TUNE UP YOUR WRITING AT THE CONVERGENCE WRITERS' WEEKEND IN NEW DENVER
By Contributor
Looking for a spring tune-up for your writing?
A chance to improve your imaginative writing skills through working with mentors and peers will be provided at the second annual Convergence Writers’ Weekend at the Heart’s Rest Retreat Centre in New Denver, June 14-16.
Participants will also consider how to overcome the paralyzing despair that often accompanies the steady media diet of bad news about the environment. Key presenter and mentor for the Convergence Weekend is best-selling nonfiction writer Alanna Mitchell, author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis.
Convergence Weekend participants will also work with local authors Almeda Glenn Miller, Verna Relkoff and Tom Wayman, who will serve as workshop conveners.
The workshops will consider writing by participants on any theme, but the focus of the Weekend’s discussions will be on “Writing a New World”: overcoming despair in order to imagine a better world.
New Denver author Sean Arthur Joyce will speak on exploring the injustices of the past as a route to a re-imagined future.
Registration is now open for the Weekend, which is limited to 25 participants. Cost is $350, which includes presentations, workshops, one-on-one sessions with Alanna Mitchell, plus all meals from dinner June 14 to lunch June 16. A number of scholarships are available for youth between 15 and 30 years of age.
More information, including how to register, is available at www.heartsrest.com/convergence/convergence-writers-retreat/
Last year’s Convergence Weekend saw 25 participants from the West Kootenay and beyond enjoy writing workshops, meals, and talks on social justice themes.
This year’s event is sponsored by the United Church of Canada, the Columbia Basin Trust, the Trust’s Community Initiatives Program, and the Heart’s Rest Retreat Centre.
