Next Step in Creative Writing, Tuesday evenings, April 22 – June 24, in Burlington

The Next Step in Creative Writing

10 weeks of creative growth

Tuesday evenings, 6:45 – 9:00 p.m.

April 22 – June 24, 2014 
First readings emailed April 15

Appleby United Church, 4407 Spruce Ave, Burlington, Ontario (Map here.)

This course will challenge you to take a step up in your writing.  The format will be similar to the "Intensive" courses, but with less reading between classes each week, leaving you with more writing time.

Over the ten weeks of classes, you’ll be asked to bring in four pieces of your writing for detailed feedback. All your pieces may be from the same work, such as a novel in progress, or they may be stand alone pieces. You bring whatever you want to work on.

Besides critiquing pieces, the instructor will give short lectures at the start of each class, addressing the needs of the group.

In addition to learning how to critique your own work and receiving constructive suggestions about your writing, you’ll discover that the greatest benefits come from seeing how your classmates approach and critique a piece of writing and how they write and re-write. This is a challenging course, but extremely rewarding.

Instructor Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing teacher for more than 25 years. He teaches at Ryerson University and has led writing workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia to Charlottetown. But his proudest boast is that he's helped many of his students get published.

Fee: $158.41 plus 13% hst = $179 Advance payment only, by mail or Interac

Note: These courses fill up, so enroll early to avoid disappointment.

To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Note: You can also take this class Thursday afternoons in Mississauga and Thursday evenings in Georgetown. Intensive Creative Writing, a similar but slightly more demanding course, is offered Wednesday afternoons in Burlington and Wednesday evenings in Mississauga. For more information or to register, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See Brian's full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Ottawa, Kingston, Peterborough, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Bolton, Bolton, Caledon, Georgetown, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Guelph, London, Orangeville, Newmarket, Barrie, Midland, Orillia, Thessalon, Algoma, Kitchener-Waterloo, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.