CREATIVE NON-FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP 2024
When: This group runs for four sessions. It will be held at the Vancouver Recovery Club in May, and repeated in June at the Carnegie Centre:
Vancouver Recovery Club Spanish room (2775 Sophia St. V5T 3L1):
May 7, 9, 14 & 16 from 11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Carnegie Centre third floor classroom (401 Main St. V6A 2T7):
June 4 & 11 from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
June 6 & 13 from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Claire Matthews
Over the course of four workshops this writing mini-series will focus on creative non-fiction, from personal and hermit crab essays to memoir. Through meditative drawing, writing exercises and discussion, we’ll energize our writing practices and build confidence in putting words to the page. We’ll experiment with forms to see how they can shape and make our personal stories in diverse and divergent ways.
FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP 2024
When: Six sessions meeting on July 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, & 25 from 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Where: Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre meeting room (302 Columbia St., V6A 4J1)
Facilitator: Claire Matthews
Over the course of six workshops this writing mini-series will focus on the elements of fiction: setting, characterization, plot, point of view, theme, and conflict. Through meditative drawing, writing exercises and discussion, we’ll energize our writing practices and build confidence in putting words to the page. We’ll experiment with the various ways of making fiction from flash fiction and short stories to starting a novel and develop techniques to make our stories into being.
