For CanWrite! 2019, Betsy Warland will offer a workshop on the role on inquiry and imagination in memoir.
Imagination and inquiry are essential aspects of writing a memoir as engrossing as a good novel.
Betsy Warland will offer a manuscript consultation workshop at the Federation of BC Writers’ Spring Writes Festival in May 2019.
As writers, we are now almost solely responsible for our manuscript going through an in-depth editing process regardless of whether a publishing house takes it or we self-publish.
Canadian Authors–Victoria organizes writing events in Victoria, BC. We are affiliated with the Metro Vancouver Branch and are part of the Canadian Authors Association, which encourages and inspires writers of all genres.
Betsy Warland is offering a one-day community workshop via The Writer’s Studio at SFU Continuing Studies. “Restarting the Stalled Story” will take place on Sunday, Feb 24, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Betsy Warland is offering a memoir writing course at SFU this November. “Memoir of Inquiry” runs on three Saturdays: Nov 3, 10, and 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This summer, Betsy offers “Making Your Writing Fly,” a self-editing workshop for prose and poetry, presented by Island Mountain Arts.
Effectively self-editing your work before you send it out to an editor, agent or publisher has become a must in today’s publishing environment.
Canadian Authors presents “Experimenting with the Potentials of Creative Non-Fiction,” a reading and talk by Betsy Warland, essayist, poet, and founder of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University.
West Coast Writers is pleased to announce our upcoming urban retreat: a day-long intensive with critically acclaimed poet and author, Betsy Warland.
Navigating contradictions, the unknown, or the forbidden in a group of poems or a lyric-prose narrative.
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is proud to welcome Elee Kraljii Gardiner to the roster of exceptional VMI mentors including Rachel Rose, Evelyn Lau, Jane Silcott, and more.
Gardiner will be editing poetry and creative nonfiction for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive.
Want to spend 5 days delving deep into your writing? Want to do that to the sound of waves crashing on the beach? Join Shaena Lambert on Cortes Island, BC, June 2-7, 2017. Read Shaena’s letter below, and register for the workshop here.
The workshop is currently full but we are accepting wait list requests. You will be notified if a space becomes available or if a new workshop is scheduled in the near future.
Five Tuesdays, 7–9 PM, April 5th— May 3rd
West End, Vancouver
Register: Contact us at betsywarland.com
Tuition: $290 + GST
Given that writing memoir is an arduous, often isolating experience, I am offering five evenings that will be part workshop, part instruction, part conversation, part Q & A.
NEW! VMI mentors and graduates will now be offering workshop and mini courses from time to time. Subscribe to the newsletter for notification.
Plot and Structure with Kathryn Para, MFA
Shortlisted: Ethel Wilson Fiction
Winner: Great BC Novel Contest
Date: November 7
Fee: $65.00
Location: Vancouver’s West End
Length: 4 hours.
