IN PERSON The Messy First Draft
12 weeks | Mondays | Begins January 20, 2025 | 10am-12pm
Facilitator: Robin van Eck
MEMBER PRICE: $450.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $600.00
Without a messy first draft, you will never get to a little bit better second draft, or a moderately ok third draft, or the it's almost ready fourth draft. In this 12-week class we will write, we will challenge one another, we'll look at what stalls us and what keeps us going, we'll work on unveiling the writing process that works for you, all while writing and plotting and pantsing our way to that messy first draft.
This workshop takes place in person at the Alexandra Writers Centre Society.
Robin van Eck writes fiction - literary, contemporary, horror, weird and offbeat - and creative nonfiction. Most recently her work has appeared in WonderShift - 40th Anniversary Anthology of the Alexandra Writers Centre, Forbidden Fruit from The Seventh Terrace and Very Much Alive, stories of resilience from The Selkie UK. Her work has also appeared in, LampLight Magazine, Woven Tales Press, Waiting Anthology (UofA Press, 2018), FreeFall Magazine, Freshwater Pearls Anthology (Recliner Books, 2011), Prairie Journal, Crack the Spine, Maudlin House, Minerva Rising, Alberta Views and various other online and print publications both in Canada and internationally.
Her first novel, Rough, was released in November 2020, with Stonehouse Publishing and she is into the final draft of her second novel. Robin lives in Calgary with her daughter and acts as the emotional support human for her very anxious dog.
Robin is repped by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory
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