Writing Your Life & Other Personal Stories, Jan 27 – March 17 in Oakville

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.

To reserve your spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

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.