BAM North Productions presents

Fiction Writing Intensive

with Marnie Woodrow

July 24-27th 2014

Location: 40 km west of Sudbury, Ontario CANADA

4 days, 3 nights, all meals – Earlybird price to April 30 $475 / Regular price $499

(To reserve your spot a deposit of $125 is all that is required! Balance June 24) Location: BAMs Spanish Riviera near Sudbury, Northern Ontario

Fiction Writers: literary, film, stage. Looking for a spread of time to move forward on your fiction project and take your skills to a new level? Join award-winning teacher Marnie Woodrow and a small group of supportive, diverse writers for an affordable retreat in an idyllic Northern Ontario setting this summer: retro cabins, kilometres of undisturbed shoreline, 400 wild acres, fabulous cooks, wood-burning sauna, canoes and kayaks, excellent swimming, quiet and secluded. The retreat will offer a combination of facilitated group writing exercises; 1: 1 time coaching from Marnie; lively discussions on topics relevant to writers of varous genres ; time to work independently; sharing your work with others for constructive feedback.

Marnie Woodrow is the author of two short fiction collections — Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss and In The Spice House —and a novel, Spelling Mississippi, which was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada Best First Novel Prize. She is also a produced playwright – her plays Soupcon and At A Meeting for The Society of Individuals Who Believe Themselves to Be The Reincarnates of Famous People were performed in Toronto by Everybody to the Theatre Company in late 2013. She has written two other plays, currently in workshop, Gifted, and What Shall We Care About Next? She is a member of Pat the Dog Theatre Creation as well as a member of The Editors’ Association of Canada. Poems have appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, CV2, The Church Wellesley Review and Queen Street Quarterly. Marnie's freelance journalism has appeared in Toronto Life, NOW Magazine, Grapevine, The Globe and Mail, The National Post and Curve and she was a popular humour columnist for Toronto’s XTRA! for 4 years. She is a recipient of an Excellence In Teaching prize from the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies as well as holding a Certificate in Bereavement Education from the Faculty of Social Work, also University of Toronto. Through her online and in person work with writers of fiction and non-fiction over the past 15 years, Marnie has edited dozens of memoirs, novels, short fiction collections, plays and film scripts. She is currently finishing work on her second novel, title TBA. She lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario.