Just a reminder to anyone interested in writing, refining, and submitting personal essays – I’m teaching a course called Our Stories: Personal Essays with Public Appeal at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre in Calgary on Thursday evenings (7:00 – 9:00) beginning on April 26th.
It’s an 8 week course that will help participants take an idea from being a reflection or snippet, to a piece of writing with much broader appeal. Classes are small, there is lots of time for questions and discussion, and you’ll meet new friends.
The course is geared to help new writers find a starting point and to inspire experienced writers to write their stories. In the class, we discuss how to connect with our readers, learn techniques that make our prose come alive and read and write various types of essays (and learn about their specific characteristics and purposes.) Writing is required and sharing is encouraged but not mandatory.
If you are interested, please go to www.alexandrawriters.org for information on how to register or, if you have any questions, leave me a message and I will contact you.
