Weekend Creative Writing Workshop with Douglas Arthur Brown and guest editor Pat O’Neil Theme: Self-Editing and writing from the reader’s perspective Saturday, January 28th from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm & Sunday, January 29th from 10:00 – 4 pm Location: Gallery 209, Eltuek Centre (former Holy Angels Convent) 170 George Street, Sydney. Cost: $200 + GST To register contact [email protected] Self-editing should be approached with a light touch in the first revisions of text before submitting your work to a professional editor or publisher for consideration. Once you develop a sense of how to edit — which is really about improving communication between you and the reader — you will be better able to apply these skills to your own work. An important and often overlooked aspect of self-editing is understanding how books are read from the reader’s point of view. During the weekend we will address a host of problems that editors typically face when assessing a manuscript or article and how to avoid those pitfalls. Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of seven books including Quintet which won the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize. In 2012 Douglas created Boularderie Island Press and since its inception has published and or co-published 60 books. He is a past president of the Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation and served on the board of directors for The Writers’ Union of Canada for three years. He has received an Established Artist Recognition Award from the province of Nova Scotia and was awarded both the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond and Platinum Jubilee Medals for his contribution to Canadian culture. Pat O’Neil has worked for thirty years in the writing/publishing industry as a writer, editor and publisher. She was Managing Editor and principal writer for The Cape Bretoner Magazine for six years. She has been published in several Canadian magazines and newspapers and has worked as a copywriter and producer for both radio and TV. As owner and operator of Solus Publishing she published books by several local authors. She has written two travel guides and two hiking books and has co-written eight full-length screenplays. Her first novel Confession Can Be Murder will be published in June of 2023 (Boularderie Island Press). This is the first of three weekend writing workshops offered by Douglas Arthur Brown. The second will concentrate on plot, February 25-26 and the third will concentrate on character, March 25-26