Funny Because It’s True
“Humour is…urgent work,” writes William Zinsser in On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, calling it “the secret weapon of the nonfiction writer.” In this workshop, participants explore the craft of comedic storytelling, experiment with techniques that transform real experiences into compelling sentences and learn to sharpen their unique comic voice to captivate readers through the funny, frustrating, and memorable moments of life.
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This session will be closed-captioned. Closed captioning provided by Zoom auto transcription.
This session will be followed by a Q&A.
Author
Eufemia Fantetti’s fiction collection, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award and won a Bressani Prize. Her second book, My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir, was a finalist for the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards. Her nonfiction can be found in various anthologies, including Love Me True, Body & Soul, and Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity and Home and one she co-edited, Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language. She teaches writing at Humber Polytechnic and the University of Guelph-Humber.
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