8 week Poetry Workshop with rob mclennan

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 7:00pm

Collected Works Bookstore
1242 Wellington St (at Holland)
Ottawa, ON
K1Y 3A4

rob mclennan just booked a series of dates for my his new seasonal poetry workshops at Collected Works Bookstore in Ottawa. They will be happening on Wednesday nights: September 22, 29; October 6, 13 & 27; November 3, 24 & December 1.

An eight week poetry workshop (spread out a little, for the sake of scheduling), the course will focus on workshopping writing of the participants, as well as reading various works by contemporary writers, both Canadian & American. participants should be prepared to have a handful of work completed before the beginning of the first class, to be workshopped(roughly ten pages).

Previous participants include: Amanda Earl, Roland Prevost, Pearl Pirie, Sandra Ridley, Marilyn Irwin, Rachel Zavitz, Janice Tokar, Nicholas Lea & Marcus McCann.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Born in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections gifts (Talonbooks), a compact of words (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), wild horses (University of Alberta Press) and a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.
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COST: $200 for 8 sessions.
TIME: 7pm to 9pm.

For more information, contact rob mclennan at rob_mclennan@hotmail.com or 613 239 0337.