Guest mentors also visit our members in Centered once a month to lead workshops, teach short courses, and give lectures on special topics. Our contest ran for ten years, from 2011-2021, and you can listen to those audio sessions here. Then there are the authors who judged our Little Bird Writing Contest! Authors like Cherie Dimaline and Sheena Kamal, who not only selected winning stories for our published anthology, but also recorded a podcast with me, to talk about writing, revision, publishing, and more. Our writers are advised by authors they love-like Eden Robinson, Margaret Atwood and George Saunders-as well as from leaders in other fields, like psychology, leadership, design, music, and humour. I ask guests specifically about their pitfalls, and how they got out of them, so students can learn from their experiences. We believe in artistic cross-training: our creative writing benefits from the unexpected insights we receive through guidance, conversation, and experimentation with a variety of sources.Įvery year, a guest expert visits the Story Intensive to teach students about a special topic in a MindShare Session. One of the reasons our creative writing programs are so successful is because we connect writers to a wide network of writers, artists, teachers, healers, visionaries, and experts. W hen you join our school, you get to be part of a big, inspiring creative collective.
