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  • Autofiction: Crafting a Novel or Short Story from Life

    • 12 Oct 2024
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison des associations, Rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Genève
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    The GWG Presents:

    Kristina Marie Darling

    Autofiction: Crafting a Novel or Short Story from Life

    This fiction workshop will explore the sub-genre of autofiction, or, fiction with an autobiographical element.  Questions we will consider include:  When should writers take artistic liberties with the stories they have lived?  How can writers use metaphor, stylistic innovation, and experimentation with narrative structures to convey powerful emotional truths?  The workshop will combine in-class readings and discussion with generative writing prompts.  

    Where: Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva. 

    Time: 10:30-16:30

    10:30 - 13:00 Workshop | 14:00 - 16:30 Critiquing session


    Bio Note:  Kristina Marie Darling is a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar. Her work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry, a 2024 Villa Lena Foundation Fellowship, a 2024 Civita Institute Fellowship, and  eleven juried residencies at the American Academy in Rome.  

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  • Flash fiction and wine - 3 wines, 3 stories, 3 prompts

    • 09 Nov 2024
    • 16:00 - 17:30
    • Flanagan's, Rue Marcelle de Kenzac 4, 1204 Genève
    • 14
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    The GWG Presents:

    Slawka G. Scarso

    Flash fiction and wine - 3 wines, 3 stories, 3 prompts


    Where: Flanagan's, Rue Marcelle de Kenzac 4, 1204 Genève

    Date and time: November 9th, 2024, 16h-17h30


    Pairing wine and food is something many people already pay attention to. But have you ever tried pairing flash fiction with wine? During this workshop, thanks to Slawka who is both a flash fiction writer and a wine professional, having worked in the wine industry for 20 years, we will match fiction with wine. We will start with a tasting of the wine, learn about the secrets of wine tasting, and then read a story that goes well with that wine. Inspired by the story (and the wine!) we will then write based on a prompt.

    So 3 wines, 3 stories, 3 prompts. And, of course, there will be time to share thoughts and first drafts as well.


    Bio:

    Slawka G. Scarso has published flash and micros in Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, Ellipsis Zine, FlashBack Fiction, Best Microfiction Anthology, Mslexia and others, and received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions Award. She was shortlisted for the 2023 Bridport Flash Award, the 2023 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize and the 2024 Bath Short Story Award. Her debut novella in flash “All Their Favourite Stories” is available from Ad Hoc Fiction. She has worked as a wine and food journalist and copywriter for 20 years, publishing several books on wine and travel in Italy. She has lived in Geneva and Milan and is currently based in Rome. More words on www.nanopausa.com


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  • Snippets - NOVEMBER

    • 12 Nov 2024
    • 10:00 - 11:30
    • Pages & Sips, Grand-Rue 37, 1204 Genève
    • 6
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    Snippets

    Monthly in-person writing sessions



    Get your writing juices flowing! 

    Creative, themed writing sessions to inspire you for your current project or for a new one, while connecting with local creative writers. We will produce 3-4 snippets of writing from prompts to put our creative minds to work. We will share our creations, either by describing them or reading them out. 

     

    When? The second Tuesday of each month; 10-11.30

    Where? Pages and Sips in the old town, Grand-Rue 37, 1204 Genève

    FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY!

    Cost: 10 chf, and support our host Pages & Sips by purchasing something (coffee, tea, croissant...)

    Who is the leader? 

    Carol Waites has been a professional writing trainer and coach for 25 years, more recently immersing herself in creative writing. She loves sharing ideas and seeing others’ creative talents unfold. She also loves networking with other like-minded people from different backgrounds. She is now writing her memoir of her time at the United Nations.




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  • Snippets - DECEMBER

    • 10 Dec 2024
    • 10:00 - 11:30
    • Pages & Sips, Grand-Rue 37, 1204 Genève
    • 6
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    Snippets

    Monthly in-person writing sessions



    Get your writing juices flowing! 

    Creative, themed writing sessions to inspire you for your current project or for a new one, while connecting with local creative writers. We will produce 3-4 snippets of writing from prompts to put our creative minds to work. We will share our creations, either by describing them or reading them out. 

     

    When? The second Tuesday of each month; 10-11.30

    Where? Pages and Sips in the old town, Grand-Rue 37, 1204 Genève

    FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY!

    Cost: 10 chf, and support our host Pages & Sips by purchasing something (coffee, tea, croissant...)

    Who is the leader? 

    Carol Waites has been a professional writing trainer and coach for 25 years, more recently immersing herself in creative writing. She loves sharing ideas and seeing others’ creative talents unfold. She also loves networking with other like-minded people from different backgrounds. She is now writing her memoir of her time at the United Nations.




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  • Open-Mic Night and Holiday Apéro!

    • 12 Dec 2024
    • 18:30 - 21:30
    • Upstairs at The Library in English, 3 rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva
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    THE GWG PRESENTS:

    OPEN-MIC NIGHT

    WITH HOLIDAY APERO

    WHEN: Thursday 12 December 2024

    TIME: 18H30 - 21:30H

    WHERE: The Library in English Upstairs, 3 rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva


    Everyone is invited to read (5 minutes max), but you will need to register for the event and then email us to sign up as a reader. We will take names by email on a first come first served basis and may have to limit the number, so please let us know as soon as possible by email after registering!

    You are also welcome to come as a listener.

    Drinks and light snacks will be served during the evening.

    IMPORTANT If you would like to read, please email us after registering at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com


    The evening is free to attend, but please register so that we know how many people are coming. Thanks.


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  • “So this is how we love”: Poems about people

    • 18 Jan 2025
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison des Associations rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneve.
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    The GWG Presents:

    Jonathan Edwards

    “So this is how we love”: Poems about people


    For poets of all abilities, writing about someone important – a family member, friend, love interest – can be a royal road to generating a poem of real emotional impact. During this workshop, we’ll look at a range of highly effective structures for framing our feelings about people. From work to hobbies to anecdotes to important places, there are so many ways into writing about people, and the workshop will brim with as many ideas as it can fit. By the end, you should have something which says something important about someone important, which does the magic poems can, of making someone feel.

    Where: Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva. 

    Time: 10:30-16:30

    10:30 - 13:00 Workshop | 14:00 - 16:30 Critiquing session



    Jonathan Edwards’s first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection, Gen (Seren, 2018), also received the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award, and in 2019 his poem about Newport Bridge was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. He received the Troubadour Poetry Prize in 2022. He has been a judge for the National Poetry Competition and the Wales Book of the Year and a Literature Wales mentor of emerging writers, and has led courses and workshops for the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry School and the Poetry Society. He lives in Crosskeys, South Wales.


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