Writing your life & other personal
stories
8 weeks of sharing and writing
Winter session
Tuesday mornings, Jan 27 – March 17,
2015
9:45 – 11:45 a.m.
St Cuthbert's Anglican Church, 1541 Oakhill Drive, Oakville (Map here.)
If you've
ever considered writing your personal stories, this course is for
you. We’ll look at memoirs, travel
writing, personal essays, family history ~ personal stories of all kinds. Plus, of course, we’ll work on creativity
and writing technique and have fun doing it.
Whether you want to write a book
or just get your thoughts down on paper, this weekly course will get you
going.
We'll reveal the tricks and conventions
of telling true stories, and we’ll show you how to use the techniques of
the novel to recount actual events. Weekly writing exercises and friendly
feedback from the instructor will help you move forward on this writing
adventure. Whether you want to write for your family and friends or for a wider
public, don't miss this course.
Instructor Brian Henry has
been a book editor, writer, 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 and is currently
co-writing a memoir of the 1989 anti-communist revolution in Romania . But his
proudest boast is that he's helped many of his students get published.
Fee: 140.71 plus 13% hst = 159
Number of attendees strictly limited.
See Brian's full schedule here, including writing
workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton, Burlington,
Caledon, Cambridge, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Midland,
Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara on the Lake, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa,
Peterborough, St. Catharines, Stouffville, Sudbury, Toronto, Halton,
Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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