Something New from Playwright, Novelist, Educator and GG Winner Kent Stetson’s MasterPlayWorks. Writers ask if MasterPlayWorks’ Character Generated Plot in Drama and Prose Fiction on-line workshop can be presented in a condensed form. I like the idea. The 2010 summer course will run over four rather than eight weeks, one month rather than two. We’ll meet…
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MPW Spring 2010 Best Yet!
Howdy Friends of MasterPlayWorks and all things artistic! Porter Anderson, former theatre critic for The Village Voice and The New York Times, former CNN producer and anchor, is writing his first novel, American Kouros. Along with three other wonderful writers at different stages of their practice (two playwrights and a screenwriter), Porter is taking MasterPlayWorks’ Winter 2010 course in the Character Generated Plot…
2010 Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop
The 2010 Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop (June 29 – July 4) at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, offers mid-level writers a wonderful opportunity to develop their writing by working with some of Canada’s top writers in the areas of fiction, playwriting, poetry, or memoir. In addition this year the Great Blue Heron is offering…
Sage Hill Spring Poetry Colloquium and Summer Writing Experience
When: May 7-20, 2010 Facilitator: John Barton Guest Poet: Barbara Klar Application Deadline: February 15, 2010 Sage Hill offers an intensive two-week working and critiquing retreat for published poets seeking to develop their craft and tune a manuscript. The pastoral reflective setting is ideal for such work. The colloquium will include a ‘wired’ follow-up. Writers…
Muses of the Night: Dreams & Writing
If we take the time to learn their language, we discover that every dream is a masterpiece of symbolic communication. The unconscious speaks in symbols, not to confuse us, but simply because that is its native idiom. —Robert Johnson Muses of the Night: Dreams & Writing Dreams are natural muses for creative writing. They are made…
Canadian Mennonite University School of Writing
Creative Writers: join us at the School of Writing at CMU, now in its 4th year. From May 10-14, 2010, Margaret Sweatman (fiction), Barbara Nickel (poetry), Joanne Klassen (life writing), and Anita Daher (writing for children & young adults) will be offering courses in a supportive and challenging environment for writers of many skill and experience…
Two January Poetry Workshops
Poet and Teacher Beth E. Janzen will be offering two Saturday afternoon workshops in January. Details below. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We can never see the whole forest at one time, but the shifting light, the wild creatures, the intriguing paths, some barely visible among the foliage, lead us in, keep us wanting to go deeper into the heart of the…
Pen & Inkling Festival : Event Details
Pen & Inkling Festival The Prince Edward Island Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) turns twenty this year and are celebrating with the Pen & Inkling Festival on the weekend of September 18 – 20, 2009. This three-day, three-county event will celebrate Island writers through the Island Literary Awards ceremony, a conversation about poetry between John Smith and David…
MasterPlayWorks Now on Facebook
MasterPlayWorks now has its own Facebook page ( www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103761412129 ) where you can join our group discussions, receive information, and contribute your thoughts an any subject that strikes your fancy. The http://www.MasterPlayWorks.com website has detailed information on course content (Click on Workshops), FAQs (Click on FAQs), and endorsements http://www.masterplayworks.com/endorsements1.htm from previous MPW clients. Here’s a preview of what’s on tap for the fall, 2009:…
Piper’s Frith: Writing at Kilmory Resort
*To download the brochure application form, click on the following link: piper’s frith brochure
Master Play Works
Hi Folks, I had a terrific response to my lecture/workshop for the Edmonton Branch of the Canadian Author’s Association. About fifty Alberta writers attended the Friday night lecture on Adaptation: Importing Excellence. The following day I conducted an exhaustive full-day workshop, The Character Generated Plot in Drama and Prose Fiction. The response to both events…
Into the Sea: Taking Your Poetry Deeper
“What makes me feel as though I belong here, out in this world, is…what goes on in my mind when I am writing. Then I belong here, and then all of the things that are disparate and irreconcilable can be useful.” —Toni Morrison This course is for people who write poems. Whether you are a…
The Writing Pool 