Join Kathy for readings, a feedback/brainstorming session, and a goodbye until September! Come prepared with a piece of your writing to read and share with the group.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
Join David to write dialogue that sizzles — for screen, stage, or page! No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Free entry. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., event begins at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.
Join InkWell Workshops and knife | fork | book on Zoom for a book launch complete with readings, music, door prizes, and more!
InkWell Workshops’ latest groundbreaking anthology celebrates the brilliance found in madness, creativity, and connection by featuring poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from twenty-eight talented writers who are part of InkWell’s community writing workshops. With themes of nourishment and desire, grief and hunger for a new world, these are fierce writings from the margins: honest, defiant, funny, and wise.
We strive to create a friendly, inclusive vibe at all of our events. InkWell does not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination. Automatic closed captioning will be provided.
For more information about accessibility, our anti-discrimination policy, or with any other questions, please contact us at info@inkwellworkshops.com.
Learn techniques for telling your own life stories in this safe, interactive workshop. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
This workshop will adapt the oral tradition of storytelling as well as share traditional Indigenous knowledge. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Explore the basics of writing fiction in a fun, relaxed environment. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Send Dominik up to 5 pages of your writing and meet with him one-on-one to receive feedback.
Prior sign-up and participation in at least one InkWell workshop is required. For more information or to sign up, email info@inkwellworkshops.com.
This workshop will adapt the oral tradition of storytelling as well as share traditional Indigenous knowledge. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Learn techniques for telling your own life stories in this safe, interactive workshop. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
In this workshop, participants will read and write poetry exploring the relationship between the land we live on and our interior worlds. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
This salon will be for Black and Indigenous writers and writers of colour in the InkWell community. We will be coming together to connect, reflect, and nourish our sense of hope in each other's writing and our own. We encourage any writers who have attended at least one InkWell workshop and identify as BIPOC to join us.
Please contact info@inkwellworkshops.com with any questions.
Join InkWell for a special session with guest writer and musician Antonio Michael Downing, author of the new coming-of-age memoir Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming.
Antonio Michael will read from his book, discuss how and why he wrote about mental health issues and substance use, and will provide us with writing prompts to get our own creative juices flowing. You won’t want to miss this!
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
ANTONIO MICHAEL DOWNING grew up in southern Trinidad, Northern Ontario, Brooklyn, and Kitchener. He is a musician, writer, and activist based in Toronto. His 2010 debut novel, Molasses (Blaurock Press), was published to critical acclaim. In 2017 he was named by the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada's top Emerging Authors for nonfiction. He performs and composes music as John Orpheus.
In this workshop, participants will read and write poetry exploring the relationship between the land we live on and our interior worlds. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Send Liz up to 5 pages of your writing and meet with her one-on-one to receive feedback.
Prior sign-up and participation in at least one InkWell workshop is required. For more information or to sign up, email info@inkwellworkshops.com.
Join David to write dialogue that sizzles — for screen, stage, or page! No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Learn techniques for telling your own life stories in this safe, interactive workshop. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
AMA stands for Ask Me Anything, and this salon is an opportunity to ask a writer, editor, zinester, and small publisher all about how the publishing industry works. Do you need an agent? Should you self-publish your poems? What happens after your work is accepted for publication? Feel free to email your questions ahead of time to kathy@inkwellworkshops.com, or bring them with you and fire away!
We encourage writers who have attended at least one InkWell workshop to attend.
This workshop will adapt the oral tradition of storytelling as well as share traditional Indigenous knowledge. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Join David to write dialogue that sizzles — for screen, stage, or page! No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Send David up to 5 pages of your writing and meet with her one-on-one to receive feedback.
Prior sign-up and participation in at least one InkWell workshop is required. For more information or to sign up, email info@inkwellworkshops.com.
Explore the basics of writing fiction in a fun, relaxed environment. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
In this workshop, participants will read and write poetry exploring the relationship between the land we live on and our interior worlds. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
This workshop will adapt the oral tradition of storytelling as well as share traditional Indigenous knowledge. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Indigenous people are master orators and oral storytelling has been a tradition for millennium. Culture is not static. Indigenous oral tradition has evolved with the times and this practice has blossomed into multi-media platforms with a techno persuasion. Indigenous stories thrive from generation to generation in new and innovative ways. This salon will explore the impact modern technology has on the Indigenous oral tradition. We encourage writers who have attended at least one InkWell workshop to attend.
Learn techniques for telling your own life stories in this safe, interactive workshop. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Explore the basics of writing fiction in a fun, relaxed environment. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Send Dominik up to 5 pages of your writing and meet with him one-on-one to receive feedback.
Prior sign-up and participation in at least one InkWell workshop is required. For more information or to sign up, email info@inkwellworkshops.com.
Join special guest author Rowan McCandless for a writing workshop for Black History Month.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
Rowan McCandless lives and writes from Winnipeg, which is located on Treaty 1 territory, the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, Dene, Métis, and Oji-Cree Nations. Her writing has appeared in print and online journals such as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Room, Skin Deep, The Nasiona, and in the anthology, Black Writers Matter. In 2018, Rowan’s short story, Castaways, was long-listed for the Journey Prize. In 2019, she won the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize. In 2020, she received gold, as well as an honourable mention, with the National Magazine Awards-- one-of-a-kind storytelling. Her essay collection, Persephone’s Children will be published in 2021 with Dundurn Press.
In this workshop, participants will read and write poetry exploring the relationship between the land we live on and our interior worlds. No experience necessary.
Please note that the workshop will run from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, with facilitated social time beginning at 1:45 pm and ending at 3:45 pm.
To participate in the live workshop by internet or phone, please email us at info@inkwellworkshops.com. Or check out our online workshop space anytime.
This discussion group for InkWell writers who identify as Black will focus on issues including underrepresentation in publishing, the exploitation of Black trauma, and the importance of stories of Black joy.
We encourage Black writers who have attended at least one InkWell workshop to join us.
Please contact info@inkwellworkshops.com with questions.
