Welcome to the registration page for winter/spring 2025 Silent Writing Circle sessions!
Location - The County Arts Lab, Unit 2E, Picton Armoury Building
After offering 4 sessions of our Silent Writing Circle to writers in the fall of 2024, we are thrilled to be offering them once again this winter and spring! Sign up for as many or as few as you'd like below!
Do you struggle to focus on and complete your writing projects? Our Silent Writing Circles offer writers of all levels the time, space, accountability, and structure you need to bring your projects to fruition - or to just start writing!
What can you expect at a Silent Writing Circle session? Your friendly facilitator - Anne (Tuesday evening sessions from 6-7:30 p.m.) or Dominic (Friday morning sessions from 10:30-12) - will kick things off with a welcome and introductions. They will inform everyone of the structure of the session, which will include concentrated writing periods and short breaks. Prompts to get the creative juices flowing will be provided for anyone who needs/wants them.
These sessions are open to anyone 18+ and are FREE - but donations to support our work are always welcome at countyarts.ca/donate!
Dominic Leslie is a writer and storyteller who bounces between composing fantastical stories for children and constructing in-depth social observations. He is the author of two books — one in the former category, one in the latter — and he is currently working on his first novel. Outside of the nights and weekends he’s at his desk writing, he’s also a Strategy Director for a social impact agency and a children’s literacy advocate.
Anne McSommers has been writing since she was 6 and terrified her first-grade teacher with an entirely fictional story about a 6-year-old girl with a terrible life. Since then, she has written five novels (still in redrafting), and posts regularly to her writing blog anneswritingnook.com. When she is not writing, she is hosting events on her discord server "The Writer's Mess", an online writing community that she established in March 2020, or out at a local writing event around town.
County Arts makes every effort to ensure that all community members, including those who (or have family members who) are more medically vulnerable feel that they can safely teach and learn at the County Arts Lab. We also want to ensure that those who are unable to wear masks have access to our programming.
Please select the option below that best describes your comfort level with regard to masking. (Please note, if anyone in the session selects the third option, we will ask that everyone who is able to do so wear a mask.) If you have any questions, please reach out to Programs Assistant Heather McCorquodale at [email protected].
