Come prepared to write and learn!
You are invited to spend a unique and nourishing weekend taking part in a creative writing workshop led by writer Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes - winning selection for CBC Radio’s Canada Reads in 2009. Come prepared to spend a weekend writing, to enjoy the company of other writers, to partake of the fine food that Wintergreen offers, and to learn from the generous and insightful teaching of Lawrence Hill.
This workshop provides strategies for moving from ideas to implementation, and travelling forward from the first to the last page of a first draft. We will also discuss how to carry out a successful revision, as well as the business of looking for agents, publishers and markets for your written words.
About the Instructor
LAWRENCE HILL is the son of American immigrants - a black father and a white mother - who came to Canada the day after they married in 1953 in Washington, D.C. On his father’s side, Hill’s grandfather and great grandfather were university-educated, ordained ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother came from a Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois, graduated from Oberlin College and went on to become a civil rights activist in D.C. The story of how they met, married, left the United States and raised a family in Toronto is described in Hill’s bestselling memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (HarperCollins Canda, 2001). Much of Hill’s writing touches on issues of identity and belonging.
Lawrence Hill’s third novel was published as The Book of Negroes in Canada and the UK, and as Someone Knows My Name in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It won the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award.
Formerly a reporter with The Globe and Mail and The Winnipeg Free Press, Hill has lived and worked across Canada, in Baltimore, and in Spain and France. He is an honorary patron of Crossroads International, for which he travelled as a volunteer to the West African countries of Niger, Cameroon and Mali. Hill is also a member of the Council of Patrons of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, and of the Advisory Council of Book Clubs for Inmates. He has a B.A. in economics from Laval University and an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Hill lives in Hamilton, Ontario. For more information, visit: www.lawrencehill.com.