Up in Ontario

Kenora Writers Workshops

This coming weekend, November 27 and 28, I'll be in Kenora, Ontario at Elizabeth Campbell Books presenting two workshops for writers. The weekend is focused on books written about the Lake of the Woods area and the authors who wrote them. I'll have a worn copy of Up in Ontario in my hands and my mitts on to keep my hands warm. The schedule for the weekend looks something like the following.

On Saturday night, from 7 to 9, I will be presenting a writers workshop entitled Oral Tradition and Storytelling, and on Sunday afternoon, from 1 to 3, I will be presenting a second writers workshop, entitled The Importance of Setting in the Novel. Make sure to check out the Elizabeth Campbell Books website for the all details and directions to the store and how to sign up.

A number of other authors will also be in Elizabeth Campbell Books over the course of the weekend, signing books, reading and generally carrying on in a celebration of Lake of the Woods stories and literature. If you're in the area, or could be in the area with some forward planning, I recommend you check the event out.

I'm using the proceeds from the Live at the Lake Social to carry me there from Vancouver. So to all the folks who helped and attended the Live at the Lake Social, thank you. I'll think of all of you while I'm driving out to Kenora. It seems like the natural progression of a circle, since the Live at the Lake Social was all about bringing the culture and setting of Up in Ontario - the Lake of the Woods and Winnipeg areas - to Vancouver and now, on the cusp of winter, it's the proceeds from that same social sending me back to where I wrote about. And all of it just over a year since I received my first copies of Up in Ontario, my first books in hand.