Pearl Pirie to guest-speak at Carleton University's 2014 Creative Writing Camp

Carleton University Creative Writing Camps

Carleton University is pleased to announce its new summer creative writing camps for children and teens. These camps will give young writers a chance to explore their creativity with Ottawa writers and an Aboriginal storyteller over the course of one week. Campers will compose a poem, tell stories, pen a comic, and work on a videogame narrative. They will also have a chance to share their work with the group.

Learn more about our instructors and guest speakers: Pearl Pirie, Lauran Gagnon, Caroline Pignat, Chris Johnson and Andrew Connolly.

Camps will run in July and August:

• July 21-25 (Ages 8-12)
• July 28 - August 1 (Ages 13-16)
• August 11-15 (Ages 8-12)
• August 18-22 (Ages 13-16)

Registration is $250 and includes one lunch per day. Camp hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Registration form: http://www.library.carleton.ca/forms/create-writing-camp-2014-registration-form

The deadline to register is June 30, but space is limited, so register now.

For more details email creativecamp@library.carleton.ca

Carleton Creative Writing Camps are made possible by the Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library, Carleton University’s English Department, the Carleton University Discovery Centre, the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and the Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education.

Pearl Pirie: One Piece at a Time: Remixing your Poetic Source Material

Canadian Authors Association
April 8th, 7-9pm Main Branch Ottawa Public Library, open to members and non-members (non-members $10)

One Piece at a Time: Remixing your Poetic Source Material
Speaker: Pearl Pirie

Remix culture is presented as characteristic of our age but poetry's toolbox has long been taking pieces from here and there and synthesizing elements to new effect. Partly hands on, partly theory, this 90-minute workshop would explore examples and techniques of using disparate sources and collaborating to make new whole. Sampling, recutting, and using the material of distinct poems to make distinctly fresh ones.

Whether you are a fiction-writer by nature or poet, there's more to be gained by looking at tools for livening you out of risk of rut.

http://www.canauthors-ottawa.org/meetings.shtml