2 Toronto workshops in November!

I'm offering two writing workshops in November in Toronto. One is a new workshop inspired by the works of the great Joe Brainard; I did one-hour version of this in Ottawa last summer, and it was so successful that I have morphed it into a full-day extravaganza. The second workshop is a new version of my ever-popular Poetry Boot Camp.

Have a look:


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AFTER JOE BRAINARD
Saturday, November 10, 10 am – 5 pm (45-minute lunch break)
Christie/Dupont area
$90 includes materials and snacks
Spaces limited: register now by writing razovsky [at] gmail [dot] com

An all-day workshop, suitable for both the accomplished writer and the complete beginner, sparked by the literary works of the late and magnificent Joe Brainard, on the occasion of the release of his Collected Writings and the re-release of the legendary Bean Spasms collaboration between Joe, Ron Padgett, and Ted Berrigan. The workshop will be divided between exploring Joe’s works in writing, drawing, and collage, and writing new works inspired by Joe, both individually and collaboratively. While Brainard was known primarily as a visual artist, his writing is filled with invention and magic, and he was a friend and collaborator for two generations of New York poets.


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STUART ROSS’S POETRY BOOT CAMP
Sunday, November 25, 10 am – 5 pm (45-minute lunch break)
Christie/Dupont area
$90 includes materials and snacks
Spaces limited: register now by writing razovsky [at] gmail [dot] com

This relaxed but intensive workshop for beginning poets, experienced poets, stalled poets, and haikuists who want to get beyond three lines is a Toronto institution! Poetry Boot Camp focuses on the pleasures of poetry and the riches that spontaneity brings, through lively directed writing strategies. You will write in ways you’d never imagined. Even if you’ve taken the Boot Camp before, you’ll be introduced to new adventures in poetry. Arrive with an open mind, and leave with a heap of new poems!

Stuart Ross is a writer, editor, and writing coach who has been leading workshops for two decades. His most recent books include the acclaimed poetry collection You Exist. Details Follow. (Anvil Press 2012) and novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew (ECW Press, 2011). He has been shortlisted once for the Trillium Book Award and three times for the ReLit Prize; his story collection Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009) won him the coveted ReLit ring in 2010. Stuart was Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine for eight years, and is editor at Mansfield Press, where he has his own imprint. He runs the weekly poetry blog The Week Shall Inherit The Verse. Stuart lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

Over and out.