Writing your life and other true stories workshop

Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 10:00am

Zehrs
472 Bayfield Street
The Community Room
Barrie, ON
L4M 5A2

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.

Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years and publishes Quick Brown Fox, Canada’s most popular blog for writers. He has helped many of his students get published, including our guest speaker, Ross Pennie...

Dr. Ross Pennie is the author of The Unforgiving Tides (Manor House Publishing). He has also signed a contract with ECW Press for three medical mystery novels. The first of these, Tainted, won Arts Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction. Ross's second novel, Tampered, came out in May. 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: $38.94 + hst = $44 in advance or $42.48 + hst = $48 if you wait to pay at the door.

To reserve your spot now, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca