This is an online talk offered via Zoom Webinar. Please register here. World Building

In this workshop, Jael Richardson unpacks the strategy she used to build the dystopian world in her best-selling novel Gutter Child. From concept to final product, writers will learn how to build wild and imaginative, or close-to-real-life, settings that explore systems of power with practical, step-by-step guidance.

JAEL RICHARDSON is the executive director of the FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s q and an outspoken advocate on issues of diversity. She is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The memoir received a CBC Bookie Award, an Arts Acclaim Award and a My People Award. A children’s edition was published by Groundwood Books. Her essay “Conception” is part of Room magazine’s first Women of Colour edition, and excerpts from her first play, my upside down black face, appear in the anthology T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers. Jael Richardson received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph. She lives in Brampton, Ontario.

*These Imagine It creative writing workshops are supported by the City of Kitchener.  Space is limited and open to residents of Waterloo region.