Lakehead Orillia offering writer’s workshop for budding authors

January 4, 2019 – Orillia, ON

Offered through the Office of Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning, these four workshops will not only inspire you to pick up that pen, but they will guide you into the writing process in four different ways that are sure to help you get your stories onto the page.

Storyteller and writer Susan Charters will guide participants in finding inspiration for stories in everyday objects and personal events. Author Heather Wilson will share her unique method to writing that will ease participants into starting to write. Author Annette Zoheret will show participants how to infuse dialogue into narrative to bring their stories to life. And, editorial literary assistant Bree Crowder will close the workshop by helping participants navigate the editing process.

Open to all skill levels, this series of workshops will take place at the Orillia campus and run every Wednesday for four weeks beginning on January 16, 2019.

$59 plus HST. Register today at mysuccess.lakeheadu.ca/cell/cellevents.

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Media: For more information or to request an interview, contact Jaclyn Bucik, Marketing & Communications Associate, 705-330-4008 ext. 2014 or jaclyn.bucik@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2019 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities and in 2018 Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the fourth consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.