Making Tracks

Compiled by Liam Klenk

ONGOING EVENTS

Zürich | Bürkliplatz boat station
17 September, 22 October, 19 November, 17 December | 13:15
Writers on Board meets one Sunday a month to take the 13:30 round-trip ferry to Rapperswil (return into Zürich: 17:25).
For more information about the program, contact [email protected]

Zürich | Zümikon
12, 19, 26 September, 3 October | 09:00-11:30
Creative Writing Workshops run by Amy Aves Challenger
More information about pricing and contact details are on Amy’s website: https://www.amyaveschallenger.com/workshops

Zürich | Kaufleuten and the Literaturhaus offer a full program of readings and cultural events (see below for a select few).
www.kaufleuten.ch/events/kultur
http://www.literaturhaus.ch/literaturhaus/programm

Mslexia lists literary competitions with closing dates—good luck!
mslexia.co.uk/writing-competitions

SEPTEMBER

Zürich | 1 September-1 December
The Woolf Short Story Competition open for submissions
Entry rules and submission: thewoolf.org/competitions

Zürich | 17 August-3 September 2017
Zürcher Theater Spektakel annual performing arts festival at the Landiwiese
https://www.theaterspektakel.ch/

Zürich | Literaturhaus
6 September 2017 | 19:30
Reading by Taiye Selasi, from her book Ghana Must Go
http://www.literaturhaus.ch/literaturhaus/veranstaltungen/taiye-selasi-ghana-must-go

Zürich | Kaufleuten
11 September 2017 | 20:00
Reading by Yaa Gyasi, from her book Homegoing
http://www.kaufleuten.ch/event/yaa-gyasi/

Webinar
12 September 2017 | 9:00
Place in Fiction with Anindita Basu-Sempere, organized by SCBWI Switzerland.
How does place reveal character and provide sources of conflict? How can experience of place add resonance to stories, in particular to endings?
https://switzerland.scbwi.org/events/webinar-place-in-fiction/

Geneva
16 September 2017 | 10:00
Geneva Writers Group: Workshop Finding Your Gold: Journaling and Essays, with Susan Tiberghien,
followed by the launch of Offshoots 14
http://www.genevawritersgroup.org/events

Contest
17 September 2017 | Midnight
Retreat West Short Story Competition
Write a short story for adults of no more than 1,000 words.
https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions/retreat-west-short-story-competition