Writing Together in 2022

No matter where you are in the world
there's a time and place to write together

From January to May you can find places and times to join Write Your Way In Workshops.
Of course, online workshops continue. They continue because they have been a true gift. Zoom workshops will be a staple long into the future.
But we're also back in person at St. Paul's Centre in Orillia, ON for full-day workshops, and in May, at The Church of Truth in Victoria, BC.

Dates & Places

The Yellow Room

at The Church of Truth

The Parlour
at St. Paul's Centre

Let's fill these seats with our living breathing bodies.
All you need is your pen and notebook or laptop and a little willingness.
Meet you there!

My Big News
In 2014, I completed writing my novel, What the Living Do, a feat owed in great measure to Writers' Sanctuaries and the mentorship of Susan Lynn Reynolds. You can read about her rich offerings here.
I whipped out dozens of queries and soon had a US agent. After a year, that agent was unable to sell it. Out it went again. And again.
Until, one day...
Regal House Publishing acquired it! My debut novel will be released in the spring of 2024.
You can check me out as a "Regal House Author" right here.
I just have to peel myself off the ceiling and get to work telling everyone and their second cousin twice removed.

"My Writers"

I sometimes have to catch myself when referring to the remarkable writers who show up to my workshops, to not call them, "my writers." The thing is, I'm so damn proud and grateful to be able to listen to their freshly generated work and jump at least as high as they might when there's a success or a newsy thing that happens to them in the literary world.
Here are a few I encourage you to check out.

Barbara Krasner has an offer on the table for a YA novel in verse about the two Newark teens -- one Jewish and one German-American -- whose friendship unravels when a Nazi youth camp in rural New Jersey opens in July 1938.
Barbara is offering a four-week series on writing family history. Find the details here:
https://thewholemegillah.wordpress.com/writing-chai-studio/

Fiona Raye Clarke curated the Digital Companion for New Monuments, a dance film aired on CBC Gem, with Luminato and Canadian Stage that explored Canada's history of colonialism.
https://luminatofestival.com/event/new-monuments/

For TIFA Fiona interviewed Ian Williams and Kei Miller as well as Mateo Askaripour and Natasha Brown: https://festivalofauthors.ca/book-author/fiona-raye-clarke/

3600 copies of a paperback version of Kari Jones' book, A Fair Deal: Shopping for Social Justice, had a big adventure. See the footage here:
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/mobile/more-clean-up-crews-hired-as-lost-shipping-containers-rupture-on-b-c-beaches-1.5654458 Part of Orca Book Publisher's Footprints series, the book aimed at middle-grade readers, explores the problems with current trade systems, examines ways to make trade more equitable and how kids can be involved.

Kelsey Andrews' debut collection of poetry, Big Sky Falling, has just been released. https://www.kelseyandrews.ca/book
On January 7, Kelsey is Planet Earth Reading Series' feature poet. http://planetearthpoetry.com/new-events/2022/1/7/kelsey-andrews-featured-reader-kyeren-regehr-poetic-opener

And last but most certainly not least...
You can find Somatofaun, a poem by Julian Gunn, in Prism's 59.4 Summer issue. https://prism-epayments.sites.olt.ubc.ca/ubc-product/59-4-summer-2021/

No matter where you are in the world there's a time and place to write together

The Yellow Room

at The Church of Truth

No matter where you are in the world
there's a time and place to write together