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Ace Baker
From Idea to Impact: The fiction writer's toolkit
Anne Bokma
The 1,000-Word Memoir Writing Workshop
Bryan Mortensen
The Making of a Book: The path past first draft
JM Landels
Writer’s Block:Why there’s no such thing and how to get around it anyway
Mel Anastasiou
Writer's Block: Why there’s no such thing and how to get around it anyway
JJ Lee
Good to Bad: How to use self-deprecating humour, character flaw, and outsized personas to energize character voicing in nonfiction and personal narrative
Ian Cognitō
Collaborative Poetic Dialogues
Cara DiGirolamo
Curiosity Exploration and a Good Yarn: Storytelling Outside of Structure
Shannon Rayne
Writing Humour in Creative Nonfiction
David Cameron
Friday Night Event
Marcus Hondro
Jude Neale
Marysia McGilvray
Nick Jennings
Anita Adams
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Saturday Luncheon Presentation
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We acknowledge that we live, work, and create on Nexwlélexwm (the place now known as Bowen Island), part of the unceded, ancestral and living territories of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation).