HPL Writing Workshop with Vinh Nguyen

Sharpen your writing skills with fellow writers in this workshop led by Vinh Nguyen

This workshop focuses on the language of cinema and how it can be utilized in written texts. Learn about techniques such as montage, zoom, close-ups, crossing-cutting and establishing shots through examples and creative exercises. Bring a pen and notebook or laptop.

Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in Brick, Literary Hub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, The Criterion Collection’s Current and MUBI’s Notebook. He is a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant and diasporic writing. He is the co-editor of the academic books Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada and The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives and the author of Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience. He was short-listed for a National Magazine Award and has received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature. In 2022, he was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction for emerging LGBTQ writers.