Space is limited! Reserve your seat today: https://forms.gle/ZWXnRdmPuKQASxrU6

At the Bobcaygeon branch library at 10:30 AM, Colleen Subasic will deliver the following workshop for writers: “Write the senses.”

In this session, you’ll learn acting sense memory techniques that will help you to write more engaging prose. Whether it’s steamy romantic scenes, or intense action scenes, these techniques allow you to bring your reader into a scene like no other practice can.

Admission is free. Space is limited. Please register to reserve your seat at https://forms.gle/ZWXnRdmPuKQASxrU6

COLLEEN SUBASIC has worked with writers, publishers and theatres in the United States and Canada. She taps her professional acting training to create unique, insightful writing workshops that inspire and energize. Nine of her plays have been produced across Canada. As managing editor of the book Taking the Stage, she won a Canadian Booksellers’ Award for Most Saleable Publication of the year. For her creative writing, she has received Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council, Nova Scotia arts council grants, as well as a University Graduate Fellowship. Her work has appeared in SubTerrain Magazine, and other Canadian literary publications. She has worked as an editor / dramaturge for small literary presses and Neptune Theatre in Halifax. Through her group The Wordshop, she helps people write their memoirs, works as a story doctor (fiction, non-fiction, screenplay), and on her own writing projects. She’s developing a service to help writers with their manuscripts in progress. She has two master’s degrees: One in creative writing and another in adult education and facilitation.

The Kawartha Lakes BOOK FESTIVAL is made possible by partnership with the Kawartha Lakes Public Library.