Re: Victoria School of Writing Opens Summer School Registration

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

How very, very odd.  I didn't type "Yours Bev" at the beginning of that 
message or anywhere at all  --- especially as my name isn't Bev.

What a weird bit of internet flotsam.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pamela Banting" <pbanting@ucalgary.ca>
To: "ASLE" <asle@interversity.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: [asle] Victoria School of Writing Opens Summer SchoolRegistration]


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

----- Original Message ----- 
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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