Event

New Forum Writing Workshop with Cecelia Frey

This two-hour workshop will explore self identity and the writer, its recognition and importance in achieving empowerment. Through exercises with writing prompts as well as free writing, we'll recognize our individual writing strengths and weaknesses and how to work with them to our advantage. We'll share and contrast experiences. We'll talk about how we can best use this knowledge to benefit our writing.

Cecelia Frey is the author of fifteen books of fiction and poetry as well as works of non-fiction and award-winning plays. She has worked as an editor, teacher, and freelance writer, and has for many years been involved in the Calgary literary community. Her short stories and poetry have been published in dozens of literary journals and anthologies as well as being broadcast on CBC radio and performed on the Women's Television Network. Numerous reviews, essays and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications including newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and journals as varied as Westworld and Canadian Literature. Her novel, A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing, was shortlisted for the 2009 Writers Guild of Alberta (WGA) George Bugnet Fiction Award and she is a three-time recipient of the WGA Short Fiction Award. Her most publications include novels Lovers Fall back to the Earth (2018), The Long White Sickness (2013) and Moments of Joy (2015); and a collection of poetry North (2017).