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Course Director Russell taught Creative Fiction Writing to beginning and intermediate writers for ten years at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, and for three at the Nova Scotia Community College. Through Creative Holidays Nova Scotia, he leads a number of popular summer workshops in Liverpool NS. They focus on issues dealing with understanding and exploiting first draft creativity and techniques for refining later drafts. This is Russell’s fifth year directing these workshops. He also teaches 30 hour courses (3 hours per week per course) in Halifax and Dartmouth during the fall and winter. His curriculum covers the basics and is built on needs expressed by students, a number of whom have gone on to publish full length novels. Russell has written The Way of The Story, a two-part textbook, that students find easy to understand and insightful. His good sense of humour and consideration for the sensibilities of each student contribute to a fun-filled learning experience that will change the way you write, read and appreciate literature. Russell is currently working on a novel, The Lemon Squeezer, the story of a boy raised during WW11 and how he copes with growing up to become a member of a civilized community in a world that is waging war. A chapter from The Lemon Squeezer called Heroes Until was awarded a prize in the 2006 WFNS Atlantic Writing Competition Short story category and will be published in May 2007 by Vagrant Press. Russ's additional writing credits include thirty years as a public servant writing speeches and briefing notes for MPs and Cabinet Ministers and reports for Parliament on Multiculturalism "Everyone is capable of creating good fiction.
My courses speed up the journey to excellence," says Russ. He is
a member of the Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation.
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Susan is a visual artist/writer with a background in business strategy. She has embraced the South Shore of Nova Scotia, making it her home and inspiration for the past 20 years. Her writing appears in A Drop in the Ocean a collection of short stories from Nova Scotia, Life, an award winning collection of poems and The Beach, poetry written on Cherry Hill Beach Lunenburg County. She is the writer-in-residence at www.novascotiacanada.ca. Susan lives with her husband Arne and four dogs on the lighthouse route in Queens County Nova Scotia. In November 2006, Susan participated in National Novel Writing Month - which challenged over 70,000 writers around the wrold to write a novel in the 30 days of November. Susan achieved this goal in 3 weeks and is now busy researching, editing, and rewriting her exciting first draft of her novel Stones. Susan is your first point of contact when
making your programme selection. She will ensure that your individual
needs are provided for, custom design getaways for you or your group and
be your host during your stay.
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Susan Borgersen Creative Holidays Nova Scotia RR#2 Mill Village Nova Scotia B0J 2H0 Canada
Telephone: 902 677 2899
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