Writing your life and other true
stories
With guest author Ross Pennie
Saturday, June 23, 2018
10: a.m. – 4 p.m.
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.
Ross Pennie is
the author of The Unforgiving Tides, a doctor’s
memoir of Papua New Guinea (Manor House Publishing). Ross also writes medical
mystery novels, published by ECW Press. The first of these, Tainted, came out in 2010 and won Arts Hamilton
Literary Award for Fiction. He’s followed up with three more medical
mysteries: Tampered, Up in Smoke, and Beneath
the Wake. (For
more about Ross's mysteries or to buy one, see here).
At the workshop, Ross will speak on how to
turn ordinary life into dramatic material and will answer questions about how
he wrote his memoir and got it published.
Fee: 37.17 + hst = $42 paid in advance or 39.82 + hst = $45 if
you wait to pay at the door
You Can Write
Great Dialogue
Saturday, July 14, 2018
12:30 – 3:30 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.
Fee: 37.17 + 13% hst = 42 paid
in advance or 39.82 + 13% hst = 45 if you wait to pay at the
door
To pay in advance, make your cheque out to the
Caledon Public Library and mail it to:
Attention: Megan Renkema , Caledon Public
Library, Albion Bolton Branch, 150 Queen Street South, Bolton, ON, L7E 1E3
Or you can pay in advance in person at any Caledon
Library branch.
To reserve a spot now, sign up online here.
How to Write
Great Characters
Saturday,
July 21, 2018
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Ave, Guelph, Ontario (Map here.)
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Ave, Guelph, 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 paid
in advance or 39.82 + hst = 45 if
you wait to pay 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 Saint John. 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 Brian’s complete current schedule here, including writing workshops,
weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in Algonquin Park, Bolton, Barrie,
Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Collingwood, Cambridge, Georgetown, Guelph,
Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland, Mississauga, Oakville,
Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Saint John, NB, Sudbury, Toronto,
Windsor, Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA,
Ontario and beyond.
