Join Ace Baker in this interactive workshop to find ways of bringing more impact to your fiction. From idea generation through ways to flesh out story ideas and integrate techniques that get attention, this workshop will provide you with a Bowen Island path to publication. There will be plenty of opportunities to test out techniques you may never have heard of before, and Bowen Island is the perfect setting for that! Using pen on paper or fingers on the keyboard, enjoy the opportunity to test out these techniques with your new or existing writing and share your experiments with others if you so choose. Learn about LLS, ++-, integrating sound and poetry into your prose, and much, much more to catch the eyes of contest judges, editors, agents, and publishers.

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Ace Baker is a writer, poet, and writing coach from Vancouver. His short story, "Victory Girl," won the Storyteller Award, and his poetry has won the SIWC, PNWA, and Magpie awards, among others. Both his prose and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards. He has taught creative writing for more than 20 years and has seen hundreds of those he works with publish poetry, flash fiction, short stories, personal essays, memoirs, and novels (including award-winners). A collection of his short stories, How to Make a Killing Jar, is now available.

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Ace is facilitating the workshop, From Idea to Impact: The fiction writer's toolkit, on Saturday morning September 14, at 10 am.