Writing Workshop with Phil Jenkins

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Saturday
Aug , 2014
23
1:00pm
Eastern
Perth and Union Public Library
30 Harriott Street, Perth • Ottawa
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Writing Workshop with Phil Jenkins

From Good Idea to Good Read: Taking a Writing Project from Start to Finish

 

Phil will introduce and explain his ten-step program for marshaling that big thought, that “now that would be something worth writing about” all the way down the line(s) to a publishable package. Complete with tips on discipline, approach, and most of all on readability.

 

Tickets are available in person at:


The Book Nook
60 Gore Street East
Perth, ON
613 267-2350

And also online at www.ticketsplease.ca

 

 

The Authors

Phil Jenkins

Phil Jenkins

Phil Jenkins returned to Ottawa from Liverpool in 1978, with a degree in Environmental Sciences and a Teaching Certificate. He is a writer and performing musician. He has written over eight hundred columns with the Ottawa Citizen since 1991, numerous magazine articles, including ones for National Geographic Traveler, Canadian Geographic, Ottawa Magazine and Toronto Life. He is also the author of four national bestsellers: Fields of Vision, An Acre of Time (an Ottawa history), River Song, and Beneath My Feet, as well as three commissioned local histories, The Library Book, Off the Shelf and A Better Heart. He teaches and lectures in writing and Ottawa history and has released a CD, “Car Tunes,” with the Band Riverbend.  For more information, go to: www.philjenkins.ca  

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