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| The Calling a YA novel by Kelley Armstrong a New York Times #1 bestselling author and one of Brian's students |
Picture Books to Young Adult Novels
Thursday evenings, 7 – 9 p.m.
September 24 – November 26, 2020 {no class Nov 12}
Offered
online and accessible from anywhere there's internet
Note: “Welcome to Creative Writing” is also on offer this fall. See here.
We’ll have two published children’s authors as
guest speakers:
Guest speaker Jennifer Mook-Sang grew
up in Guyana and moved to Canada when she was fourteen. While reading
bedtime stories to her two sons, she fell in love with picture books and decided to
write one of her own. In one of Brian Henry's classes she found the
beginnings of a story. That story grew into the humorous middle-grade
novel Speechless, published by Scholastic Canada.
Speechless won the Surrey Schools Book of the Year Award, was
shortlisted for many others, and was recommended by the Ontario Library
Association, the Canadian Childrens’ Book Centre, the CBC, and the TD Summer
Reading Club.
Since then, Jennifer has also published a picture
book, Captain Monty Takes the Plunge, with Kids Can Press. Captain Monty is the
boldest, stinkiest pirate to sail the six or seven seas; in fact, he’s never
had a bath. Naturally, the Junior Library Guild immediately selected him for
its fall list of recommended books; it was short-listed for the Rainforest of Reading Award; and the Canadian Children’s
Book Centre put it on its best books of the year list.
Jennifer has discovered another
facet of being a children's author: she's traveled across Canada speaking to
hordes of kids about her writing journey; encouraging them to read, write, and
revise. Who knew that Brian's nudging to read aloud to the class would come in
so handy someday?
Speechless is available online here. And Captain
Monty Takes the Plunge is
available here. And of course they’re both available in book
stores everywhere.
Kira Vermond is
an award-winning writer with over 2,000 articles to her name. She has been a
frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, CBC
and Today's Parent.
Kira is the author of six nonfiction books for
young readers: Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets
Popular (more here) Why Don’t Cars Run on Apple Juice (more here); Half-Truths
and Brazen Lies, (more here); Why
We Live Where We Live (more here) Growing
Up: Inside and Out (nominated
for on Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Award); and The Secret Life of Money: A Kid's Guide to Cash (which was my son’s and daughter’s favourite
book the year it came out, although my kids are four years apart).
Plus, coming in 2021, Why Does My Shadow Follow Me?
Fee:
$176.11 plus 13% hst = $199
To reserve your spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
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. Brian
is the author of a children’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Tribute Publishing).
But his proudest boast is that he’s has helped many
of his students get published.
See Brian's complete
current schedule here, including writing workshops, weekly online writing classes, and weekend
retreats in, Alliston, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon,
Collingwood, Georgetown, Georgina, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point, Kingston,
Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland, Mississauga, Oakville, Ottawa,
Peterborough, St. Catharines, Southampton, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor,
Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and
beyond.
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