TWO WINGS MAKE A BIRD;TWO SLICES MAKE A SANDWICH

JAN 11, 7.30p.m.-9.00p.m. at the Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str. GARY BARWIN leads in a discussion/workshop on collaborative writing.
Participants get to try different techniques with each other, drawing on a range of different collaborative works.

STORIES ON AN EVENING IN DECEMBER with ADAM GETTY

Tues Dec 14, 7.30-9.00p.m. 27 King William Street.
Bring with you a story to tell or read to warm us up on a cold dark night in the heart of the city. The company of LitChat regulars and visitors is in itself a gift in the tradition of a LitChat Christmas.

TEACHING WRITING - Can it be one? How and Why?

TUES NOV 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, 27 King William Street
ELLEN S JAFFE talks about her writing workshops with children and adults, and invites people to share their own experiences – of teaching they have done and workshops they have taken. What works and what doesn’t? How has taking a workshop, teaching a writing course, or mentoring/being mentored affected your own writing?
Ellen is a Hamilton writer, who came to Canada from the U.S. in 1979. She writes poetry and fiction (including y/a novels), and drama, and has also written a book on writing, Writing Your Way: creating a personal journal. (Sumach Press, 2001). Ellen has worked with “Learning/Living Through the Arts” and has received Artist in Education grants from the Ontario Arts Council, as well as doing other teaching in Hamilton, Toronto, and elsewhere in Ontario – including the Six Nations Reserve and Moose Factory. She has studied with bill bissett, Patrick Lane, and Jane Hirshfield. She also had a grade two teacher who commented on her drawing: “That is not a tree. Make yours as nice as Linda’s!” (at least, that’s how she remembers it) – and this has influenced her

Tues Sept 14, 7.30-9.00p.m.
Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street
LitChat the literary salon brings you our local author Trevor Cole with the topic "Practical Jean: How Inspiration Trumped Research". He will share on how ideas can lead up to the writing of a novel. Trevor spent 14 years in the Globe and Mail's magazine division and a three year stint as a senior writer at Report on Business Magazine. He has won many awards. His books include Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life and The Fearsome Particles. His third novel Practical Jean, is a black comedy about a woman whose mother has just died of cancer and vows to spare her friends the same sort of end. It will be released in Sept 2010. For further details go to his website www.trevorcole.com

INDUSTRIAL POETRY

TUES JUNE 8 2010, 7.30p.m. Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str.
ED WOODS introduces INDUSTRIAL POETRY and shares on how his life experiences led him to be the poet he is today. He is an active member of Tower Poetry Society. His book Poetry and Other Unfortunate Non-fiction was published in 2009.

ELLEN JAFFE ON TEACHING WRITING -rescheduled to Nov

TUES MAY 11, 7.30p.m. 27 King William Street
Can it be done? How and why?” Ellen S. Jaffe talks about her writing workshops with children and adults, and invites people to share their own experiences – of teaching they have done and workshops they have taken. What works and what doesn’t? How has taking a workshop, teaching a writing course, or mentoring/being mentored affected your own writing?
Ellen is a Hamilton writer, who came to Canada from the U.S. in 1979. She writes poetry and fiction (including y/a novels), and drama, and has also written a book on writing, Writing Your Way: creating a personal journal. (Sumach Press, 2001). Ellen has worked with “Learning/Living Through the Arts” and has received Artist in Education grants from the Ontario Arts Council, as well as doing other teaching in Hamilton, Toronto, and elsewhere in Ontario – including the Six Nations Reserve and Moose Factory. She has studied with bill bissett, Patrick Lane, and Jane Hirshfield. She also had a grade two teacher who commented on her drawing: “That is not a tree. Make yours as nice as Linda’s!” (at least, that’s how she remembers it) – and this has influenced her teaching

SMALL TOWN ONTARIO, STRATFORD 65 YEARS AGO

Tues April 13, 7.30p.m.
Bruce A. Woods is a retired minister who lived in Stratford for 16 years. His book Between Two Women addresses two audiences - his readers and the inhabitants of another invisible world made up of guardian angels and the Greek Gods of Mythology. He uses this literary technique for side-splitting humour, beguiling his reader into a mystical, almost religious experience.

LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES: the Fictional and the Real

Tues Mar 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 KIng William Str. David Cohen a teacher and an activist (local stuff, Middle East)who dabbles in lit will lead in a discussion of THe Anthologist by NIcholson Baker and The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. Philip Larkin.

NEWFOUNDLAND WRITING

Tues Feb 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str.
Jeanie MacFarlane, a longtime book reviewer and freelance writer, will share on Newfoundland Writing, having spent many summers there.