The Superstars of Sir William Stephenson Library

It was so wonderful to meet the four dedicated young writers at the Sir William Stephenson Library Writing Workshop. This group worked really hard, and wrote with such care and attention to detail. The Get Sense-sational exercise was particularly well done, with sentences that brought all five senses to life. Fabulous!

There were a lot of fantastic ‘firsts’ for me in this workshop – I had the youngest writer ever in this group (four years old and full of great ideas and expressive words!), I met a young author who specializes in biographies and history, an author who puts a new twist on talking animal characters, and another author who is planning not just one story but a series! How exciting to meet you and get a glimpse of your impressive imaginations!

Thanks to the staff for setting up a room for me and introducing me to the group – your welcome was much appreciated.

Have a fun and happy summer – until we meet again…

Karin

Terrific Transcona!

What can I say about this dazzling group of young writers -other than I hope you learned as much as I did at the Transcona Library Writing Workshop! I was very impressed with all of your questions, and the originality of your thoughts, especially as we looked at the first and second draft of the paragraph about the audition – you really made me think!

There was a lot of ‘Outside the Box’ thinking which is what creative writing is all about, and I got the feeling that you were all inspiring each other with your ideas and comments. A truly cooperative effort – nice! This was a large group, but everyone was SO awesome at listening to each other and working together – very impressive! I was super thrilled when you asked if there would be more writing sessions – I certainly hope to develop more workshops and that we can work together again.

Thanks to the great staff at Children’s Services for getting things set up and for the friendly welcome!

Would love to return any time! Have fun this summer – see you again!

Karin

(P.S. I hear that some of you have already finished ALL of the books of your library’s summer reading list – but don’t worry, there are still thousands and thousands of books to read – and of course your own wonderful writing to turn to!)