STORY PLAY: THE ART OF WRITING FICTION workshop with Trevor Corkum

STORY PLAY: THE ART OF WRITING FICTION WORKSHOP WITH TREVOR CORKUM

In this low-key workshop hosted in the Victoria Historic Schoolhouse, writers will use a range of materials and prompts to generate story ideas and work through the key building blocks of writing compelling fiction. While the workshop may be a playful refresher for more seasoned writers, no previous writing experience is required–just a healthy sense of curiosity!
Award-winning writer, educator, and scholar Trevor Corkum who has facilitated workshops and lectured across Canada and around the world. His fiction, essays, journalism and reviews have appeared in Canada’s leading periodicals, including the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Walrus and others. Trevor’s story “Lost Boys” was shortlisted for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Presenter Bio:
Trevor Corkum’s debut novel The World After Us will be published by Doubleday Canada in 2024. An award-winning writer, educator, and scholar, he has facilitated workshops and lectured across Canada and around the world. His fiction, essays, journalism and reviews have appeared in Canada’s leading periodicals, including the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Walrus and others. Trevor’s story “Lost Boys” was shortlisted for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In Canada, his writing has been recognized with nominations for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Western Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, the CBC Short Story Prize, and the CBC Nonfiction Prize. Trevor was the 2017 Writer-in-Residence at Lester B. Pearson United World College and a 2017 Writer-in-Residence on the Canada C3 expedition. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, and an MA and PhD in Adult Education from the University of Toronto, where his doctoral research explored the intersections of migration, storytelling, place, and belonging. With Suzette Mayr and Dionne Brand, he served on the 2022 jury for the Blue Metropolis Violet Prize, to recognize a body of work by a Canadian LGBTQ writer, and has served as a juror for the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. He has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the Prince Edward Island Arts Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. After living in Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, and Europe, Trevor now lives in Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island), where he is a co-proprietor of The Hideout, a rural riverside property which offers retreats and self-directed residencies for Canadian and international writers.

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