This video will be available until November 12, 2024. Please note captions are auto-generated. Originally recorded October 10, 2024.


Writing from Family Stories with Rhea Tregebov

Many of us use our personal history and experience to generate our writing. What techniques should we use to translate and refine this material so it captures readers? How do we make the personal public without doing damage to our relationships? This webinar will address these questions as they impact the separate genres of picture books, poetry and fiction.

A Q & A will follow the presentation


Presenter
Rhea Tregebov is the acclaimed author of eight collections of poetry. Her most recent, Talking to Strangers, was published by Véhicule Press in April 2024. She has published two award-winning novels, Rue des Rosiers (2019) and The Knife Sharpener’s Bell (2009). She is also the celebrated author of five children’s picture books. Tregebov served as Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada from 2021 to 2023. Born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, she now lives and writes in Vancouver, where she is Associate Professor Emerita at the School of Creative Writing at UBC.

Please visit www.rheatregebov.ca


Host
Leah Horlick is the author of three collections of poetry: Riot Lung, For Your Own Good, and Moldovan Hotel. She is a past winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Canada's only award for emerging LGBTQ2S+ writers, and her second book was named a Stonewall Honor Title by the American Library Association. She was the 2022-23 Canadian Writer-in-Residence with the Calgary Distinguished Writers’ Program. Originally from Saskatoon on Treaty Six territory and the homelands of the Métis, Leah is happy to have moved back home after many years away in Vancouver and Calgary.

Please visit http://www.leahhorlick.com/