C Magazine, in partnership with AKA Artist-Run (Saskatoon, SK), The New Gallery (Calgary, AB), and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, MB), is excited to host an info session for emerging art writers based in the prairies.

In this program, C’s Editor Jac Renée Bruneau will offer an array of questions, prompts, and principles for starting a piece of writing. Additionally, attendees will glean some standard, entry-level insight about publishing, putting together an article pitch, and digesting editorial feedback.

The event title is a riff on Janet Malcolm’s “41 False Starts,” an essay which is comprised entirely of beginnings, culminating into a multitudinous portrait not only of the artist who is her subject, but of her own conception of how the task can be approached. This session begins with the tenet that there is no single way to write about art, and moves through queer methodologies with which to think about imagination, sensation, association, citation, translation, analysis, and creation as they’re embedded in acts of writing. Eliding experimentation for experimentation’s sake, the focus here is to bring participants closer to their individual voice.

If you wish to participate, please write to editor@cmagazine.com to register, including a quick note confirming that you’re an emerging writer based in the prairies. “Emerging” means different things to different people; all that matters is that you’re interested in learning more about how to start publishing your work.

Please submit any accessibility requests to info@cmagazine.com. Note that we will be utilizing Zoom’s live transcription feature.

Acknowledgments

We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.

Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to the artists we work with, our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.

Plug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all, and enable us to continue to present excellent programs. Please consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at https://plugin.org/support or by contacting Angela Forget at angela@plugin.org.

For more information on public programming and exhibitions contact Allison Yearwood at allison@plugin.org.

For general information, please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043