Biff Mitchell’s Writing Hurts Like Hell Two-Week Late Fall Workshop

Put aside just four evenings and do something you’ve always dreamed of…start that novel. The Writing Hurts Like Hell Fall Workshop will give you the tools to start and finish your novel no matter how busy your schedule. You’ll learn how to create characters that breathe and worlds that intrigue. You’ll learn how to get your ideas out of your head and onto paper or screen where you can see them and turn them into a story. You’ll defeat personal demons and use them to put fire in the bellies of your charactrers. Plus, you’ll have fun! Classes will be in malls, bars, studios – everywhere. No experience needed…we start from scratch.

Though the emphasis will be on fiction, whether you want to write a novel, short stories, poetry, business or technical documents or just write emails that will leave your friends in awe…this workshop will get your creative juices flowing. Try your first class free before you decide if this is really for you.

November 14 – November 25
Tuesdays and Thursdays
6:30 PM till 8:30 PM
Price: $75

To enrol, or for more information:
Email: biff@biffmitchell.com
Phone: 455-BIFF
Or, show up at the first session (November 14) for free at Starbucks, Regent Mall

Biff Mitchell's novels have been published in Canada, Australia and the United States. His blend of off-beat humor and surrealism make him one of Canada’s most obscure writers. Besides being a regular contributor to the award-winning Twisted Tails anthologies, his short fiction and not-poetry has appeared in anthologies, collections, ezines, magazines and on CBC Radio. Biff has instructed at the Maritime Writers’ Workshop since 2006.

Fredericton’s NO LIMITS 12 HOUR READ-A-THON

Hey folks,

This is for real! It’s your chance to be heard … on your terms. It’s the very first NO LIMITS 12 HOUR READ-A-THON. It’s on Saturday, May 19 and it’s sponsored by the Maritime Writers’ Workshop and Literary Festival.

It’s all over downtown Fredericton and there are no … absolutely no … limits on what you can read. No limits on who or what you are … you can be a writer, you can be a not-writer. You can read something you’ve written or something somebody else has written. You can read your favorite letter you’ve received from an old friend. You can read your favorite piece of documentation. You can read your favorite poem. You can read from your blog. You can read from somebody else’s blog. You can read a short story you’ve written.

There are NO LIMITS. You can be 9 years old or 90 years old. You can be a journalist or somebody who reads newspapers and magazines. You can be a sidewalk bard, a folk singer, a river poet, a radio copy writer, a computer documentation writer, an annual report writer … there are NO LIMITS!

If you’re interested send me an email at biff@biffmitchell.com or send Andrew Titus an email at atitus@unb.ca. We need to hear from you soon because Fredericton’s very first NO LIMITS 12 HOUR READ-A-THON is just 17 days away.

PLUS … there will be a poetry slam, a reading on the Green, a special venue for kids!

And please … forward the url to this blog to as many people as you can think of who might be interested in reading ANYTHING they’ve written, or anything anybody else has written … like the lyrics to their favorite Doors song, or the funniest for sale sign they’ve seen on a bulletin board, or …