Join award winning author Mark Anthony Jarman to learn how to use your travel adventures as inspiration for creative writing. From a hit and run in Ireland and an attempted pickpocketing in Venice, to a drunken widower climbing a Croatian cathedral’s altar to hug a statue of the Virgin Mary, Mark will share many of his own traveling experiences and the work they inspired. This unique two-hour workshop will include tips for documenting moments, tinkering with chronology, and embracing the many elements that define our travel experiences outside of the main attractions.
Saturday April 25
1-3 p.m.
Max group size: 12
Fee: $50
About Mark:
Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of 19 Knives, My White Planet, New Orleans is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa and the travel book Ireland's Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca's list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon's list of best hockey fiction. He has been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays, he won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories.
He has published in Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Vrig Nederland, and The Hong Kong Review. He is a graduate of The Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, and he is an editor with the new magazine Camel.
His collection of stories, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, was published in 2015, Czech Techno (Stories of Music) in 2020, and a travel book, Touch Anywhere to Begin, in 2022. Jarman edited Best Canadian Stories: 2023, and his most recent book, Burn Man, garnered rave reviews in Canada and the US and was a New York Times Editors Choice.
Refund Policy: Any registrant who cancels their registration 10 or fewer days prior to the start date of the class/workshop will forfeit a $50 cancellation fee. The remainder of the registration cost will be refunded. No refunds will be issued once the program begins.