[BCMA] November Writing Workshop with Laisha Rosnau

Wed Oct 8 10:23:00 PDT 2014

October 9, 2014

Public Service Announcement

For Immediate Release

Caetani Centre launches 4 day November Novel Writing Workshop with Writer in Residence Laisha Rosnau

Saturdays, November 1, 15, 22 and 29, 2014 (no workshop Nov. 8)

1 – 4 pm

November is “National Novel Writing Month” (NaNoWriMo)!

Have novel in progress or a story just waiting to be told? Then this workshop is for you!

Aspiring writers are invited to take part in developing their novel writing and creative skills and receiving weekly feedback from a published and practicing professional writer.

In honour of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), join author, Laisha Rosnau, at the Caetani Cultural Centre for a month-long weekend series on how to write a novel. Learn how to plan for, plot, and structure a novel. Understand how to identify and coax the most compelling material, and how to build a world around it. Begin to develop and deepen characters, strengthen narrative voice and point of view. Create convincing settings and dialogue and write vivid descriptions. Over four workshops, we will foster idea generation, writing, and editing skills through instruction, writing workshops, and discussion. Craft issues will also be discussed and the exploration of fiction markets.

Laisha Rosnau is the author of the best-selling novel, The Sudden Weight of Snow, and three poetry collections, Pluck, Lousy Explorers, and Notes on Leaving. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in anthologies and magazines in Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. Her work has been nominated for several awards, including the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award, three times for the CBC Literary Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and has won the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award. Rosnau is currently working on a novel based on the storied history of the Caetani family in Vernon.

Rosnau holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and a BA from the University of Victoria. She has taught creative writing, poetry and fiction at UBC Okanagan, Okanagan College, and the Vancouver Film School. She has coordinated the Vertigo Voices Reading Series at Gallery Vertigo, was a judge for the John Lent Poetry-Prose Award, Kalamalka Press; Okanagan Short Fiction Contest; and the Room Literary Magazine Fiction Contest.

Rosnau was a Reader, CBC/En Route Literary Award, Poetry Category in the Fall 2007, and has worked as the Associate Director, Booming Ground Writers’ Community, and as Executive Editor, PRISM international Literary Magazine.

Review of her work:

…Rosnau has exhibited a stunning debut. I am still wincing with identification and

recognition. The Sudden Weight of Snow is light and bright and sparkling with acidic

undertone. I’ll end with a quote from Rosnau, who merits the last word: “No new snow

had fallen. The ground shone, sun off taut skin, and I didn’t close the blinds, squinted into the glare.” Excerpt of Review of The Sudden Weight of Snow from The Toronto Star, June 23, 2002, Blinded by the light – reviewed by Patricia Robertson

The cost of the 4 day workshop is $25 for existing Caetani Members, and $50 for non-members (will include a membership). Participants can register on-line at www.caetani.ca.

This program is generously sponsored in part by a grant from the British Columbia Arts Council.

For more information, please contact the Caetani Centre 250-275-1525   (9 am – 1 pm, Mon - Fri.), or visit our website www.caetani.ca.

ABOUT THE CAETANI CULTURAL CENTRE
Residencies for Creative and Cultural Explorations
The Caetani Cultural Centre is a registered charitable organization dedicated to providing creative spaces, projects and opportunities for local, national, and international artists, writers, and creative individuals, and to providing educational and interactive opportunities for the Greater Vernon cultural community.
The Caetani Cultural Centre is funded in part by the British Columbia Arts Council, the Regional District of the North Okanagan, memberships, donations, sponsorships and foundation grants.

Please visit our website www.caetaniculturalcentre.org for additional information or call the Caetani Cultural Centre (C3) at 250-275-1525.

Pictured Attached: Laisha Rosnau
Thank you!

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Susan Brandoli

Manager/Artist in Residence Coordinator
Caetani Cultural Centre
3401 Pleasant Valley Road
Vernon, BC V1T 4L4
250-275-1525
manager at caetani.ca

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