Writing your life & other true stories
Saturday, June 1, 2013
10 a.m. ? 4 p.m.
Newmarket Community Centre & Lion?s Hall
200 Doug Duncan Drive, Newmarket, Ontario (Map here.)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. He has helped many of his students get published, including our guest speaker, Dr. Ross Pennie... Ross Pennie?is the author of?The Unforgiving Tides, a doctor?s memoir of Papua New Guinea?(Manor House Publishing). Ross also writes medical mystery novels, published by ECW Press. The first of these,?Tainted,?came out in 2010?and won Arts Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction.? Ross?s second mystery,?Tampered, came out in 2011, and his third is due out this year.?Dr. Pennie 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 + 13% hst =?$44?paid in advance by mail or Interacor $342.48 + 13% hst =?$48?if you wait to pay at the door. See Brian Henry's schedule?here,?including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Kingston, Peterborough, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Georgetown, Milton, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Dundas, Kitchener, Guelph, London, Woodstock, Orangeville, Newmarket, Barrie, Orillia, Gravenhurst,?Gravenhurst, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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