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Write on Bowen Event Descriptions
Download the 2010 Write on Bowen Festival Schedule!
Evening Events
Opening Night
Time: Friday, July 2, the Gallery @ Artisan Square at 7:30 pm
Admission: $15.00 or included with Full Festival Pass
Join renowned writer and storyteller Ivan E. Coyote for an evening that is sure to knock your literary sox off! Called a "natural-born storyteller" by the Globe and Mail, Ivan believes in the transformative power of storytelling, and that collecting and remembering oral history not only preserves a vital part of our families and where we come from, but that a good story can help inspire us to reinvent a better future. "Coyote is to CanLit what k.d. lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture." -Ottawa X Press.
Gala at the Gallery
Time: Saturday, July 3, The Gallery @ Artisan Square at 7:30
Admission: $15.00 or included with Full Festival Pass
Meet and mingle with Bowen's writers and readers at a fun evening of entertainment and refreshments at The Gallery @ Artisan Square. Authors will sign their books, poets, storytellers, and songwriters will perform, and lots of books will be available to browse and purchase. Featured performers: Wong Wing-Siu, Lorne Warr, Susanna Braund, and Jude Neale.
Wong Wing-Siu uses a mix of personal and family stories intertwined with folktales to dazzle you with the power of the oral storytelling tradition. He will have you falling off your seat laughing one minute and at the edge of your seat ready to cry at the next.
Lorne Warr, performer, songwriter, and winner of the Bowen Island Song award, will perform a selection of his own songs.
Jude Neale, author of a new collection of poems entitled Only the Fallen Can See (Leaf Press) will read from her new work.
Susanna Braund wowed Festival goers last year with her Myth Made Modern presentation. She's back to share an ancient myth with a modern poem on that myth.
Friday Session
Inspiring Tour of Lieben led by Bernice Lever
Location: Lieben Lands on Bowen Island
Time: Friday, July 2 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Admission: Free
Bring paper and pen, camera and water bottle for a creative few minutes or all afternoon. On Scarborough Road, this historic ocean front, evergreen setting is where Earle Birney, Margaret Laurence, Malcolm Lowry and many more composed their treasures during Bowen retreats. Also see www.colourofwords.com.
Saturday Sessions
Opening Session
Time: Saturday, July 3, the Gallery @ Artisan Square from 9:00 to 9:45 am
Admission: Included with Full Festival Pass or Saturday Festival Pass
A life of self-inflicted world-wide adventures has given Anthony Dalton enough ideas for magazine articles and books to keep him busy for another few decades - or another lifetime. Sometimes the idea is in the adventure but, quite often the adventure is in the idea. Could a diamond be worth an article? Does an old steam train qualify for a saleable article idea? How about something on a baboon's favourite delicacy? Anthony Dalton's lively anecdotes about his interests will inspire you to look around your own life and discover that ideas are everywhere just waiting for a writer to come along and use them.
Saturday Morning Sessions
Workshop 1: Building Better Stories: Secrets to Sensational Articles
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 10:00 to Noon
Location: Montessori School in Artisan Square
Presenter: Sylvia Taylor
Over 80% of published words in the world are non-fiction and many of them are in the form of articles. The opportunities are endless! Learn how your unique voice and attention-grabber techniques can create clean, focused writing that entertains, informs, inspires, and gets you published!
Workshop 2: Seven Tips for Publishing
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 10:00 to Noon
Location: Yoga Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: Susan Safyan
An editor for a Vancouver-based book publisher who receives and evaluates more than 350 unsolicited manuscript proposals each year, offers insight, information, and inspiration on the process of choosing potential publishers and putting together effective book proposals that will be read and considered. Participants should come prepared to begin work on crafting a proposal.
CANCELLED - Workshop 3: Pandora Collective: Chipping Away at Writer's Block
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 10:00 to Noon
Location: Dance Studio in Artisan Square
Presenters: Pandora Collective: Bonnie Nish, Warren Dean Fulton, Shannon Rayne, and Marni Norwich
Writers' block can be something real and solid, something which may prevent words from getting out. Those words, stories, poems, trapped inside, imprisoned, locked up longing to be freed. This hands-on workshop will help liberate, release the words, through a variety of approaches and techniques. We will provide you with some of the tools we ourselves have used to chip away at our own writers' block and bring our creativity out into the light.
Panel Presentation 1: Mining Memory When Writing Kids' Books
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 10:00 to Noon
Location: Gallery @ Artisan Square
Panelists: Ainslie Manson, Cynthia Nicolson, Sally Fitz-Gibbon, Norma Charles
Join published children's authors to learn how to transform your own life experiences into picture books, chapter books or novels for young people. Panelists discuss how to build on an actual event, a setting, or a character you have known and then provide plenty of time for questions and group discussion.
Saturday Lunch Session
Time: Saturday, July 3, the Gallery @ Artisan Square from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Admission: Included with Full Festival Pass or Saturday Festival Pass
Publishers' Panel: Learn about the publishing business from the inside out! Panelists include Susan Safyan, an in-house editor at Arsenal Pulp Press, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, the founder of Otter Press, Michael Katz from Tradewind Books, and Julie Ferguson, the owner of Beacon Literary Services.
Saturday Afternoon Sessions
Workshop 4: Writing Adventure Travel Articles and Books
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: The Gallery in Artisan Square
Presenter: Anthony Dalton
With hundreds of illustrated magazine and newspaper articles published in 20 countries and half as many languages, plus six non-fiction books and two collaborations, Anthony Dalton is well qualified to guide writers through the wonderful world of writing about travel and adventure. He has visited well in excess of 100 countries and written about subjects as diverse as Mozart's hometown and tracking man-eating tigers in Bangladesh. He will teach you how to find subjects for travel articles close to home and on the far side of the planet.
Workshop 5: Writing Historical Fiction
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Yoga Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: kc dyer
Learn how to write historical fiction from the award-wining author of Seeds of Time, Secret of Light, Shades of Red, Ms Zephyr's Notebook, and A Walk Through the Window.
Workshop 6: Book Magic: Turning Writers into Published Authors
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Dance Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: Julie Ferguson
Indispensable for every writer who dreams of publication, Book Magic provides a look at how the publishing industry works and the magic bullets you need to be successful. Join Julie and weave some spells to boost your chances of getting commercially or self-published, in print or electronically. See also www.beaconlit.com/BookMagic.htm.
Workshop 7: Writing the Chapter Book
Time: Saturday, July 3 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Montessori Preschool in Artisan Square
Presenter: Michael Katz
What is a chapter book exactly? Why is this genre of children's literature growing by leaps and bounds? Using visual presentation and text Michael Katz, the publisher of Tradewind Books, will show what writers should be doing to get their work published. Time will be left at the end of the session for author pitches. Bring your ideas!
Sunday Sessions
Sunday Morning Sessions
Workshop 8: Silencing the Inner Critic: Filling the Page
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 9:30 to 11:30
Location: Montessori Preschool in Artisan Square
Presenter: Elee Kraljii Gardiner
What prevents you from writing as much as you would like, in the way that you would like? In this interactive two-hour workshop for all levels and genres, we'll look at common blocks in writing such as fear, insecurity and concern about reaction or "ownership" of stories. Armed with several writing exercises to loosen apprehension and get the pen moving, we'll identify your Inner Critic's personal Kryptonite. Come prepared to write, laugh and discuss tactics for generating new work. Participants will receive handouts of strategies and prompts to take home.
CANCELLED - Workshop 9: Making Your Blog More Popular
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 9:30 to 11:30
Location: Yoga Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: Do have a blog or website that nobody reads? In this workshop, you'll learn how to increase the traffic to your personal or business blog. Topics covered: linking strategies, search engine optimization, blog networks, Google Analytics, and social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Workshop 10: Poetry Workshop - An Introduction
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 9:30 to 11:30
Location: Dance Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: Miranda Pearson
This workshop is intended for writers at various levels of skill and experience in the art and craft of writing contemporary poetry. Participants may bring their poems to the workshop, and there will be opportunity to discuss and critique each other's work in a constructive, supportive and facilitated manner, with particular focus on the poem's language, musicality and form, as well as the theme/content of the poem. In addition, we will consider the particular poetics and influences that may be underpinning an individual's writing.
Workshop 11: Writing Narrative-Based Non Fiction
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 9:30 to 11:30
Location: The Gallery @ Artisan Square
Presenter: Daniel Wood
Good writing comes AT you. It leaves the page in a hurry. The trick for the non-fiction writer is to weave real situations and real data into an order that both involves and informs the reader. This practical course explores in detail how modern non-fiction techniques-used in memoirs, magazine articles, books, travel stories, and histories-rely on narrative story-telling. The course, full of examples and observations from one of Canada's leading non-fiction writers, answers three basic questions: how do I pitch project ideas; how do I get published; and how do I make money in writing?
Sunday Lunch Session
Time: Sunday, July 4, the Gallery @ Artisan Square from 12:30 to 1:30 pm
Admission: Included with Full Festival Pass or Sunday Festival Pass
Location: The Gallery @ Artisan Square
Presenter: David Stephens
You've written a great manuscript, but that's just the start. Now you have to craft a query letter, a one page synopsis and possibly a chapter outline. R. David Stephens, Senior Editor of Tradewind Books and UBC and SFU instructor talks about what to include and what to avoid in your submission to publishers and agents so that you can improve your chances of Getting Published.
Sunday Afternoon Sessions
Workshop 12: Memoir Writing
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 1:45 to 3:45
Location: Yoga Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: Jacquie Massey and Susanne Martin
Learn how to write narratives that keep your family stories alive. You will explore different styles of writing, discover an approach that works, and learn about the rich resources that are available to enhance your writing skills. You'll also learn how to uncover the truth, provoke memories, select meaningful material and structure a memoir.
Workshop 13: Finding the Narrative Thread
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 1:45 to 3:45
Location: The Gallery @ in Artisan Square
Presenter: Richard Mackie
Historians are often faced with a problem of TMI -too much information. They soon accumulate an embarrassment of riches from interviews, archives, or museums. They cast a wide net only to snag a monster. This workshop will explore how to recognize the main themes in a unruly body of research and arrange them into a well-organized narrative.
Workshop 14: The Challenges of Writing Fantasy for the Adult and YA Market
Time: Sunday, July 4 from 1:45 to 3:45
Location: Dance Studio in Artisan Square
Presenter: Lorna Suzuki
From word count to taboo subjects and why writers should avoid following trends, to what separates YA from adult fantasies on the book shelf and the distinguishing line that seems to blur at times, this workshop explores the ins and outs of writing for two different audiences.
Blue Pencil Editing Sessions
Time: Saturday and Sunday, July 3 and 4, Artisan Square at various venues; times and locations to be assigned following registration.
Editors: TBA
Every great writer has a good editor, so Write on Bowen! is featuring Blue Pencil Editing sessions where aspiring authors and poets can have their work gently but professionally critiqued by experienced writers and editors.
Author Pitches
Time: Saturday and Sunday, July 3 and 4, Artisan Square at various venues; times and locations to be assigned following registration.
Publishers and Editors: TBA
Take your idea out for a spin by pitching it to a publisher or an editor who can provide you with valuable feedback-and maybe even ask for more!
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