Join us for a “Writing your life” workshop

Writing your life and other true stories

Sunday, April 12, 2026
1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Offered online and accessible wherever there's Internet

Have you ever considered writing your memoirs or family history? This workshop will introduce you to the tricks and conventions of telling true stories and will show you how to use the techniques of the novel to recount actual events. Whether you want to write for your family or for a wider public, don't miss this workshop.

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.

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. 

Ready to Come About has also been a staff pick at many independent bookstores, it’s been discussed in at least 42 book clubs to date, and it’s been released as an audiobook by Scribd (now Everand) and has been translated into Portuguese.

Sue has just completed a novel set in the largely invisible world of home care for which she is looking for a publishing home. 

You can read more about Ready to Come About at Dundurn Press here.

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, taught creative writing at Ryerson University, and has led workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Saskatoon to Toronto to Charlottetown. 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 reviews of and works inspired by Brian's classes, workshops, and retreats here.

Fee: $36.28 plus hst = $41

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

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See all of Brian’s upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and weekend retreats here.