b'inspired to write?Writing Workshops for Adults and YouthIn spring of 2020, Scugog Arts will sponsor our annualadults and youth to explore the wide range of tech-Literary Writing Contest once again. niques available to access visual prompts and create This year contestants will be offered the opportu- inspired pieces of writing. (You do not have to enter nity to write short stories, creative nonfiction or poetrythe contest to attend the workshops).inspired by four fabulous works of art from our An- Intheseworkshops,participantswillbeencour-nual Juried Art Show.aged to create and share new pieces. Time will also be This kind of writinginspired by a work of art set aside to write a good first draft of a piece inspired is called Ekphrastic Writing.Ekphrasis is a Greekby our Contest Prompt Pieces. word that translates to description, but ekphrasticTechniqueslearnedintheseworkshopsensure writing goes far beyond a simple description of thewriters will always find a source of inspiration when piece of art. they sit down at their notebook or keyboard. Attend Insupportofwriterswhoareconsideringourthese workshops and you will never engage with art contest, Scugog Arts is offering workshops this fall forquite the same way again!TWO WORKSHOPS FOR ADULT WRITERS:Sunday October 6, 1 to 4 p.m. Inspired by Art, Short Prose, Fiction and MemoirSunday November 10, 1 to 4 p.m.Inspired by Art, Poetry and Flash Fiction JAMES DEWAR teaches poetry and His poetry and short fiction have been fiction workshops throughout the Metro- publishedinseveralanthologiesand politan Toronto area and internationally.literaryjournals.HiddenBrookPress He has been awarded the Teaching Excel- published his latest book of poetry, The lence Certificate by Durham College forGarden in the Machine, in 2007. His short his Advanced Creative Writing classes.story, Strychnine Blues, was featured in OverthelasttenyearshehashelpedThat Dammed Beaver, a 2018 collection judge writing and poetry contests for theof Canadian Humour, Laughs and Gaffs League of Canadian Poets, Ontario Writ- from Exile Editions. ers Conference, Canadian Authors Asso- He is currently finishing a novel and ciation and other writing organizations. refining a new book of poetry.FOR YOUTH: DO YOU LOVE TO WRITE?Four Consecutive Wednesdays November 627 , 4 to 5:30 p.m. Inspired by Art For YouthWould you like to enter your writingyou write winning entries for the rest of in a contest with cash prizes? your writing life.ScugogArtsisofferingaseriesofSUSAN LYNN REYNOLDS is a writ-workshops this fall for youth from 12- er,teacherandpsychotherapistwhose 16 years old where you can learn tech- specialty is writing for therapeutic ben-niques of ekphrastic writingwritingefit.ShehasbeenanaccreditedAWA inspired by art. writing workshop facilitator since 2002 Come to these workshops to learn andand teaches in the community, in college practice creative writing skills and get acontinuing education programs, and in head start on developing your entry forsocial services settings. She writes and the 2020 Scugog Literary Prize for Youth,has won awards for her YA novel, short as well as developing skills that will help stories, poems and creative non-fiction. Scugog Council for the Arts 181 Perry St., Unit G-1, Port Perry905-982-2121www.scugogarts.caFOCUS - OCTOBER 201921'