{"id":27763,"date":"2023-06-17T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27763"},"modified":"2023-06-12T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:52:08","slug":"june-2023-virtual-meeting-post-2-of-7-guest-speaker-olivia-atwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27763","title":{"rendered":"June 2023 Virtual Meeting; Post 2 of 7, 1:30PM: Guest Speaker Olivia Atwater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>5)<\/span><\/strong> GUEST SPEAKER<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>We welcome, now, for a ZOOM chat our special guest, Olivia Atwater, who will speak on \u201cFantasy as Satire.\u201d Olivia sent us this brief note:<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong>: Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two cats. When she told her second-grade history teacher that she wanted to work with history someday, she is fairly certain this isn\u2019t what either party had in mind. She has been, at various times, a historical re-enactor, a professional witch at a metaphysical supply store, a web developer, and a vending machine repairperson.<\/em><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fantasy as Satire<\/strong>: Though you can write a satire in just about any genre, fantasy lends itself particularly well to the idea for reasons both structural and psychological. Olivia Atwater discusses a few well-known examples of satire within the fantasy genre, and elaborates on why they succeed so well at their aims.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For more on our guest, visit her Website: oliviaatwater.com<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5) GUEST SPEAKER We welcome, now, for a ZOOM chat our special guest, Olivia Atwater, who will speak on \u201cFantasy as Satire.\u201d Olivia sent us this brief note: Biography: Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two cats. When … Continue reading June 2023 Virtual Meeting; Post 2 of 7, 1:30PM: Guest Speaker Olivia Atwater<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27789,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions\/27789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}