Events › Conflict, Chaos, and Your Nemesis: Writing Workshop with Leslie Greentree

We may duck behind chairs and fake terminal illness to avoid conflict in real life, but when we’re creating it on the page, conflict is a storyteller’s best friend. And what’s a story without a good (bad) nemesis and a healthy dollop of chaos? Through discussion and writing exercises, we’ll dig into the energy these nasty but necessary elements add to every story, and the ways you can harness these forces of evil for your own nefarious writerly purposes.

Leslie Greentree is the author of four books – Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For, which was shortlisted for a High Plains Book Award, the award-winning short story collection A Minor Planet for You, and two poetry books: go-go dancing for Elvis, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and guys named Bill. 

Leslie has won CBC literary competitions for short fiction and poetry, and the Sarah Selecky 2013 Little Bird short fiction competition. Leslie is also an occasional essayist and playwright. She is currently working on a novel. Formerly of Red Deer, she now lives in Edmonton.