Join us for our new 3-part series - The Heliconian Writing Workshops
Registrants may register for all three parts using the available subscription model or may register for one or more of the individual events, which are detailed below.
Individual Workshop Cost: $45 for members, $55 for non-members (Includes HST) *Member registration opens January 1, 2025. Priority to members until Jan 31. *Non-member registration opens February 1, 2025 Workshop Series Cost: $120 for members, $150 for non-members (Includes HST)
Nailing Your Opening Pages with Bianca Marais
Friday, May 16, 2025, 1:00 - 4:00 PM (Prose writers at all levels welcome)
Readers' attention spans are shorter than ever. If you don't grab and hold their attention within the first few pages, you've already lost them. The same goes for literary agents looking for submissions that grip them from the very first paragraph.
There's so much heavy lifting your opening pages need to do in terms of:
Learn how to hook your readers through masterful storytelling, and what pitfalls to avoid. This session is participatory, involving prompt-based writing.
Bianca Marais is the author of the bestselling The Witches of Moonshyne Manor as well as the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words, If You Want to Make God Laugh, and the Audible Original The Prynne Viper. She taught at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies where she was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award for Creative Writing. She’s the co-host of the popular podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, which is aimed at helping emerging writers become published. Her forthcoming novel, A Most Puzzling Murder, will be out in April 2025. (Photo Credit: Brendan Fisher)
Writing & Developing Authentic Characters with Writer-in-Residence Elizabeth Ruth
Thursday, June 12, 1:00 - 4:00 PM (Prose writers at all levels welcome)
Please join us for an inspiring and interactive creative writing workshop which will include:
Participants will receive sample readings in advance and will come away with a greater sense of confidence in their ability to skillfully develop believable characters on the page. Please bring your notebook and pen or computer/device.
Elizabeth Ruth is the author of the novels Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke and Ten Good Seconds of Silence. Her debut poetry collection This Report Is Strictly Confidential appeared in 2024. Elizabeth's work has been recognized by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the City of Toronto Book Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. CBC named her “One of the Ten Canadian Women Writers You Must Read.” She authored a plain language novella for adult literacy learners titled Love You to Death and edited the anthology Bent on Writing: Contemporary Queer Tales. Elizabeth teaches creative writing at U of T and mentors through various organizations. (Photo Credit: Samuel Engelking)
Mining for Memoire with Kate Marshall Flaherty
Tuesday July 29, 2025, 1:00 - 4:00 PM (Prose writers at all levels welcome)
Memoire is a magical platform for self-discovery. Through memoire we make sense of memories. A simple smell, object, photograph or line can crack open our world, bringing us back to a past scene that sheds light on the present.
We’ll delve into prompts that stimulate writing, realizing the power of story. We all have touching, terrifying, tearful stories worthy of writing down. Themes we explore in memoire are both personal and universal, which connects us to ourselves as well as our readers.
Come … “Write your way home.”
Kate Marshall Flaherty has published seven poetry books, one play produced at the Great Canadian Theatre Co., many CNF essays, and one memoire-in-the-making. She's been published in CV2, Vallum, Grain, Room, Trinity Review, The Literary Review of Canada, Event and Tamarack Review and others, and has won many awards. She has currently gives memoire workshops online, in libraries and community centres. She guides workshops in the AWA Method, a safe space to take writing risks and develop craft organically, where each unique voice is valued, and the power of story is supported. She guides StillPoint Writing and Editing Circles in person and online. (Photo Credit: Sue Reynolds)
Passages can take us on a journey from one place to another... through different states of mind... or even into an unexpected new experience. Heliconian artists were invited to explore the theme of Passages in their original art. Our new exhibition features a wide variety of interpretations, from figurative to abstract, from paint to prints. Make this art part of your own journey - who knows where it will take you! Join us for a free Opening Reception on Saturday, May 3, from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Free art showing: Wednesday, May 14, from 4 :00 - 7:30 p.m. Free art showing, as part of Toronto's Doors Open Festival! Come tour our beautiful heritage building on Saturday, May 24, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Click image below to see the artists featured in this show. Gallery location: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto ON, M5R 2E3 Not able to make our public events? Please contact us at info@heliconianclub.org to arrange a viewing
Passages can take us on a journey from one place to another... through different states of mind... or even into an unexpected new experience.
Heliconian artists were invited to explore the theme of Passages in their original art. Our new exhibition features a wide variety of interpretations, from figurative to abstract, from paint to prints.
Make this art part of your own journey - who knows where it will take you!
Join us for a free Opening Reception on Saturday, May 3, from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Free art showing: Wednesday, May 14, from 4 :00 - 7:30 p.m.
Free art showing, as part of Toronto's Doors Open Festival! Come tour our beautiful heritage building on Saturday, May 24, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Click image below to see
the artists featured in this show.
Gallery location: Heliconian Hall,
35 Hazelton Ave,
Toronto ON, M5R 2E3
Not able to make our public events? Please contact us at info@heliconianclub.org to arrange a viewing
Click here for other available subscription options.
Described as a cross between a traditional book club and a university course without exams, this popular program is in-person and online for the 2024-25 season! This registration option is for the Wednesday and Thursday ONLINE subscriptions option.
A link will be sent to subscribers between 7:00 and 7:30 pm on the day of the lecture. The links to the lectures will be accessible from their launch date until August 31, 2025.
September 11 - Amanda Peters: Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
The stories describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A young woman finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector.
September 26 – Nina Dunic: The Clarion
Peter plays the trumpet and works in a kitchen; Stasi tries to climb the corporate ladder and lands in therapy. These sensitive siblings struggle to find their place in the world, seeking intimacy and belonging—or trying to escape it. The novel captures the vague if hopeful melancholy of any generation that believes it was never “called” to something great.
October 9 – Genevieve Scott: The Damages
The novel takes place at a fictional version of Queen’s University in the winter of 1998 during the devastating ice storm. Classes are cancelled and the students party. In the midst of it all, the narrator, Ros, is blamed for the disappearance of her roommate. Years later, her former husband is accused of sexually assaulting the missing girl the night she disappeared.
October 24– Marina Endicott: The Observer
The novel pulls heavily from Marina’s personal experience working in a small-town Alberta newspaper, when her husband, an RCMP officer, was posted to a small community north of Edmonton. In the novel, the couple’s new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time darkens and deepens it.
November 6 – Anuja Varghese: Chrysalis
The stories delve fearlessly into the complex intersections of family, community, sexuality, and cultural expectations. Anuja takes aim at the ways in which racialized women are robbed of power and describes the strange and dangerous journeys they undertake to reclaim it.
November 28 – Suanne Kelman interviews Anne Michaels about Held
It is a haunting meditation on our need to find meaning, to rediscover hope after deep loss, to rationalize the past and shape the future. Against a backdrop of the development of photography, Marie Curie’s discoveries, the struggle for women’s suffrage, Darwin’s radical ideas, different characters play out their individual lives from the early 1900’s to the present.
January 8 – Trevor Herriot: The Economy of Sparrows
Nell Rowan has inherited her family’s prairie farmstead and returns there to live after many decades working in Ottawa as a custodian at the Museum of Natural History. She is obsessed with a 19th-century bird collector who accidentally killed her great grandfather and is haunted by memories of the disappearance of her mother when she was eleven.
January 23– Sarah Henstra: The Lost Tarot
Theresa Bateman, a junior art historian in Toronto, receives a single tarot card in the mail. The image is unmistakably the work of celebrated avant-garde artist, Lark Ringold, of the 1930’s. Its discovery would mean a breakthrough in Theresa's career. But the legendary Ringold paintings were lost in a fire that claimed Lark's life in the final, horrific implosion of a notorious cult called the Shown.
February 12 - Thomas Trofimuk:
The Elephant on Karlův Bridge
Set in Prague and narrated by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins when an elephant named Sál escapes the Prague Zoo. As Sál moves through the city, the lives of the men and women she meets are altered by the encounter. Each is at a crossroads, and wrestles with questions of how to live, love and heal.
February 27 - Don Gillmor: Breaking and Entering
At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. Her marriage is stale, her relationship with her son Thomas is limited to text messages and she is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia. When she finds that she has both a talent and a passion for picking locks, the sense of anticipation that had been missing from her life returns.
March 12 - Kai Thomas: In the Upper Country
The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.
*POSTPONED TO JUNE 19: (was March 27) - Suanne Kelman lectures on Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The novel follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine.
April 9 – Scott Alexander Howard: The Other Valley
A novel about an isolated town. To the east and to the west exists the same town. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time; to the west, it is twenty years behind.
The narrator, sixteen-year-old Odile, is vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders.
*POSTPONED TO MAY 8: (was April 24) - Helen Humphreys: Followed by the Lark
Inspired by the journals and writing of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits the life and mind of this renowned nineteenth-century naturalist, poet and abolitionist, and reveals the deep connections between his time and our own.
May 7 - Darcie Friesen Hossack: Stillwater
Sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped and caught between her passion for science and the teachings of her Seventh-day Adventist father, Daniel, and her Mennonite mother, Marie. Her father, in a bid to regain his social standing and self-esteem, moves the family to an Adventist commune in BC’s Okanagan Valley.
MAY 22 – Merilyn Simonds:
Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
A remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. A Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay.
Described as a cross between a traditional book club and a university course without exams, this popular program is in-person and online for the 2024-25 season! This registration option is for the full 24 lecture ONLINE subscriptions option.
September 17 – Erum Shazia Hasan: We Meant Well
The novel grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide. Maya, an aid worker, must decide who to believe when her coworker, Marc, at the orphanage in Likanni, is accused of assaulting her former protégé, Lele.
October 15 – Michelle Porter: A Grandmother Begins the Story
The novel follows five generations of Métis women through this life and the next as they navigate the challenges facing them. Their story is told alongside the bison who used to roam freely and the land itself.
November 12 - Alissa York: Far Cry
The novel takes place in 1922 on a river inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. Shelagh Rogers describes the setting as a "beautiful, harsh world where people hold their secrets close as they cling to the edge of the continent.”
January 14 – Reema Patel: Such Big Dreams
A savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival.
February 18 – Lesley Krueger: Far Creek Road
It’s 1961, and Mary Alice (Tink) Parker is nine years old and lives with her family in a suburb of Vancouver. The story is told by Tink, an eccentric child, who is funny, observant, and impossibly nosy, with a tendency to blurt whatever’s on her mind. Bucolic at first, the story darkens as McCarthy-era paranoia infects the adults and spills over into the lives of the children.
March 18 –Mariam Pirbhai: Isolated Incident
When a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident. Nevertheless, the Islamic Cultural Centre is attacked on the festive Eid night, and friendships, family, and faith are tested.
April 9 – Scott Alexander Howard: The Other Valey
April 15 – Sandra Martin interviews Jane Urquhart about In Winter I Get Up at Night
In 1935, at the age of 11, the narrator, Emir, is terribly injured in a powerful prairie storm—the “great wind” that changes the trajectory of her life. Separated from her family, she recuperates in a children’s ward. Her fellow patients are a child performer, the daughter of a Dukhobor and the son of a Jewish socialist living on a collective farm.
May 13 – Suanne Kelman will lecture on James McBride's The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.
*POSTPONED TO JUNE 19: - Suanne Kelman lectures on Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
*POSTPONED TO MAY 8: (April 24) - Helen Humphreys: Followed by the Lark
Described as a cross between a traditional book club and a university course without exams, this popular program is in-person and online for the 2024-25 season! This registration option is for the Tuesday and Thursday ONLINE subscription option only.
If you purchase one in-person subscription, you can add on one online series of a different day for $70 or both for $140.
The Tuesday & Thursday Series includes:
October 15 – Michelle Porter: A Grandmother Begins The Story
October 24– MARINA ENDICOTT: THE OBSERVER
*POSTPONED TO MAY 8: (was April 24) – Sandra Martin interviews Jane Urquhart about In Winter I Get Up at Night
In 1935, at the age of 11, the narrator, Emir, is terribly injured in a powerful prairie storm—the “great wind” that changes the trajectory of her life. Separated from her family, she recuperates in a children’s ward. Her fellow patients are a child performer, the daughter of a Dukhobor and the son of a Jewish socialist on a collective farm.
April 24 - Helen Humphreys: Followed by the Lark
May 22 – Merilyn Simonds: Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
SOLD OUT - Click here for other available subscription options.
Described as a cross between a traditional book club and a university course without exams, this popular program is back in-person for the 2024-25 season!
This registration option is for the Thursday in-person subscription option. Subscription to the Tuesday or Thursday in-person Series will include access to the online lectures of same series when it is launched a week later, so if you miss a week in-person and want to catch the lecture or if you want to watch it again, you can. The links to all the online lectures will be accessible one week after the filming date until August 31, 2025.
The Thursday Series includes:
September 19 – Nina Dunic: The Clarion
October 17– MARINA ENDICOTT: THE OBSERVER
November 21 – Suanne Kelman interviews Anne Michaels about Held
January 16– Sarah Henstra: The Lost Tarot
February 20 - Don Gillmor: Breaking and Entering
*POSTPONED TO JUNE 12: - (was March 20) - Suanne Kelman lectures on Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
*POSTPONED TO MAY 1: (was April 17) - Helen Humphreys: Followed by the Lark
May 15 – Merilyn Simonds: Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
Raise the Roof! ...and Raise the Thermometer by attending a fundraising concert to replace the Heliconian Hall roof.
Our beloved building, which is about to turn 150, urgently needs a new roof, costing $80,000. To support this venture, a fundraising concert will be held on May 18th.
Join the dynamic duo of our own Kye Marshall (cello) and Dan Ionescu (guitar) in a jazz concert of standard and original compositions.
35 Hazelton Avenue, in the heart of Yorkville. Sunday May 18, 2025, 2 PM-5 PM. Doors open at 1:30 PM. There will be a cash bar and free snacks.
You can also donate to 'Raise The Roof' at HeliconianClub.org. Thank you!
Join Bri Clarke and Elizabeth Ruth on May 22, 2025 at the Heliconian Hall for their collaborative in-person performance Double Trouble!
These two Artists-in-Residence have created a one-of-a-kind text-to-movement experience. The choreography is inspired by Elizabeth’s recently published memoir-in-verse titled This Report is Strictly Confidential. The performance will integrate both art forms in new and exciting ways, creating a unique and engaging narrative. Audience Q & A and conversation immediately following the performance. Books will be for sale at the event or bring a copy from home to be signed.
Come and see what magic can happen when creative people work together!
When: Thursday, May 22, 2025 (Doors 6:30 pm, performance begins at 7 pm)
Admission: FREE
More information about the artists can be found on their websites:
Bri Clarke She/Her
Performer, Choreographer & Producer
BFA Toronto Metropolitan University (2020)
https://www.briclarke.ca/
Elizabeth Ruth
Novelist & Poet
https://www.elizabethruth.com
Each May,
Doors Open Toronto
invites the public to explore the city’s most-loved buildings and sites, free of charge. The event provides rare access to buildings that are not usually open to the public and free access to sites that would usually charge an admission fee. Since its inception in 2000, it has attracted more than two million visits to nearly 700 unique locations and remains the largest event of its kind in Canada.
This year on Saturday May 24th
we will be participating as we welcome the greater public through our doors.
View the Heliconian Hall Doors Open listing here
Monday Life Drawing Winter 2025
Dates: Mondays 10 am – 12 pm quick poses, 1 pm - 3 pm sustained pose. Doors open at 9:40 am. The doors will be locked at 9:55 am so we can start at 10 am sharp.
*closed for most statutory holidays
Join us on Tuesday May 27 at 7:30 pm for an evening of listening and learning as the
Heliconian Quartet, featuring Joyce Lai, Catherine Sulem, Velma Ko and Kye Marshall, performs classics and Heliconian original compositions (Tango/Rag/Bossa), while explaining how stringed instruments and quartet compositions are constructed.
Members $25 Non members $30
The current Heliconian Club Visual Artist-in-Residence, Tanya Murdoch, will be presenting a solo exhibition in June 2025 entitled I am Here and You are Here and They are Here and We are Here Together. It will be an eclectic, multi-faceted, non hierarchical mix of work around themes of nature, connection, love and acceptance, to counter the idea that there is only one way of being human. It will contain work created at the Heliconian, recent drawings and paintings in conversation with older (never exhibited) pieces and some video, with some work and presentation done in collaboration with members and artists from the Works-in -Progress Collective. From the artist: "I want the show to reflect the community I have connected to over the past year in residence, plus highlight the connections and community that still exist in these disconnected times. I am motivated to create work that reflects the beautiful kaleidoscope of life, where no one is normal and everyone has value. We are all here together." Public viewings on Saturday, June 7 2-5pm and Wednesday June 11, 4:30-7pm The show is supported with an exhibition grant from the Ontario Arts Council and the government of Ontario. Gallery location: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto ON, M5R 2E3 Not able to make our public events? Please contact us at info@heliconianclub.org to arrange a viewing
The current Heliconian Club Visual Artist-in-Residence, Tanya Murdoch, will be presenting a solo exhibition in June 2025 entitled
I am Here and You are Here and They are Here and We are Here Together.
It will be an eclectic, multi-faceted, non hierarchical mix of work around themes of nature, connection, love and acceptance, to counter the idea that there is only one way of being human. It will contain work created at the Heliconian, recent drawings and paintings in conversation with older (never exhibited) pieces and some video, with some work and presentation done in collaboration with members and artists from the Works-in -Progress Collective.
From the artist: "I want the show to reflect the community I have connected to over the past year in residence, plus highlight the connections and community that still exist in these disconnected times. I am motivated to create work that reflects the beautiful kaleidoscope of life, where no one is normal and everyone has value. We are all here together."
Public viewings on Saturday, June 7 2-5pm and Wednesday June 11, 4:30-7pm
The show is supported with an exhibition grant from the Ontario Arts Council and the government of Ontario.
2025 Literature and Visual Arts Salon
WOMEN, ART & THE AGE OF CREATIVITY:
An afternoon with Ramune Luminaire – Saturday May 31, 2:00-4:00 PM
Visual artist and author Ramune Luminaire has been making work about women and age for over 20 years. Join her for an afternoon of inspiration as she shares images of her drawing and sculpture, stories of repeated rejection and joyous acceptance, and introduces her debut novel, Coming of Age … Again, a heartfelt love story not only for older women, but for women of all ages wanting to be inspired. Copies of Coming of Age … Again, will be sold by Type Books at the event.
The reception begins at 2:00pm on Saturday May 31 2025
Tickets available on-line or at the door: $20 for members, $25 for the public
Club BBQ & Artists-in-Residence Showcase
Let’s celebrate our Artists-in-Residence at our annual summer BBQ on Friday June 6th, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
This is the first time, in several years, that we have welcomed an artist-in-residence in all 5 arts sections. The Artists-in-Residence will showcase their year with the Heliconian Club: some will perform for us, while others will discuss their work during the year.
The Humanities Section will convene this end of season celebration. We welcome all who would like to help organize (please email info@heliconianclub.org to volunteer).
Our BBQ will feature delicious food, including sliders (both meat and vegetarian) and all the 'fixins'. The cost is $35 for members and their guests. Please reserve at: https://torontoheliconianclub.wildapricot.org/event-6166972
We look forward to seeing you!
Thank you to co-convenors Velma Ko, Joan Woodward and Deb Cotton.
Join us, Saturday June 7th from 2-5 pm for our next exhibition opening! The current Heliconian Club Visual Artist-in-Residence, Tanya Murdoch, will be presenting a solo exhibition in June 2025 entitled I am Here and You are Here and They are Here and We are Here Together. It will be an eclectic, multi-faceted, non hierarchical mix of work around themes of nature, connection, love and acceptance, to counter the idea that there is only one way of being human. It will contain work created at the Heliconian, recent drawings and paintings in conversation with older (never exhibited) pieces and some video, with some work and presentation done in collaboration with members and artists from the Works-in -Progress Collective. From the artist: "I want the show to reflect the community I have connected to over the past year in residence, plus highlight the connections and community that still exist in these disconnected times. I am motivated to create work that reflects the beautiful kaleidoscope of life, where no one is normal and everyone has value. We are all here together." Public viewings on Saturday, June 7 2-5pm and Wednesday June 11, 4:30-7pm The show is supported with an exhibition grant from the Ontario Arts Council and the government of Ontario. Gallery location: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto ON, M5R 2E3 Not able to make our public events? Please contact us at info@heliconianclub.org to arrange a viewing
Join us, Saturday June 7th from 2-5 pm for our next exhibition opening!
Monday Life Drawing Winter/ Spring 2025
Join us for the 2nd viewing, Wednesday June 11, 4:30-7pm The current Heliconian Club Visual Artist-in-Residence, Tanya Murdoch, will be presenting a solo exhibition in June 2025 entitled I am Here and You are Here and They are Here and We are Here Together. It will be an eclectic, multi-faceted, non hierarchical mix of work around themes of nature, connection, love and acceptance, to counter the idea that there is only one way of being human. It will contain work created at the Heliconian, recent drawings and paintings in conversation with older (never exhibited) pieces and some video, with some work and presentation done in collaboration with members and artists from the Works-in -Progress Collective. From the artist: "I want the show to reflect the community I have connected to over the past year in residence, plus highlight the connections and community that still exist in these disconnected times. I am motivated to create work that reflects the beautiful kaleidoscope of life, where no one is normal and everyone has value. We are all here together." Public viewings on Saturday, June 7 2-5pm and Wednesday June 11, 4:30-7pm The show is supported with an exhibition grant from the Ontario Arts Council and the government of Ontario. Gallery location: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto ON, M5R 2E3 Not able to make our public events? Please contact us at info@heliconianclub.org to arrange a viewing
Join us for the 2nd viewing, Wednesday June 11, 4:30-7pm
Individual Workshop Cost: $45 for members, $55 for non-members (Includes HST) *Member registration opens January 1, 2025. Priority to members until Jan 31. *Non-member registration opens February 1, 2025 Whole 3-Workshop Series Cost: $120 for members, $150 for non-members (Includes HST)
Elizabeth Ruth is the author of the novels Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke and Ten Good Seconds of Silence. Her debut poetry collection This Report Is Strictly Confidential appeared in 2024. Elizabeth's work has been recognized by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the City of Toronto Book Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. CBC named her “One of the Ten Canadian Women Writers You Must Read.” She authored a plain language novella for adult literacy learners titled Love You to Death and edited the anthology Bent on Writing: Contemporary Queer Tales. Elizabeth teaches creative writing at U of T and mentors through various organizations.
(Photo Credit: Samuel Engelking)
*June 23rd is the last session of the season. Resumes September 8
**NEW DATE: TUES JULY 29**
Individual Workshop Cost: $45 for members, $55 for non-members (Includes HST)*Member registration opens January 1, 2025. Priority to members until Jan 31.*Non-member registration opens February 1, 2025 Whole 3-Workshop Series Cost: $120 for members, $150 for non-members (Includes HST)
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 1:00 - 4:00 PM (Prose writers at all levels welcome)
Kate Marshall Flaherty has published seven poetry books, one play produced at the Great Canadian Theatre Co., many CNF essays, and one memoire-in-the-making. She's been published in CV2, Vallum, Grain, Room, Trinity Review, The Literary Review of Canada, Event and Tamarack Review and others, and has won many awards. She has currently gives memoire workshops online, in libraries and community centres. She guides workshops in the AWA Method, a safe space to take writing risks and develop craft organically, where each unique voice is valued, and the power of story is supported. She guides StillPoint Writing and Editing Circles in person and online.
(Photo Credit: Sue Reynolds)
416-922-3618 info / 416-922-2431 building ~ info@heliconianclub.org / rentals@heliconianclub.org
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