Workshops
Write Where Marginal Meets Terminal! Halifax Fed Central Workshops at 1113 Marginal Road.
- Long-Form Workshops 2010
The next round of long-form workshops will be offered in Fall 2010.
- Rural Writes Workshops
Rural Writes was designed by the Fed to offer equal opportunity for creative growth for our members and other writers living outside the metro Halifax area. Stay tuned for an announcement of another round of Rural Writes workshops.
Registration: Register by contacting the WFNS office at talk [at] writers.ns.ca or by calling us at (902) 423-8116. Register early as space is limited and all classes/workshops are subject to availability.
Payment: All fees are due upon registration. Mail your payment (cash, cheque or money order payable to WFNS) to WFNS, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS B3H 4P7. Do not mail cash. There are no refunds after the first class. A non-refundable $35 administration fee is applied to all classes.
Easy Payment Terms: WFNS offers payment installments to individuals who wish to participate in a specific class but cannot meet the full payment prior to the first session. We are happy to offer an arrangement of post-dated cheques, but these must be discussed and received by the date of the first class.
Insufficient Enrollment: Students will be notified should a course be cancelled as a result of insufficient enrollment. Registration fees will be reimbursed in full within two weeks.
Class Postponement: Participants will be notified if a class is postponed due to weather. The missed session will be rescheduled for the first available date.
Below are some organizations that offer writing courses - contact them directly for details and registration. You should also check with your local high school - many have occasional courses. You may be eligible for funding through the professional development grants of the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage (424-5929) or the Nova Scotia Talent Trust (494-4179).
- Illustrated Garden Journal Workshop with Christy Ann Conlin and Diana Baldwin
Wednesday July 21, 1- 4 pm
Prescott House Museum, 1633 Starrs Point Rd, Port Williams, tel 542 3984
Cost $45 includes painting materials
If you enjoyed The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady you’ll love this gardening journal workshop with author Christy Ann Conlin and artist and museum interpreter Diana Baldwin. We will look at the whys and hows of garden journaling including fun ways to get started and what to write about. We'll also look at simple illustration with easy, hands-on instruction in water colour painting the plants, flowers, birds and butterflies that abound in the beautiful Prescott House formal gardens. Workshop fees include painting materials and refreshments in the garden. No background experience required other than a love of words, gardens and summer colours!
- Poetry of Place: Writing, Photographing in the West of Ireland with Ronna Bloom
July 6-16.
This workshop offers both guidance and free reign to photograph or write. This tour is organized down to the last crumb of soda bread by http://www.strabotours.com/. For more information visit: http://www.ronnabloom.com/.
- St. Peter’s Colony: St. Peter’s Abbey, Muenster, SK
July 30 to August 6.
Cost: $260 per week. A late fee of $35 will apply.
There are still a few spots open. Please send completed applications to: Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, Attention: Colony Coordinator, Box 3986, Regina, SK S4P 3R9 or apply online. Details and application form can be found at: http://www.skwriter.com/?s=skwritercolonies&p=stpeter.
- The Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program in Creative Writing
Starting date: January 2011 (application deadline: October 8).
For all the details and application information, please visit: www.creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/content/writers.
- Piper’s Frith: Writing at Kilmory Resort, NL
October 12-16.
Cost: $615 (includes all program fees, accommodations, meals and social events).
The Literary Arts Foundation of NL invites you to join faculty Jessica Grant (fiction), Mary Dalton (poetry), and Kevin Major (prose) for small-group workshops and one-on-one explorations of your writing. New, emerging and mid-level career adult writers can apply. Visit http://www.literaryartsnl.com/ for details or to apply.
- PEI School of the Arts Transformational Journal Writing Workshop facilitated by Dianne Hicks Morrow
July 5-9, Gulf Shore School.
Cost: $300 for the 30 hours.
This workshop will help you write new material in your own true voice, in a lively way that will keep you writing long after you go home. You will be given tools to develop your writing voice, whether or not you already keep a journal. Workshop participants will also explore ways to transform their new or old journal entries into other forms of writing of their choice such as: memoir, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and/or plays. Participants will have the opportunity to read their writing for group feedback, using agreed-upon guidelines. The workshop is limited to the first ten registrants. For more information please go to www.peischoolofthearts.com or contact dianne.morrow@rogers.com.
- Professional Writers’ Association of Canada Workshop – Communicating For Cash
July 9 to 11 at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB.
A weekend workshop filled with sessions to show you how to make money from your writing and lots of opportunities to network and socialize with other professional writers. Fee and registration details at http://pwacatlantic.ca/events.php
- Yoga and Writing Workshop
Master Yoga teacher Alexandra Nedergaard and best-selling novelist William Kowalski will lead a one-day session of alternating yoga and writing classes. Not experience with yoga or writing is necessary to attend. Held at the New Life Studio, Three Thistles B&B, Mahone Bay, NS on Sunday, July 25. Cost is $110 ($100 without Lunch.) Call (902) 624-0727 or email williamkowalski@eastlink.ca to reserve your spot.
- Tatamagouche Centre’s Independent Writer’s Retreat
Sunday, July 25, 7 pm-Friday, July 30, 3 pm
This is an invitation to writers who want to work independently on a manuscript in a community designed to support writers. You will set your own schedule and decide the extent to which you want to mentor and critique one another as a small group. As a writer in retreat, you are also invited to give a short reading with writers in the workshop program, and participate in the mid-week World Café.
Ask about staying at the Centre for Read by the Sea (July 24th in nearby River John, NS). For more information, visit: http://www.tatacentre.ca/.
- Seawords Workshops.
Sponsored by the University of Prince Edward Island and the L.M. Montgomery Institute, the next SeaWords Workshop will be this summer, August 2 - 6, 2010, and will be hosted at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Returning this year is Jackie Kaiser, one of the top literary agents in Canada, from Westwood Creative Artists, Erika Ritter, a novelist, playwright, essayist and radio broadcaster from Toronto, Christy Ann Conlin, a best-selling novelist from Nova Scotia, Beth Powning, author of this year's The Sea Captain's Wife, and award-winning blogger, Bonnie Stewart. Registration is $500.00 per person (including meals for the week), and is on a first come, first serve basis. To register email seawords@upei.ca. Registration is capped at 20 participants so register early!
- The Fernie Writers Conference 2010 (BC)
July 18-25.
Faculty include: Robert Kroetsch, Sid Marty, Peter Oliva, Steven Heighton, Mae Moore, Betty Jane Hegerat, Kim McCullough and Alison Calder. For more information, please visit: http://www.ferniewriters.com/. Deadline: June 30.
- The Osprey Arts Centre presents Two Writing Workshops
Saturday, August 14, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. As part of the Shelburne Writers’ Festival,Workshop A: “Poetry and the Art of Letting Go” by Lorri Neilsen GlennWorkshop B: “Autobiography to Fiction”: Beth Powning and Stephanie Domet.
Fee: $25 Registration: email ospreyartscentre@eastlink.ca or call 875-2359
- She Writes Short Shorts – Summer Screenwriting Intensive for Women
The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op (AFCOOP) in conjunction with WFNS, the FILM 5 program and Women in Film and Television – Atlantic (WIFT-AT) is pleased to present a summer screenwriting intensive with screenwriter Tricia Fish, (New Waterford Girl). The workshop will take place in two weekend intensives, Aug. 14th/15th and 28th/29th 2010. Applicants will apply with a short film script suitable for a five – seven minute film. A jury of local screenwriters will select up to ten scripts to be developed through the workshop. Scripts can be any genre. Deadline to apply: July 12, 5pm Application details at http://www.afcoop.ca/node/476
- If You Want to Write for Children: Exploring the Process with Sheree Fitch
Friday, August 20, 7 pm-Sunday, August 22, 1 pm.
Guided writing exercises will focus on word play, freeing the imagination to get in touch with our "kindercentric" nature. You'll share your work, and discuss aspects of the journey from submission to dealing with rejection, if and how to get an agent, promotion, self -publishing and other practical matters. For more information, visit: http://www.tatacentre.ca/
Maritime Writers' Workshop is offered for one week in July at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Tuition, single occupancy and meals for the week cost around $650. For more information or to register, contact Allison Howells at (506) 452-6360 or ahowells [at] unb.ca. There are a usually a few scholarships available to Nova Scotian writers; ask for details on how to apply.
The Tatamagouche Centre usually hosts a week-long Community of Writers summer retreat each year. tatacent [at] tatacentre.ca (902) 657-2231 or 1-800-218-2220. RR # 3, Tatamagouche NS B0K 1V0.
The Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop offers mid-level writers inspiration and instruction in Antigonish, NS each summer. For information on this year's program, email gbheron [at] stfx.ca or phone (902) 867-4533.
The Sage Hill Writing Experience offers a series of summer workshops for adults and occasionally for teenagers. Contact sage.hill [at] sasktel.net for more information.
The Banff Centre for the Arts offers a plethora of courses on most genres. Scholarships are available. (403) 762- 6180. Box 1020, Station 28, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff AB T0L 0C0
Marquis of Dufferin Seaside Inn offers weekend Workshops by artists and writers on the Eastern shore of Nova Scotia. For more information, please visit their website at: http://marquisofdufferinmotel.com/
Henson College in Halifax occasionally offers courses by correspondence: (902) 494-2526. 6100 University Avenue, Halifax NS B3H 3J5
Mount Saint Vincent University Centre for Distance Learning and Continuing Education: (902) 457-6243, Continuing.Education [at] msvu.ca.
NSCC Continuing Education: Part-time, evenings, weekends and online. Please visit www.coned.nscc.ca For information or to enroll in a class, contact: NSCC Admissions, (902) 491-4911 or Toll Free 1-866-679-6722.
The Humber School for Writers offers a Correspondence Program in Creative Writing. 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. West, Toronto, ON, M8V 1K8
St. Mary's University occasionally offers very good creative writing courses through their Department of English. Call (902) 420-5701 for details or a course calendar.
Workshops held by other organizations are sometimes also listed on our events page.
Where Do Stories Come From? with Budge Wilson
Matter of Fact for Kids with Pam Hickman
Features that sell with donalee Moulton
Polishing the Stone (poetry) with Sue MacLeod
Form/Voice/Vision with Sheree Fitch
Pitching Information with Patricia Parsons
Romancing the Plot with Deborah Hale
