WRITING STORIES FROM OUR LIVES workshop

Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 7:30pm

Blue Heron Books
62 Brock St. W.
Uxbridge, ON
L9P 1N1

Humans are the Story Species. It’s one of the few characteristics we share across cultures, across genders, across ages — we understand our lives and ourselves through the stories we tell.

In this set of eight writing workshops we will be practicing how to make our ideas into essays, our memories into memoirs and our lives into literature.

Each class will cover some aspect of the writing craft – the skills necessary to create strong prose that engages the reader and keeps them turning the page, including strong characterization, sensory description, vivid details, metaphors and accuracy.

The classes will also cover how to overcome hesitation about writing personal material, and how to transform material that may have begun as personal experience into stories that are transformative either as memoir, or as fiction.

We will be sharing our writing in class in a safe and respectful environment.

Participants will be encouraged to polish at least one of the pieces prepared in class to submit to a writing contest or a call for submission. Course fee includes a copy of the text.

Course Fee: $240 + HST

For more information, please visit the Writing Stories from Our Lives workshop page.