Writescape

• • Saturday, September 25, 2010
• • 10 am to 4 pm
• • Location: The Dubliner, Dundas St., Whitby
• • Fee: $95 ($85 Discounted for WCDR/WEN/HWEN etc.)
• • Maximum participants 15

Writers and poets know that detail rooted in the senses helps readers experience rather than observe the narrative world they are reading.

In this workshop explore beyond those five senses. Deepen your powers of description. Challenge your reader’s perceptions and assumptions. Learn new descriptive techniques that will give greater weight to your narrative voice.

Experiment with your new skills in fun hands-on exercises. Come prepared to go new places and try new things. As past participants have said, “You provoked me into thinking of new ways of approaching my writing,” and “Your exercises were great—inspiring, short, but effective. You let us try lots of different things.”

Gwynn Scheltema is an award-winning fiction writer and poet and winner of the 2007 Timothy Findley Creative Writing Award. Her stories have placed in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, the Canadian Authors Association contest, and the Writers Circle of Durham Region short story contest. She was a founding fiction editor for Lichen, Arts & Letters Preview, and her fiction and poetry have been published in Canada and Europe in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines.

Gwynn is fascinated by words and enjoys sharing her love of language. She works as a professional writer and editor and has taught for over 25 years, at community colleges, private colleges, government conferences, retreats and day and evening workshops.

$95.00 Registration Fee
$85.00 Discounted Registration for Members of WCDR/WEN/HWEN etc.