Great weekly courses this summer: Welcome to Creative Writing and Intensive Creative Writing

Welcome to Creative Writing

8 weeks of exploring your creative side

Thursday evenings, July 2 – Aug 20, 2015

7 – 9 p.m.
Appleby United Church, 4407 Spruce Ave, Burlington, Ontario (Map here.)

This is your chance to take up writing in a warm, supportive environment. This course will open the door to all kinds of creative writing. We’ll visit short story writing and children’s writing, writing in first person and in third person, and writing just for fun. 

You’ll get a shot of inspiration every week and an assignment to keep you going till the next class. Best of all, this class will provide a zero-pressure, totally safe setting, where your words will grow and flower.

Note: Read two reviews of Brian Henry's introductory creative writing courses here. More reviews here.

Fee:  140.71 plus 13% hst = 159

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

Intensive Creative Writing

Two sessions offered:

8 Tuesday afternoons, June 30 – Aug 18

12:15 to 2:45 p.m.

First set of readings emailed June 23

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

8 Thursday afternoons, July 2 – Aug 20

12:30 – 2:45 p.m.

First readings emailed June 25
Appleby United Church, 4407 Spruce Ave, Burlington, Ontario (Map here.)

Intensive Creative Writing isn't for beginners; it's for people who have been writing for a while or who have done a course or two before and are working on their own projects. Over the eight 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 addressing the needs of the group, and 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.
Note: Check out a review of the Intensive course here. More reviews here.

Fee: 184.96 + 13% hst = 179

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

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Instructor Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He publishes Quick Brown Fox, Canada’s most popular blog for writers, teaches creative writing at Ryerson University and has led workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia to Charlottetown. But his proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get their first book published and launch their careers as authors.

Read reviews of Brian's weekly courses and Saturday workshops here.

See Brian’s full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Collingwood, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara on the Lake, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Sudbury, Thessalon, Toronto, Windsor, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.