Workshops
Personal Narrative
On Tuesday January 24, 2012 Personal Narrative I begins at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. The description is this:
1705 Personal Narrative I: Inventing Your Truth
Rilke said, “There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.” Writing out of your own life and memory can help you find your voice as a writer and learn to trust where it takes you. It can help you write about things that keep you from writing and discover what it is you want to say. A story is “all in the details”; learn to focus on the sensory details of your life experience and memories and how to shape them into a narrative form, whether it be a story, personal essay, novel, memoir, or series of poems.
If you know someone you think might want the structure and support of ten weekly meetings with a group of writers and me, please send this on. If it piques your interest, have a look here. http://Creative Writing Courses
No writing experience necessary. The only requirement, aside from course fee, is the desire to write. Previous participants welcome.
Tuesdays 7-9pm.
Jan 24-March 27, 2012
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Panic-Free Poetry for Classrooms
These workshops are designed to take the anxiety out of poetry for teachers and students. Students will write poems that reflect their own language, experience and concerns. Funding may be available through the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers Union of Canada.
For information and to book: http://www.poets.ca
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Writing your Way Out of A Paper Bag
Is there a recurring frustration or a block that keeps throwing itself at you? This three-hour intensive workshop is for people who have come up against a block, either personally, professionally or as writers. It includes a talk about blocks, frustrations, and the tactics we use to avoid/deal with situations. Let some air into those stuck places through a variety of in-class writing exercises, and open the door to new directions.To request details on booking this workshop for a group setting, please contact: ronnabloom [at] gmail.com
The Job Of An Apple
The job of an apple is to be hard, to be
soft, to be crisp, to be red,
yellow and green. The job of an apple
is to be pie, to be given to the teacher,
to be rotten.
The job of an apple is to be bad
and good, to be peeled, cored, cut,
bitten and bruised. The job of an apple
is to pose for painters, roll behind
fridges, behind grocery aisles,
to be hidden, wrapped in paper, stored for months,
brought out in the dry heat of India and eaten like a treasure.
The job of an apple is to be handed over in orchards, to be wanted and forbidden.
The job of an apple is to be Golden
Delicious, Granny Smith and crab.
The job of an apple is to be imported,
banned and confiscated going through customs
from Montreal to New York.
The job of an apple is to be round. Grow.
Drop. Go black in the middle when cut.
To be thrown at politicians. To be carried around
for days, to change hands, to change hands,
to change hands. The job of an apple is
to be a different poem in the mouth of every eater.
The job of an apple is to be juice.© Ronna Bloom Fear of The Ride Carleton University Press, 1996