Welcome to Creative
Writing
Nine weeks of
discovering your creative side
Wednesday afternoons, 12:45 –
2:45
April 18 – June 13, 2018
This is your chance to take up
writing in
a warm, supportive environment. This course will open the door to
writing short stories and writing dialogue, writing in first person and writing
in third person, writing just for fun and writing all kinds of things.
You’ll get a shot of inspiration every week and an
assignment to keep you going till the next class. Best of all, this class will
provide a zero-pressure, totally safe setting, where your words will grow and
flower.
Fee: $167.26 plus 13% hst = 189 (Space still available in this class)
To reserve your
spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
Writing Personal
Stories
8 weeks of sharing
and writing
Friday afternoons, 1:15 – 3:15 p.m.
April 13 – June 8, 2018 (No class June 1)
If you've ever considered writing your
personal stories, this course is for you. We’ll look at memoirs,
travel writing, personal essays, family history ~ personal stories of all
kinds. Plus, of course, we’ll work on creativity and writing technique and have
fun doing it.
Whether you want to write a book or just get your
thoughts down on paper, this weekly course will get you going. We'll reveal the tricks and conventions of telling
true stories, and we’ll show you how to use the techniques of the novel to
recount actual events. Weekly writing exercises and friendly feedback from
the instructor will help you move forward on this writing adventure. Whether
you want to write for your family and friends or for a wider public, don't miss
this course.
Fee:$159.29 plus 13% hst = $180
To reserve your
spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
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| The Calling a YA novel by Kelley Armstrong, a New York Times #1 bestselling author and one of Brian's students |
Writing Kid Lit ~
Picture Books to Young Adult
Thursday evenings, April 12 – June 14, 2018
7 – 9 p.m.
From picture books to young adult
novels, this weekly course is accessible
for beginners and meaty enough for advanced writers. Through lectures, in-class
assignments, homework, and feedback on your writing, we’ll give you ins and
outs of writing for younger readers and set you on course toward writing your
own books.
We’ll have two published children’s authors as
guest speakers:
Jennifer Mook-Sang grew
up in Guyana and moved to Canada when she was fourteen. While reading
bedtime stories to her two sons, she fell in love with picture books
and decided to write one of her own. In one of Brian
Henry's classes she found the beginnings of a story. That story grew
into the humorous middle-grade novel Speechless, published by Scholastic in 2015.
Speechless won the Surrey Schools Book of the Year Award, was
shortlisted for many others, and was recommended by the Ontario Library
Association, the Canadian Childrens’ Book Centre, the CBC, and the TD Summer
Reading Club.
Then in October 2017, Jennifer published her first
picture book Captain Monty Takes the Plunge with Kids Can Press. Captain Monty is the
boldest, stinkiest pirate to sail the six or seven seas; in fact, he’s never
had a bath. Naturally, the Junior Library Guild immediately selected him for
its fall list of recommended books. Captain Monty has also been nominated for
the Rainforest of Reading Award and Jennifer will be travelling to St. Lucia
for that Festival in March.
Kira Vermond is an
award-winning writer with over 1,500 articles to her name. She has been a
frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, CBC
and Today's Parent.
Kira is the author of four nonfiction books for young readers: Half-Truths
and Brazen Lies, (read more about
Half-Truths here); Why We
Live Where We Live (more here); Growing
Up: Inside and Out, (nominated for on Ontario Library
Association Forest of Reading Award) and The Secret Life of Money: A Kid's Guide to Cash (which
was my son’s and daughter’s favourite book the year it came out, although
my kids are four years apart). Kira lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Fee: $176.11 plus 13% hst = 199
The Next Step in Creative Writing
10 weeks of creative growth
Thursday afternoons, April 12 – June 14,
2018
12:30 – 2:45 p.m.
12:30 – 2:45 p.m.
First readings emailed April 5
Woodside Branch of the Oakville Public Library, 1274
Rebecca St, Oakville, Ontario (Map here)
The Next Step in Creative Writing
will challenge you to take a step up in your
writing. Over the ten weeks of classes, you’ll be asked to bring in five pieces of your
writing for detailed feedback. All your pieces may be from the same work, such
as a novel in progress, or they may be stand alone pieces. You bring whatever
you want to work on.
Besides critiquing pieces, the instructor will give short lectures at the start of class, addressing the needs of the group, and in addition to learning how to critique your own work and receiving constructive suggestions about your writing, you’ll discover that the greatest benefits come from seeing how your classmates approach and critique a piece of writing and how they write and re-write. This is a challenging course, but extremely rewarding.
Besides critiquing pieces, the instructor will give short lectures at the start of class, addressing the needs of the group, and in addition to learning how to critique your own work and receiving constructive suggestions about your writing, you’ll discover that the greatest benefits come from seeing how your classmates approach and critique a piece of writing and how they write and re-write. This is a challenging course, but extremely rewarding.
Fee: 176.11 + 13% hst = 199. (This class is currently full but a spot may well open up, so email to get on the waiting list.)
To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
Intensive Creative Writing
Ten weeks towards becoming a better writer
Ten weeks towards becoming a better writer
Offered in three locations:
Friday mornings, 10:15 – 12:45, April 6 – June 22
first readings emailed March 31
Glenview Church, Bethlehem Room
And
Wednesday evenings, 6:45 – 9:00 p.m., April 11 – June 14
first readings emailed April 4
St. Alban's Church, 537 Main Street, Georgetown,
Ontario (in the village of Glen Williams – Map here.) – Space still available in this class.
And
And
Tuesday afternoons, 12:30 – 2:45 p.m., April 10 – June 19
first readings emailed April 3
Intensive Creative Writing isn't for
beginners; it's for people who have been writing for a while or who have
done a course or two before and are working on their own projects. Over the ten
weeks of classes, you’ll be asked to bring in five pieces of your writing for
detailed feedback. All your pieces may be from the same work, such as a novel
in progress, or they may be stand alone pieces. You bring whatever you want to
work on.
Besides critiquing pieces, the instructor will give short lectures
addressing the needs of the group, and in addition to learning how to critique
your own work and receiving constructive suggestions about your writing, you’ll
discover that the greatest benefits come from seeing how your classmates approach
and critique a piece of writing and how they write and re-write. This is a
challenging course, but extremely rewarding.
Fee: $176.11
+ 13% hst = $199
Instructor 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. Brian is the author of a
children’s version of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Tribute
Publishing). But his proudest boast is that he’s has helped many
of his students get published.
See Brian’s complete current schedule here, including writing workshops, weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats
in Algonquin Park, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Georgetown,
Guelph, Hamilton, Ingersoll, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Midland, Mississauga,
Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Saint John, NB, Sudbury,
Thessalon, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka,
Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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