Find Saskatchewan Writers

Workshops Offered

COWPOKES and CHORUSES

Group Size: 3-20
Ages:
Here's a creative writing experience for those wishing to try their hand at cowboy poetry. This workshop offers insight into the steps concerned with creating an original cowboy poem. You will be guided through selecting a topic, choosing a rhythm pattern, designing the first verse, roughing out the main body and pulling it all together with a remarkable last verse. We will also discuss the oral presentation of cowboy poetry and its importance as it pertains to the preservation of history.

KIDS CAN WRITE TOO!

Group Size: 3-20
Ages:
Here's a creative writing experience for youth ages 8-16. Through individual and group exercises have fun exploring the many different ways to express oneself through the written word. With the use of your five senses you will be guided through simple steps on how to create written images. We will discuss getting the ideas down on paper, working from a beginning to an end and the process of editing. And for a final treat, (and yes there will be treats) we will indulge in a time of shared reading

Poem Shaping

Group Size: 3-25
Ages:
From the raw beginnings of a poem discover the individual direction of allowing your work to find it's own polished end. Through exercises devised to allow shape and form to your work, you will discover the art of following your poem rather than forcing it.

Workshop Name WRITING IS FOR THE BIRDS ( Anyone Can Fly)

Group Size: 3-20
Ages:
Description Here's a creative experience for those who feel the need to write but don't know where to start. Through individual and group exercises we will explore getting your ideas onto the page by starting at the beginning, travelling through the editing process and reaching the end. We will also investigate various writing genres, overcoming writer's block and getting published. And to sum it up we will look at the key points to a successful writing group.

Publications

Lullaby Lilly

Your Nickel's Worth, 2017,

Bone Sense

Thistledown Press, 2012,

Periodicals

Rural Roots

Category: Newspaper/Magazine/Trade Journal

Saddlebag Dispatches

Category: Literary Journal

The New Quarterly

Category: Literary Journal

The Society

Category: Literary Journal

Transition

Category: Literary Journal

Broadcast Works

CBC Radio, Kelley-Jo Burke, 2007-2010

Healing Hearts (suite of poems) Maybe if I Hold These Words (suite of poems)

Writing Groups

• Sans Nom Poetry Group

Genres

Fiction

• Children's Literature—Picture Books

Poetry

• Cowboy
• General

Services

Editing

• Developmental/Project Editing
• Manuscript Critiquing (Not Editing)
• Proofreading

Genre Writing

• Children’s Writing
• Poetry

Lecturing/Public Speaking

• Special Events