Crafting True Stories Using Fictional Techniques with Kelly-Anne Riess

This video will be available until February 17, 2025. Please note captions are auto-generated. Originally recorded January 16, 2025.
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Crafting True Stories Using Fictional Techniques with Kelly-Anne Riess
This webinar will teach participants how to employ fiction tools, such as character development, dialogue, and narrative structure, to create engaging nonfiction narratives, literary journalism pieces, and memoirs. We will look at how to turn real people into vivid characters and craft immersive scenes. We’ll also discuss pitching and publishing strategies, ensuring participants are equipped to bring their stories to a wider audience.
A Q & A will follow the presentation
Presenter
Kelly-Anne Riess is an award-winning journalist, poet and documentary filmmaker who divides her time between Regina and Winnipeg. Her articles have been published in the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine and Canadian Geographic. Her book of poetry To End a Conversation was published by Thistledown Press.
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Host
Cassidy McFadzean is the author of three books of poetry: Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024), Drolleries (McClelland & Stewart 2019), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and Hacker Packer (M&S 2015), which won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Walrus, Hazlitt, and in Dead Writers, a collaborative anthology out March 2025 with Invisible Publishing. Cassidy was born in Regina and currently lives in Toronto, where she is the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence at Sheridan College.
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