Can you keep up?

Wordsworth overflows with talent.  And often with talent comes awards and recognition.  Here are the latest WordsWorth participants who are shortlisted for an award Except for Sally Dahl.  She has already won the coveted Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth!  Way to go Sally. Marcello DiCintio‘s Wall is presently shortlisted for Wilfred Eggleston Award for […]

The Fragments are coming to WordsWorth!

The Fragments perform an eclectic range of indie pop, including diversions into jazz and folk music, with lyrical tangles that will keep you scratching your head while tapping your feet. Despite having been on the Calgary scene for less than a year, already the band has released its debut album, landed a full-length profile in the […]

(re)Introducing our First Creative Team Member, Julia Seymour

Julia (that’s her) is very excited to be returning to Wordsworth as a creative team member (again!? What! It’s madness, Madness!) She is a graduate of Grant MacEwan University’s Theatre Arts Program and founder of Footlights Summer Drama Camps based out of Spruce Grove, AB. When she is not practising wistfully gazing out of windows […]

Songwriting Course With Kris Demeanor, Week One

Songwriting workshop Words, I’d like you to meet music.  Music, words.  For the next 3 and half to four minutes, we invite you to surf on each other’s energy, embark on a union of sweet syncopation; make the world dance, laugh, think and cry.  And…go! Songs are one of the ultimate ways to tell a […]

Week One: Action Scenes with Kim Firmston

Kim Firmston is a real life mutant – though one without any cool powers. When she is not writing or cursing obvious villain mistakes, she warps young minds in her Reality is Optional Kid’s Writing Club and DramAntics Youth Theatre Camp. Kim has written and produced many plays, had a few short stories make it […]

Get Real with Marcello DiCintio (week two)

Course: Get Real! The real world is generous with stories and is filled with characters in need of an author. Who needs to make anything up? Step away from alternative dimensions for a brief holiday in reality. In this creative nonfiction course, writers will weave true stories into artful narratives. We will mine our own experiences […]

SongWriting Class with Brendan McLeod (week 2)

Songwriting Class Hey – you! You wanna write some sweet tunes? Good. Songwriting class is the place to go. It’s awesome business. Here’s how it works: at the start of each session, two students play their favourite tunes for everyone to listen to, and we all sit around on the floor with our eyes closed […]

Crawl Inside the Skin of Your Character with Emily Ursuliak (week 2)

Course Description: Crawl Inside the Skin of Your Character One of the most thrilling things about writing fiction is the opportunity to climb into the skin of another person.  Nothing drives the process of writing a story forward more than really feeling as though you understand the person you’re embodying, no matter how different they […]