Weekly creative writing courses this fall for beginning to advanced writers

Exploring Creative Writing

10 weeks of discovering your creative side

Thursday afternoons, Sept 24 - Nov 26

12:45 - 2:45

Unity Church Unit 8, 3075 Ridgeway Drive, Mississauga (This is just north off Dundas between Hwy 403 and Winston Churchill Blvd. Map here.)

This is your chance to take up writing in a warm, supportive environment. We’ll explore writing fictional stories and writing true stories, writing technique and creativity technique, getting down your very best writing and just for fun writing.
The class has the same format as "Welcome to Creative Writing," but we look at different aspects of writing. With either course, you 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.

Read reviews of Brian's courses here.

158.41 + hst = 179

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

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Writing Personal Stories

8 weeks of sharing and writing

Thursday mornings, Oct 8 – Nov 26

9:45 – 11:45 a.m.

St Cuthbert's Anglican Church, 1541 Oakhill Drive, Oakville, Ontario (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.

Read reviews of the Writing Personal Stories course here, and to read reviews of other courses and workshops, just scroll down.

Fee: 140.71 plus 13% hst = 159

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

The Next Step in Creative Writing

10 weeks of creative growth

Offered in two locales:

Wednesday evenings, 6:45 – 9:00 p.m.
Sept 30 – Dec 2, 2015

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

And

Thursday evenings, 6:45 – 9:00 p.m.
Sept 24 – Dec 3, 2015

St. Alban's Church, 537 Main Street, Georgetown, Ontario (In the village of Glen Williams (Map here.)

The Next Step in Creative Writing will challenge you to take a step up in your writing. Over the ten weeks of classes, you’ll be asked to bring in five 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 class, 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 supportive group and a rewarding class.

Check out two reviews of the Next Step course here. And see more reviews of Brian’s courses and workshops here.

Fee: 176.11 + 13% hst = 199.  

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

Note: I start working out the schedule for when participants are due to bring in a piece of their writing three weeks before our start date, so please try to sign up by September 9. In any case, these courses fill up, so enroll early to avoid disappointment. ~ Brian

Intensive Creative Writing

12 weeks towards mastering your craft

Offered in two time slots this fall:

Tuesday afternoons, 12:15 – 2:45 p.m.

Sept 15 – Dec 8, 2015

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

Or

Wednesday afternoons, 12:15 – 2:45 p.m.

Sept 16 – Dec 9

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

This Intensive course 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 twelve weeks of classes, you’ll be asked to bring in six 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.

Check out a review of the Intensive course here. More reviews here.

Fee: 193.81 + 13% hst = 219

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

Note: I start working out the schedule for when participants are due to bring in a piece of their writing three weeks before our start date, so please try to sign up by August 25. In any case, these courses fill up, so enroll early to avoid disappointment. ~ Brian

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. With Cecilia Anca Popescu, he is the co-author of Bloody Christmas, a memoir of the 1989 Romanian Revolution, which is currently under consideration with a literary agent. But his proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get their first book published and launch their careers as authors.

See Brian’s full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Algonquin Park, Barrie, Brampton, 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.