Upcoming Events

    • 07 Sep 2023
    • 10:00
    • 06 Jun 2024
    • 11:30
    • Pages & Sips, 37 Grand-Rue, 1204 Genève

    Scribbles with GWG

    The GWG is proud to partner up with Sarah Tinsley for a special feature for members in  the 2023-24 season: in-person meetups in the first week of every month. Scribbles is an informal, themed writing workshop where you have the opportunity to write and connect with other writers. Sarah's writing prompts and exercises are just the ticket to inspire and motivate. GWG members get a special discount. Two time slots are available to suit all work schedules. The first session is on September 7th and the series runs every month through to June 2024.

    Dates and Times:

    First Thursday of the month from 5:30 - 7pm

    First Friday of the month from 10:00 - 11:30 am

    Where: Pages & Sips, 37 Grand-Rue, 1204 Genève

    Members must register through Sarah's website.

    Please use the link below to go directly to her easy-to-use booking form.

    Scribbles with GWG

    • 05 Dec 2023
    • 19:00 - 21:00
    • Upstairs at The Library in English, 3 rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva
    Register

    THE GWG PRESENTS:

    OPEN-MIC NIGHT

    WITH XMAS APERO

    WHEN: Tuesday 5 December 2023

    TIME: 19H - 21H

    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 and it will be strictly on a first come, first served basis.

    You are also welcome to come as a listener.

    Drinks and light snacks will be served during the evening.

    For any queries, contact us at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com


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


    • 20 Jan 2024
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva
    Register

    The GWG Presents:

    MARK PAJAK

    "WRITING WITH A RAZOR"

    SATURDAY 20 JANUARY 2024

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

    Time:   10:30-16:30


    MORNING SESSION:

    WORKSHOP

    This workshop will explore ways we can interrogate and craft more vivid and precise imagery. Studying the inner workings of poetry and prose from some of the best contemporary writers working today, you will collect and construct your own central and subordinate images in surprising, challenging, and effective ways. 

    From the blinding to the subtle – the sonorous, kinaesthetic, acrid, textured – you will be encouraged to look past what is immediate, to the secondary and tertiary mechanisms of your images, and learn how the precision of just one well-chosen word can evoke multiple senses and meanings. 


    AFTERNOON SESSION:

    Critiquing

    Full details TBA


    Bio

    Mark Pajak was born in Merseyside in 1987. His work has received a Northern Writers' Award, a Society of Authors' Grant, an Eric Gregory Award and an UNESCO international writing residency. His first collection, Slide, was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize and won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize.

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/240189/mark-pajak?tab=penguin-biography


    Literary Agent: Peter Straus

    Email: peters@rcwlitagency.com 

    ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE LTD

    20 Powis Mews, London, W11 1JN


    For all queries please contact us at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com

    • 13 Feb 2024
    • 19:00 - 20:30
    • Online (via Zoom)
    Register

    GWG ONLINE WORKSHOP

    LUCY CALDWELL

    TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2024

    1900 CET (VIA ZOOM)


    Choosing Tense and POV in short stories ...

     

    ... the alchemy, the collision, the incendiary possibilities!

    The choices you make about the point of view from which your story is told and the tense in which it’s told are among the first and most basic that any writer must consider, and must consider anew with each piece. Often we do it instinctively, or by default. And yet different combinations of tense/pov can have radically different effects and outcomes. In this one-off workshop we will look at the more unusual options available for writers of short stories – things that the short story can do brilliantly, and that might not be sustainable with longer-form prose. We will look – for example – at second-person and choral narration, we will think about the possibilities of future tense, the conditional tense, the imperative tense. We will play about with the tone and feel of different combinations of narrative modes, and you’ll go away with lots of fun things to try.

     

    Bio

    Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction; two collections of short stories, with a third, Openings, forthcoming in May 2024; several stage plays and radio dramas, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award for "All the People Were Mean and Bad" and in 2022 she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

    She runs a masterclass series in the short story for the Faber Academy. Her website is www.lucycaldwell.com and she tweets @beingvarious


    For all queries please contact us at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com


    • 25 Feb 2024
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva
    Register

    The GWG Presents:

    ELI KERIN (UNITED AGENTS)

    NON-FICTION PUBLISHING

    SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2024

    Where: Maison Internationale des Associations,

                   rue des Savoises 15,

                  1205 Geneva

    Time:   10:30-16:30


    MORNING SESSION:

    WORKSHOP

    Full details TBA

    AFTERNOON SESSION:

    Critiquing

    Full details TBA


    Bio

    TBA

    For all queries please contact us at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com

    • 23 Mar 2024
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva
    Register

    The GWG Presents:

    JUDE HIGGINS

    FLASH FICTION WORKSHOP

    SATURDAY 23 MARCHC 2024

    Where: Maison Internationale des Associations,

                   rue des Savoises 15,

                  1205 Geneva

    Time:   10:30-16:30


    MORNING SESSION:

    WORKSHOP

    Full details TBA

    AFTERNOON SESSION:

    Critiquing

    Full details TBA


    Bio

    TBA

    For all queries please contact us at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com

    • 26 Mar 2024
    • 19:00 - 21:30
    • Upstairs at The Library in English, 3 rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva
    Register

    The GWG Presents:

    APERO SPRING FLING

    together with GOMPR

    TUESDAY 26 MARCH 2024

    starting at 19h

    PLACE: Flanagan's Pub

                   Rue du Cheval-Blanc 4

                   1204 Geneva






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


    • 21 Apr 2024
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva
    Register

    The GWG Presents:

    AN EDITING WORKSHOP

    SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2024

    Where: Maison Internationale des Associations,

                   rue des Savoises 15,

                  1205 Geneva

    Time:   10:30-16:30


    MORNING SESSION:

    WORKSHOP

    Full details TBA

    AFTERNOON SESSION:

    Critiquing

    Full details TBA


    Bio

    TBA

    For all queries please contact us at:

    genevawriters@gmail.com

    • 14 May 2024
    • 19:00 - 20:30
    • Online (via Zoom)
    Register

    GWG ONLINE WORKSHOP

    ANGELA MISRI

    JOURNALISM 101

    TUESDAY 14 MAY 2024

    1900 CET (VIA ZOOM)


    Unveiling Truths: Navigating the Art of Journalism

    While journalism evolves - from the Old Gray Lady herself - the New York Times - to gonzo journalism to citizen journalism – there are some core skills and tenants that remain constant. Learn more about the key elements of journalistic storytelling - the inverted pyramid structure, sourcing, interviewing, fact-checking, and pitching – and use them to take your non-fiction writing to the next level. 


    Angela Misri is an award-winning journalist and educator with 23 years of experience in newsrooms. She is also the author of seven fiction novels and an assistant professor of journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.



    • 25 May 2024
    • 19:00 - 20:30
    • Online (via Zoom)
    Register

    GWG ONLINE WORKSHOP

    KEN LIU

    YA AND FANTASY FICTION

    SATURDAY 25 MAY 2024

    1900 CET (VIA ZOOM)


    TIME TO BE CONFIRMED

     

    Workshop

    TBA






    Bio

    TBA


    • 22 Jun 2024
    • 09:30 - 16:00
    • Webster University, 15 rue de Collex, 1293 Bellevue
    Register


    The GWG Presents:

    A Fiction Publishing Workshop

    with Caitlin Jans

    Followed by:

    Annual General Meeting

    Saturday 22 June, 09:30-16:00

    Free for everyone!

    LLC Commons Room

    Webster University

    Bellevue


    MORNING WORKSHOP

    TBA

    2024 GWG AGM Agenda

    TBA

    The AGM itself usually takes around an hour, so please stay around afterwards to enjoy an apéro with your fellow GWG members.


    HOW TO GET THERE

    By train

    The Léman Express runs every 15 minutes from Platform 1 at Genève Cornavin. Go 4 stops to Genthod Bellevue, and it's then a 5-minute walk.


    By car

    The University have installed a barrier to their carpark, admission by typing the code '1982' on the keypad.

    This event is free for everyone but we need to know numbers in advance! Please register online via the website, or by email at: 

    genevawriters@gmail.com 


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