Summer writing classes: Welcome to Creative Writing and Intensive Creative Writing

Welcome to Creative Writing

8 weeks of exploring your creative side

Summer session

Tuesday afternoons, July 5 – Aug 23, 2016

1:00 – 3:00 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: For a pair of reviews of the "Welcome to Creative Writing" course, see here.

Fee: 140.71 plus 13% hst = 160

Number of attendees strictly limited.

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

Intensive Creative Writing

8 weeks towards mastering your craft

Offered at two times:

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

July 6 – Aug 24, First class emailing sent out June 30

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

And

Wednesday evenings, 6:45 – 9:15 p.m.

July 6 – Aug 24, First class emailing sent out June 30

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 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.  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.

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

Fee: 159.29 + 13% hst = 180

Number of attendees strictly limited.

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

This course will fill up; enroll early to avoid disappointment.

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 Saint John. But his proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published. 

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