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LitFest: Workshop: Crafting Perfect Sentences
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DEADLINE: October 18, 2025 - 11:45 pm
Take part in this exciting workshop with Julie Sedivy.
When: Saturday, October 18, 2025 @ 12 to 2 pm
Where: Edmonton Public Library - Stanley A. Milner branch (Community Room), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Tickets: $15
Sentences are the foundation of all writing, and mastering the sentence is essential to developing a strong writing voice. In this workshop, Sedivy will bring in gorgeous, surprising, intriguing, devastating sentences from a variety of genres, including romance, sci-fi, fantasy, young adult and children’s books, in addition to more traditional literary genres. She will discuss what makes a wonderful opening sentence, what kinds of final sentences leave the reader satisfied while also keeping the work alive in the mind. You will talk about sentence structure, how it can be exploited to create pacing or heighten certain emotions, and how varying the structure of sentences can make a passage more interesting or beautiful. You will discuss how some parts of the sentence highlight information more than others, much like throwing a spotlight on some of the content, making that portion of the sentence especially memorable. Or how certain devices subtly allude to background information that the reader can quickly construct, without bogging the prose down with boring exposition. This session will begin by having participants free-write a short passage, and then we would play with various structures and devices to alter their original sentences and observe the effects. This interactive workshop will have very broad appeal for writers across genres, and will be useful for beginning and advanced writers alike.
For more information please visit: https://litfestalberta.org/events/