Recently, a parent calling to enquire about our summer writing camps commented that her younger daughter – not yet old enough for Centauri Arts Camp- was not a reader like her older sister, and that they were struggling to find ways to encourage her to read. Did we have any thoughts we could share, after [...]
New Creative Writing Camp for 2015! Discover how to build a fantastical world so compelling a reader will lose themselves in it. Create rounded characters, learn how to make the incredible credible, and develop strategies for constructing flawless plots. In this genre-writing program we will focus specifically on fantasy, though the skills we'll learn apply [...]
We're Offering a New Collaborative Program at Camp Next Summer! "The People Project" will run in session 2, and is an exciting collaboration between our dance, theatre and creative writing departments, at the end of which a full length show will be staged. Campers will explore human interaction, emotion and conflict, using the medium of [...]
At Centauri Arts Camp, writers spend 4 hours a day focused on their own work and share their pieces with other writers every day. No wonder many of us feel our most creative under the Centauri Poet Tree! Inspiration and time to write are harder to find when we’re not at camp, but there are [...]
A couple of weeks ago a parent who was dropping his teenager at the Arts Academy said to me, "You know, I have absolutely no idea what you do in a creative writing class". So... this blog is for all those who eagerly support their son's or daughter's passion for writing, but really have no [...]
This blog is for our younger creative writers who live in and around Toronto! See below for a terrific upcoming workshop: Small Print Toronto presents The Volume One Project with Mahtab Narsimhan Sun Feb 5 – 10 AM - Noon Mabel’s Fables, 662 Mt Pleasant Road $5 Sign up at www.smallprinttoronto.org The Volume One Project [...]