Writing Personal Stories
~ A wealth of writing and sharing
Online: Monday evenings, 6:30 – 8:30,
January 30 – April 3, 2023 (No class March 27)
Offered on Zoom and accessible from anywhere
there's internet
"Exploring Creative Writing" and
"Writing Little Kid Lit" are also offered starting in January.
Details 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.
Guest speaker Sue Williams lives
in Guelph, Ontario, with her husband. She worked as an occupational therapist
and never dreamt of being a writer. But, after a life altering experience, she
found herself with a story she felt needed telling and set about learning how
to tell it.
The first of many creative writing courses Sue took
was Brian Henry’s ‘Writing Personal Stories’. It was exactly what she needed,
and she has never looked back.
Sue’s memoir, Ready to Come About (Dundurn
Press, 2019) is endorsed by Miriam Toews, New York Times Best-Selling author
of Women Talking, and Cate Cochran, CBC Radio producer of The
Sunday Edition. It has been promoted by The Globe and Mail,
Canadian Yachting, Good Old Boat, and her professional magazine, Occupational
Therapy Now. And it has been a staff pick at many independent bookstores.
Also, it was recently released as an audiobook by Scribd and has been
translated into Portuguese for release in 2023.
Sue is now working on a novel set in the largely
invisible world of home care.
You can read more about Ready to Come About at Dundurn Press here.
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’s has helped many of his students get published.
Read reviews of Brian's various courses and
workshops here (and scroll
down).
Fee: $176.11
plus 13% hst = $199
To reserve your spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See all of Brian’s upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day
workshops, and weekend retreats here.
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