What is creativity? Where does your imagination come from? How does writing work?

In this workshop you will have an opportunity to get your hands dirty. You will work through a series of exercises designed to remind your body and your mind how to play. You will draw and doodle (play!) your way toward story. Mess around! Stop thinking and start doing! Let’s see to which story YOUR hands take you! 

I work with imagery exercises (drawing, collage, and painting) and word-based exercises (intense, timed, writing exercises, some free writes and some directed). All of these exercises are designed to generate new material. I will get you working in groups to develop your skills with dialogue and character, have you collaborating on very short pieces that will develop your skills in showing not telling, and even have you act out your scenes to help you visualize the space you are creating with your words (setting). Some of this new work will be read aloud in class (fun!). The impetus behind the workshop is to get participants actively doing. I believe that writing happens when you writenot when you think about writing. All of the exercises are contained (form) and freedom-giving (formless). Let us see what happens between the ideas of form and formlessness. These exercises will challenge you but are also meant to be enjoyable. We will laugh!

We will cover a lot of ground in this full-day workshop and it’ll be energizing and surprising. All levels welcome.

Thunder Bay:

Saturday, September 29, 2018

10:00 am to 3:00 pm 

(includes one hour lunch break)

Waverly Resource Library, 285 Red River Road

  

Dryden:

Sunday, September 30, 2018

10:00 am to 3:00 pm 

(includes one hour lunch break)

Dryden Public Library, 36 Van Horne Ave.

Fee: $10 for NOWW members, $40 for nonmembers. 

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 Making Stories by Hand : Workshop Tickets

by Aug. 15, 2018

 KATHRYN WALSH KUITENBROUWER is the bestselling author of the novel All the Broken Things, which was nominated for Canada Reads and the Toronto Book Award. She is also the author of the novels Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner, the latter of which was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her short-story collection Way Up won a Danuta Gleed Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Kuitenbrouwer's recent short fiction has been published in Granta, The Walrus, Maclean’s, Joyland, 7X7 LA, and Storyville, where it won the Sidney Prize (US). She is an award-winning instructor with the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, Associate Faculty with the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA, and a PhD Candidate in the English Department at the University of Toronto, where she works on creativity, language, and enchantment. For more information and to read some of her online work go to www.kathrynkuitenbrouwer.com