How to Write
Great Dialogue
With
special guest author Hannah McKinnon
Saturday, June 10, 2017
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Accessible to beginners and meaty enough for
experienced writers, this workshop will show you how to use dialogue to
make your stories more dynamic and dramatic.Whether
you’re writing fiction or memoir, you need to be able to write great dialogue
that both sounds natural and packs dramatic punch, and you need to know how to
mix your dialogue and narrative so that your characters come alive. Come
to this workshop and learn both the basics and the best tricks of the trade.
Workshop leader 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 St. John. But his proudest boast is
that he has helped many of his students
get published.
Guest speaker Hannah McKinnon, the the
author of Time After Time (published by HarperCollins in Britain), a novel about love, loss and second chances that’s full of
humour. Her second and third books have been contracted by MIRA (a North
American imprint owned by HarperCollins). The first of these, a novel about the
implosion of two families and tentatively titled The Secrets That Made Us, is scheduled for the summer of 2018, and her third book for the summer
after that.
When she’s not writing novels for adults, Hannah’s three boys
give her plenty of material for children’s books. You
can read a review of Time After Time here. At the
workshop, Hannah will be speaking about how she uses dialogue in her writing
and how she aspires to use dialogue. She’ll also be sharing her story of her writing
career so far.
Read a review of "How to write
great dialogue" here.
For more reviews of Brian's weekly courses and Saturday workshops see here and scroll down.
Fee: 43.36 + 13%
hst = 49 paid in advance by mail or Interac
or 46.90 + 13% hst = 53 if you
wait to pay at the door
To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See Brian's full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Algonquin Park, 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, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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