Toronto Women's Bookstore

Creative License: A four-week writing workshop
with Anna Camilleri

TUESDAY evenings (and one WEDNESDAY) in MAY
MAY 7, 13, 20 and 27, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds). Enrollment limited to 15 participants.
Pre-registration and payment required. **Please call to register.
Partially wheelchair accessible. Limited sliding scale spots available.

Do you want to write but are having trouble breaking through the "noise"?

Creative License is a four-week workshop intensive that contextualizes writing as a sensory practice that calls upon writers to imagine, explore, intuit, and craft. The initial stage of writing-opening our selves and our imaginations-can be frustrating, terrifying, and lonely. Just the mention of the "first-draft" inspires a litany of Bs: blank, blocked, and bland.

Creative License is a workshop environment designed to encourage word/text exploration in a supportive group setting. The emphasis is on mining our imaginations, experimenting with voice and form, and generating new writings. Based in a series of facilitated writing exploratory exercises and group dialogue, this intensive is designed to offer participants tools for entering the writing realm with curiosity, and creative license.

Creative License is for writers, and for those who wish to write.

Instructor-Facilitator Bio:
Anna Camilleri has performed widely over the last fifteen years in Canada and the US, written two plays, contributed to several community arts projects as an artist-educator, curated numerous performance programs, and led workshops on various as aspects of cultural production. Camilleri is the author of critically acclaimed I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother and a Daughter, editor of Lambda Finalist Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts, co-editor of Lambda Finalist Brazen Femme:
Queering Femininity, and co-author of Boys Like Her: Transfictions. Her writing has been described as "potent, fresh, and imbued with powerful imagery" (Quill and Quire); "brave and necessary" (Books in Canada); and as "provocative and evocative" (Xtra). Anna is currently writing Compass, a novel. For more information go to: annacamilleri.com