Workshop reminder!

Oct 10, 2024 | by Elee Kraljii Gardiner

Hello writers,

This is a reminder to register for Creating A Social Media Foundation for a Career as a Writer taking place this Saturday Oct 12, 12pm-1:30pm PST. Built with the VMI community in mind, this 90 minute workshop will help you figure out the best ways to represent yourself and your work online.

Although writing can be a solitary activity, putting your stories out into the world is a courageous act of engagement and community building.

This workshop will explore the various strategies, outlets, and pathways a creative writer can take to effectively build and maintain a platform that will provide a foundation for success.

@patricklucaswriter is a storyteller, writer and filmmaker from Vancouver Island. Throughout his life he has used writing and storytelling to explore and understand the world around him. Through his writing Patrick explores themes of conscientious travel, community, culture, sacred places, and personal revelation to gain a greater understanding of how we create a sense of place and belonging. He has been extensively published as a travel writer, social commentator, feature writer for numerous magazines, blogs and anthologies. Patrick is also a successful public speaker and storyteller with appearances at numerous festivals and conferences including the Flame Storytelling series, World Storytelling Day, Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon, the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, and the Vancouver International Fringe Festival. Patrick has been featured in, as well as co-written, produced and advised as a story consultant on numerous film and television productions. His most recent projects include an episode of Anthill Film’s award-winning documentary series Return to Earth on Outside TV, a short film, Allies, released on Redbull TV’s global broadcast of the Crankworx Mountain Bike Festival, and most recently, a feature documentary: Dirt Relations – the story of the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program released as an Official Selection of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival which is now touring around the world.

Register now on the VMI site! We’d love to see you, VMI alumni and friends!

And keep in mind this upcoming workshop with mentor Mark Winston:

Finding Your Footing: First Steps into Memoir

November 23, 2024, 9:30am – 4:00pm PST, online (Zoom), $150

This one-day online workshop is designed for those in the early stages of memoir writing who want to work on developing style and voice.The workshop will explore conveying deeper reflections into your writing, engaging your audiences through story and personal anecdote.Perhaps you have an idea that has been clamouring to be told but you are unsure where to begin? Perhaps you have begun writing and are partway through a memoir but have questions about what to include and what to leave out? This interactive and participatory workshop uses writing exercises and group feedback to provide a supportive space for discussion, drafting, and revising to get you on your way.Participants are asked to arrive with an idea they are ready to explore. We’ll begin by discussing tactics and strategies that make for strong memoir writing. Then, you will draft a short piece and receive feedback from the group and the workshop leader. After a lunch break, you’ll write a longer piece based in a story you hope to include in your memoir, followed by another feedback session. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of practical next steps towards completing and submitting your memoir, whether as a short newspaper/magazine piece to an editor, or a book-length manuscript submitted to agents or publishers.This workshop is open to writers with all levels of experience, from beginners to those who have written extensively in other genres.Mark L. Winston is the recipient of the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction for his best-selling book Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive, and an Independent Publishers 2019 Gold Medal IPPY Award for his book Listening to the Bees, co-authored with poet Renee Saklikar. His work has appeared in seven books, commentary columns for the Vancouver Sun, The New York Times, The Sciences, Orion magazine, and many other outlets. As an award-winning writer and editor, Mark works with community writers to develop proposals and edit manuscripts for non-fiction writing, from newspaper opinion pieces to books. He was a founding faculty member in the Banff Centre Science Communication Program, developed and taught in Simon Fraser University’s Nonfiction for the Weekend Student course, and was the SFU Library’s inaugural Writer in Residence for Nonfiction 2020-2021. winstonhive.com

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