January 7th-21st
FINDING YOUR VOICE IN WRITING
Instructor: Crysse Morrison
This is a course for all writers, including beginners and those with work in progress, with a focus on discovering and developing personal style, and on writing from both imagination and experience. Creative stimulus is all around us, in our personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, as well as in the stunning location of Los Parronales. We will use a range of exercises, from light-hearted to lyrical, from ancient memory to sheer invention, all of which show how to develop ideas into descriptions, character studies, dialogues and stories. You will become more flexible at shifting away from self-critical "blocks" and at accessing the intuitive creative "right side of the brain." When you return home, you'll take a portfolio reflecting an amazing journey: finished pieces, ideas for development, and new confidence in your own unique "writer's voice."
January 28th-February 11th
FOLLOW YOUR MUSE TO CHILE
Instructor: Sylvia Adams
Make a date with your Muse, woo it with passion and skill, and write poems that come from the heart. Open your mind, set aside your misgivings about poetry’s constraints, and stare down the white page with confidence. This workshop welcomes all levels of accomplishment from beginner to advanced. We will examine many styles of poetry – formal, traditional, contemporary, Oriental. Exercises that shake unexpected gems will yield new angles and fresh ideas based on your lifetime of singular lessons and experiences. Your own distinctive voice will emerge. We will read and discuss some of the finest 20th century poets. Our surroundings will add their own charm and inspiration as we coax the Muse to bloom. You will share the fellowship of like-minded souls and return home with finished poems, poems to work on, and a Muse that is brimming with enthusiasm.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
CRYSSE MORRISON - Hailed by The Times as a "superb storyteller" for her debut novel Frozen Summer (Hodder & Stoughton 2000) which was followed next year by Sleeping in Sand, Crysse also writes short stories which have been published and broadcast. She is a regular columnist in Writing magazine and also writes travel articles. As Spoken Word Coordinator for the Merlin Theatre of Frome, Crysse organises live literature events and performs her poetry in venues throughout the southwest of England. Crysse has been leading workshops and residential courses in the UK and abroad for over 10 years and offers individual mentoring from her website: www.cryssemorrison.co.uk.
SYLVIA ADAMS's poems and stories have been widely published in North America. In 2005 she won the Arc magazine-sponsored Diana Brebner Award and was short-listed for the Malahat Review Long Poem Award. She has been an instructor/facilitator of Ottawa writers’ groups, the Field Stone Poets and Pachyderm Poets, and has edited and published their chapbook anthologies. She is the author of the novel This Weather of Hangmen and of Mondrian’s Elephant, which won the 1998 Cranberry Tree Press national poetry chapbook contest. Some of her poetry has been translated into Spanish. Her poetry collection, Sleeping on the Moon, will be published in October 2006 by Hagios Press of Regina, Saskatchewan.
SESSION FEES:
Rates range from Cdn$100-120/£65-75 per day and include full board and workshop, airport pickup and drop-off, meals, and more.
Please contact Los Parronales co-ordinator Susan Siddeley for more details, information package, and registration forms.
E-mail: motocad@rogers.com or fuego@unete.cl
Phone: 1 416 968 0769 (Canada) or 56 2 207 3534 (Chile-office)
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