the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her previous books include the memoir Scratching River and Approaching Fire, a work of creative nonfiction about her great-grandfather, a fiddler from the Red River, which was shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award. Michelle is the descendent of a long line of Métis storytellers and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Michelle lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, where she teaches creative writing and Métis Literature at Memorial University.