Victoria School of Writing Opens Summer SchoolRegistration]

["Pamela Banting" <pbanting@ucalgary.ca>]

Yours, BevIf you are interested in a creative writing workshop in Victoria, BC, Canada, this summer, read on. 

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From: Dr. Lynne Van Luven 
 
Dear Friends of VSW:

 

Registration is now open for our 13th annual intensive summer session, July 20 - 25, 2008. We're proud to introduce the seven accomplished Canadian authors who will lead our workshops this year: Steven Galloway, Sarah Leavitt, Curtis Gillespie, Rita Moir, Rosemary Neering, Kathy Page, and Susan Stenson. 

 

The session will be held, as before, on the park-like campus of St Margaret's school in Victoria. Attached is a pdf with complete details and registration form.

 

A first for us in our 13-year history is a workshop on the graphica genre. "Developing a Graphic Narrative" will be led by writer and illustrator Sarah Leavitt. Participants will do daily cartooning exercises and complete a short graphic narrative by the end of the course. Leavitt's drawings have been published in Modern Dog and Maisonneuve online and appear regularly in Geist. Her prose has been published in Geist, Vancouver Review, the Globe and Mail and a number of anthologies, and she writes a monthly column for Xtra West. Her thesis was the first graphic narrative in the history of UBC's Creative Writing MFA program.

 

Other workshops on offer are:

 

-        "Fiction and the Truth," with Steven Galloway who teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Galloway is the author of three novels, the most recent The Cellist of Sarajevo.

 

-        "Why Memoir?" with Edmonton's Curtis Gillespie, author of Crown Shyness and three other books. He has received The Danuta Gleed Award for fiction and three National Magazine Awards for non-fiction.

 

-        "Writing Deeply," creative non-fiction with Winlaw, BC, journalist, documentary writer, playwright, and author Rita Moir. Her books have won several awards including BC's Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize. Her most recent book is The Windshift Line: A Father and Daughter's Story.

 

-        "The Lovely Hybrid," a workshop on short fiction with Salt Spring Island's Kathy Page. The author of six novels, including The Story of My Face, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and Alphabet, which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award. Page teaches part-time at Malaspina University College.

 

-        "When the Shadows of the Heart Lift," a poetry workshop with Victoria's Susan Stenson, teacher and author of three books-the most recent My Mother Agrees with the Dead. Her work rides the buses throughout British Columbia as part of "Poetry in Transit."

 

-        "From Idea to Proposal to Manuscript to Book," with Victoria's Rosemary Neering, the author of more than forty non-fiction books for adults, teens, and children. Her most recent book, Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels won the VanCity book prize for 2002.

 

This summer's session, as others before it, is designed to help writers at all skill levels hone their craft and build a sense of community. Mornings are dedicated to workshops, afternoons to free writing time. After lunches and dinners, faculty will give personal talks and readings. Students will have a chance to try out new material at twice-daily open mics. Each student will also have a one-on-one consultation with his or her workshop leader.

 

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis, and each workshop is limited to twelve participants. The $635 fee for the week-long program includes tuition, an opening reception the evening of July 20th, five lunches, and a closing night barbecue. Entrants in the Victoria School of Writing Flash Fiction contest have the chance to win full or partial scholarships to the summer session. The contest deadline is May 31st. For contest guidelines, please visit us at http://vswblog.wordpress.com.

 

We'd love to welcome back those of you who've attended one or more of our sessions in the past or welcome those thinking of trying us for the first time. If you know someone else who might benefit from attending, please pass this message along. And if you'd like to volunteer to help out at this year's session, send us a note: coord@victoriaschoolofwriting.org.

 

 



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