Do you love art? Do you love writing? Are you an emerging poet or fiction writer looking to draw inspiration from visual art? Or are you a visual artist interested in learning more about creative writing, in particular writing fiction or poetry?
This workshop is an introduction to poetry and fiction inspired by visual art and a space to explore creating your own poetic and fictional responses to art. You’ll get an overview of writers and poets who have been inspired by visual arts and the interwoven relationship between the two disciplines.
About the instructor: Shannon Webb-Campbell is of Mi’kmaq and settler heritage and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a member of Flat Bay First Nation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Her previous books include Lunar Tides, I Am a Body of Land, and Still No Word, which received Egale Canada’s Out in Print Award. Her forthcoming book, Re: Wild Her, is a form of Indigenous resurgence and pleasure through “poem spells” and offers a different prism with which to rewild ourselves. Shannon holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick in English-Creative Writing and is the editor of Visual Arts News Magazine and Muskrat Magazine.

Recommended experience level: New and emerging writers of poetry and/or fiction (About recommended experience levels)
Participant cap: 12
Location: Zoom
Dates of 4-week workshop: Wednesdays, Feb 26 + Mar 5 + Mar 12 + Mar 19, 2025 (7:00pm to 9:00pm Atlantic)
Registration for 2025 General Members: $169 (includes registration for the Creative Writing & Visual Art meet-up in Halifax on Mar 26)
Registration for non-members: $234 (includes 2025 General Membership in WFNS & registration for the Creative Writing & Visual Art meet-up in Halifax on Mar 26)