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The Creative Blender Workshop with Elee Kraljii Gardiner
 Get your creative mojo working!
Join Elee for an inspiring mix of exercises in all genres and styles, guaranteed to get things moving in your creative life. Tips, techniques and take-aways galore. Bring a pen, pencil or laptop, and get ready for takeoff!
This interactive workshop will push your writing in new directions.
Elee Kraljii Gardiner founded and directs Thursdays Writing Collective, a program of free, drop-in creative writing classes in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. She is the editor and publisher of five chapbooks from the Collective, including V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, which was shortlisted for the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award. Her writing, which earned the 2011 Lina Chartrand Poetry Award, appears in North American anthologies and publications.
The Creative Blender
When: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Where: W Room, Woodward's Building, 5th floor, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. Map.
Price: $50 for the Creative Blender or
$75 for the Creative Blender and From Diary to Graphic Narrative Workshop Bundle.
Click here to register for the Creative Blender.
Click here to register for the Workshop Bundle.
Or call 604-681-9161 to register by phone.
**Please note: Only the Creative Blender and From Diary to Graphic Narrative can be bundled. Other workshops cannot be bundled.
From Diary to Graphic Narrative with Sarah Leavitt
 Thinking about sharing your personal experience in a short comic or full-length book? This 3-hour workshop will introduce you to writing a graphic memoir, with lots of drawing and writing exercises and a little bit of discussion. You'll learn the basics of composition, focus, viewpoint and story. People of all drawing abilities are encouraged to join.
Sarah Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist. Her first book, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me, a graphic memoir, has been published in Canada, the US and the UK, and a German edition is forthcoming in May 2013. Sarah holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, but is largely self-taught as an artist and cartoonist. She has taught workshops, developed an introductory
university course on comics and has read from her work at numerous festivals.
From Diary to Graphic Narrative
When: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 2 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: W Room, Woodward's Building, 5th floor, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. Map.
Price: $50 for From Diary to Graphic Narrative or
$75 for From Diary to Graphic Narrative and the Creative Blender Workshop Bundle
Click here to register for From Diary to Graphic Narrative.
Click here to register for the Workshop Bundle.
Or call 604-681-9161 to register by phone.
**Please note: Only the Creative Blender and From Diary to Graphic Narrative can be bundled. Other workshops cannot be bundled.
Getting It Into Print with Billeh Nickerson
 Join Billeh Nickerson, author and editor, as he delves into the secrets of getting your work
published. Come prepared to learn the key do's and don'ts of submitting your work, cover
letters tips and tricks, essential market positioning and some useful tips on what writers can learn from rejection letters (believe it!). This workshop is as fun as it is instructional.
Billeh Nickerson is the former editor of Event and PRISM International, two of Canada's most prestigious literary journals. He is also a longtime contributing editor to Geist. His books include The Asthmatic Glassblower, McPoems and Impact: The Titanic Poems. He lives in Vancouver, and is Chair of the Creative Writing department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Getting It Into Print
When: Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Time: 10 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: W Room, Woodward's Building, 5th floor, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. Map.
Price: $50 for Getting It Into Print
Click here to register for Getting It Into Print.
Or call 604-681-9161 to register by phone.
Writing from Life with Jane Silcott
 Life writing—it's interesting, it's important and it's challenging!
This workshop is for you, if:
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You are working on (or thinking about) a memoir, true story, or personal essay,
- You are embarking on the life-writing adventure for the first time,
- You are underway with a manuscript, or with a revision.
You will spend the afternoon writing a lot and talking a little, in exercises designed to help you get things moving, find your voice, find out what you're really writing about, and focus your project. The workshop will also cover the ethical questions of writing and publishing true stories. All in the salubrious company of other writers.
Jane Silcott is a writer and teacher at the UBC Writing Centre and the SFU Southbank Writing Program. Her writing has been published in Geist and other literary magazines and has been recognized by the CBC Literary Awards, the National and Western Magazine Awards and the Creative Nonfiction Collective of Canada. Jane's debut collection of personal essays, Everything Rustles, is available this spring from Anvil Press.
Writing from Life
When: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Time: 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Where: The Listel Hotel, 1300 Robson Street, Vancouver. Map.
Price: $50 for Writing from Life
Click here to register for Writing from Life.
Or call 604-681-9161 to register by phone.
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