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Special Topics in Creative Writing

Tuesdays | May 2nd - June 6th | 1pm-2:30pm EST | Virtual

This course will invite participants to continue their creative writing journey and expand on concepts introduced in Braving the Elements: Creative Writing Essentials. In Braving the Elements 2, we will explore creative writing across various genres and forms, including poetry, fiction, stage plays, & screenwriting. Special topics will include creating figurative language, crafting poetic lines, writing memorable dialogue, writing comedically, and world-building through setting & character. Through exercises and examples, participants will be encouraged to deepen their writing practice, experiment with new forms, and be active participants in a creative community. 

The course is hosted in collaboration with Inkwell.

Facilitator:

David James Brock is a playwright, poet, and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada, the US, and the UK. He is the winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwriting Award for his play Wet. Brock is the author of two poetry collections, Everyone is CO2 & Ten-Headed Alien both released by Wolsak & Wynn. He has created text for opera and new music with companies that include Noise Opera, Tapestry New Opera, Young People’s Theatre, the Canadian Art Song Project, Write off The Keyboard, FAWN Chamber Creative, and the Paul Dresher Ensemble. For Scottish Opera, Brock co-created Breath Cycle with Gareth Williams, a multimedia operatic theatre project developed with cystic fibrosis patients, which was nominated for a 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. His most recent play, A Million Billion Pieces premiered at Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre in 2019 and was nominated for 5 Dora Mavor Moore Awards.