Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
St. Elizabeth's Anglican Church,
5324 Bromley Road, Burlington, Ontario (Map here.)
If you do any kind of creative writing, fiction
or nonfiction, this workshop is for you. What do publishers and agents all look
for? Voice. We’ll tackle the nitty-gritty of creating a voice that’s all you
while avoiding common errors that the drain life from your prose.
You’ll see how to put words on paper in a way that
will grip the reader’s imagination, and you'll discover how to make your
writing more vivid, more elegant and more powerful.
Fee: $37.17 +
hst = $42 paid
in advance or $39.82 + hst = $45 at the door
How to Make
Yourself Write
A Creativity
Workout
Saturday, March 14, 2020
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
St. Catharines Central Library, Mills Room, 54
Church Street, St. Catharines, Ontario (Map here.)
Let's get
motivated! This
workshop is designed to help you find the time and the inspiration to write. No
more staring at a blank screen. Come to this workshop and give yourself a
kick-start, and then learn how to keep going. This creativity workout will get
your words flowing and help you make the breakthrough into the next level of
writing.
Fee: $37.17 +
13% hst = $42 in advance or 39.82 + 13% hst = $45
at the door
How to Write Great Characters
Saturday, March 28, 2020
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
London Central Library, Stevenson & Hunt Room B
251 Dundas
St, London, Ontario. (Map here).
Whatever
you're writing ~ fiction or
nonfiction ~ readers will care about your story only if they care about your
people. In this workshop, you'll learn techniques for creating fictional
characters and depicting real people. You’ll learn how to breathe life into the
page so that your characters start telling you how the story should go.
Fee: $37.17 + hst = $42
in advance or $39.82 + hst = $45 at the door
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 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 Brian's classes and
workshops here.
See Brian’s complete schedule here, including writing workshops, weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in, 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.
