WordsWorth Presents: Circuit Tree 2020
An online summer creative writing residency for youth aged 11-19 July 19 – 24 (ages 11-19), $250OnlineRegistration for Circuit Tree 2020 is now closed. The first ten registrations or referrals to a friend who hasn’t attended our summer camp in a previous year will receive a free t-shirt. From the creative minds that brought you […]
Drink the Wild Air 2020 – Cancelled
Date: March 20-22, 2020 Place: Nestor Lodge, Kamp Kiwanis in Bragg CreekAges: The retreat is for young writers ages 12-19. Cost: $215 (Price includes meals – Friday dinner to lunch on Sunday, overnight accommodations, classes and evening activities.) Drink the Wild Air 2020 has been cancelled. A Message from Colin Matty Dear Friends of WordsWorth, The best of the season to one and all! This […]
Drink the Wild Air 2018 – Registration Deadline Extended!
Date: March 9-11, 2018 Place: Nestor Lodge, Kamp Kiwanis in Bragg Creek, Alberta. Ages: The retreat is for young writers ages 12-19. Cost: $208 (Price includes meals – Friday dinner to lunch on Sunday, overnight accommodations, classes and evening activities.) Because we can’t offer WordsWorth all year long, there’s Drink the Wild Air. Drink the Wild Air is a whirlwind weekend of […]
Drink the Wild Air 2017
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Date: March 10-12, 2017 Place: Kamp Kiwanis in Bragg Creek, Alberta. Ages: The retreat is for young writers ages 12-19. Cost: $190 (Price includes meals – Friday dinner to lunch on Sunday, overnight accommodations, classes and evening activities.) Because we can’t offer WordsWorth all year long, there’s Drink […]
Get Packing! Drink the Wild Air
For those brave enough to write and drink the wild air, it’s time to get ready! Here’s a list of what to pack. For writing: (you will take 3 writing courses) A notebook pens, pencils, coloured pencils (whatever you need to get your ideas down) loose paper for Exquisite Corpse (writing) games in the evening […]
So Here’s The Deal
Have you seen the courses we’ve got lined up? The Instructors? The location? Drink The Wild Air promises to be an incredible weekend to escape the city to write and play in the mountains. But Our numbers are low. We need more young writers to make this work. We can’t run this weekend at a […]
And finally, Winter Retreat Course #3: Sense Storm
Erinne Sevigny is an editor and writer, but mostly an editor. She’s also the current Writers’ Guild of Alberta Edmonton Teen Mentor. She brings a decade of literary experience, including an applied bachelor’s in professional writing and seven years at the helm of a literary journal. This summer she will be crossing the country on […]
Course Number Two for the Winter Retreat! Being Creative about Non-Fiction
Kelsey Attard is the managing editor of Freehand Books, a literary publisher in Calgary. She has a Master of Publishing degree from Simon Fraser University. She is currently the youth mentor for the WGA’s Calgary Teen Writing Group, and has taught at several summer writing programs. Being Creative about Non-Fiction Isn’t it strange how non-fiction […]
Course announcement! Drink the Wild Air
Lisa Murphy-Lamb has taught French speaking preschoolers, university students with low literacy skills, multi-aged inclusive classrooms for the Calgary Board of Education, and poetry and creative writing in Houston Schools as part of Writers in the Schools–but she has never taught at WordsWorth, until now. With one full book published, contributions (both written and pictorial) […]
Wouldn’t you want to retreat here? Come write with us!
So, this is where we are heading out. Classrooms by campfires, meals by windows. Trees and mountains to tromp through. Pack your pens and notebooks, some wooly socks and boots. Let’s stargaze together, build a snow fort (if we’re lucky and there is this much snow), hike a mountain trail and tell stories. MARCH 1-3, […]