{"id":916,"date":"2011-02-09T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=916"},"modified":"2011-02-09T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:10:46","slug":"916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2011\/916\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Writing Announces 2011 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

School Features Acclaimed Writers <\/em><\/strong>Endicott, Rudy-Froese, Kostash, and Klassen<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The School of Writing at CMU welcomes acclaimed writers to its 2011 program being held May 9 \u2013 13 at CMU\u2019s Shaftesbury campus. Presenting this year\u2019s writing workshops are Marina Endicott, teaching a course on fiction writing, Allan Rudy-Froese, leading a new course on writing sermons, Myrna Kostash, instructing a course on creative non-fiction writing, and Joanne Klassen, again leading her popular life writing course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe are very excited to offer our participants such high quality instruction from these very talented writers,\u201d says Sue Sorensen, Director of the School and Associate Professor of English at CMU. \u201cThere is something about the shape of the intensive five-day writing workshop that works particularly well. There\u2019s time to do some real work on manuscripts, and time to get to know fellow writers. And because our instructors are seasoned professionals, students benefit from hearing their stories of failure and achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0The beautiful campus of Canadian Mennonite University, located at the edge of the Assiniboine Forest in Winnipeg provides an inspiring setting for writers. Small classes allow students a substantial amount of time with experienced writing instructors as well as interactions with peers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One of the big advantages of attending the School is that it allows participants to connect with people who share a love of writing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cHaving such a small group was awesome,\u201d says Rachel Barber, a former student at the School, \u201cas we all got to know each other very well. Those friendships lasted well beyond The School of Writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Brian Hay, a participant in the 2010 Life Writing class, particularly appreciated the opportunity to build a network with people of similar interest and motivation. \u201cThe School of Writing helped me big time in terms of meeting other amateur writers and forming a writers\u2019 group,\u201d comments Hay.<\/p>\n

2011 School of Writing Instructors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Fiction<\/strong> instructor for 2011 is Marina Endicott<\/strong>, a writer from Edmonton, Alberta, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and a finalist for the Giller Prize. She is the author of Good to a Fault<\/em> (2008) and Open Arms<\/em> (2001), and has taught creative writing at the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n

Allan Rudy-Froese<\/strong>, a pastor from Kitchener, Ontario, will be teaching Writing Out Loud: The Art of the Sermon<\/strong>, a workshop on sermon writing for both lay and ordained preachers. He has been a preacher for over 25 years, and writes a regular column, \u201cThis Preacher has 22 Minutes,\u201d in the Canadian Mennonite<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Myrna Kostash<\/strong> of Edmonton, Alberta, one of Canada\u2019s most acclaimed writers, is instructing Creative Nonfiction<\/strong>. Kostash is the recipient of the 2010 Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of the Writing Life from the Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada, and author of Prodigal Daughter: Journey to Byzantium <\/em>(2010) and The Frog Lake Reader<\/em> (2009). She is also a founding member of the Creative Nonfiction Collective.<\/p>\n

Joanne Klassen<\/strong> will teach Life Writing<\/strong>, which will introduce students to a process called Transformative Writing<\/strong>. Students will be encouraged to develop their natural voices and increase their confidence in putting words on the page. Klassen is the founder and director of Winnipeg\u2019s Heartspace Writing School.\u00a0 (Joanne Klassen\u2019s Life Writing course is filled and a waiting list has been started.)<\/p>\n

The School of Writing at CMU is currently accepting applications. The application deadline is March 1. Tuition is $575, which includes five days of lunches, coffee breaks, and a Friday evening banquet.<\/p>\n

Visit www.cmu.ca\/schoolofwriting<\/em><\/a> <\/em>for more information and to download an application form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School Features Acclaimed Writers Endicott, Rudy-Froese, Kostash, and Klassen\u00a0 The School of Writing at CMU welcomes acclaimed writers to its 2011 program being held May 9 \u2013 13 at CMU\u2019s Shaftesbury campus. Presenting this year\u2019s writing workshops are Marina Endicott, teaching a course on fiction writing, Allan Rudy-Froese, leading a new course on writing sermons, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}