IN PERSON Cut It Out
IN PERSON - Cut It Out
Fridays 12:30-2:00pm
Sept. 23 - Oct. 7
Instructor: Laura Swart
MEMBER PRICE $93.50 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $125.00
Writing isn’t about right and wrong. There are rules, certainly—but then there is instinct. There are landmarks. And the landmarks, like an inukshuk, will guide you through an often-barren landscape and invite you into a metanarrative of syntax and grammar and mechanics that is always evolving, always unfolding.
This course will be customized to meet your needs; you’ll learn how to write powerful sentences, concise sentences, sentences with beauty and rhythm and depth. You’ll cut out excesses—eliminating errors in the process—and create openings to delineate your weighty ideas. Then, in Paul Cezanne’s words, you will astonish Paris. Not with an apple—but with a sentence.
This class take place in person at the Alexandra Writers’ Centre in Calgary.
Laura Swart is a novelist, poet, and playwright. She has taught creative and critical writing to adults for over thirty years, encouraging students to find and raise their writing voices. Her humanitarian work around the world—most recently in Ethiopia and Ukraine—have shaped her thinking, her teaching, and her writing.