From Idea to Impact: The Fiction Writer's Toolkit with Ace Baker

Join Ace Baker in this interactive workshop to find ways of bringing more impact to your fiction. From idea generation through ways to flesh out story ideas and integrate technique that gets attention, this workshop will provide you with a path to publication. There will be plenty of opportunities to test out techniques you may never have heard of before -- and Bowen Island is the perfect setting to do it! Using pen on paper or fingers on keyboard, enjoy the opportunity to test out these techniques with new or existing writing of yours and share your experiments with others if you so choose. Learn about LLS, ++-, integrating sound and poetry into your prose, and much, much more to catch the eyes of contest judges, editors, agents, and publishers.

About Ace Baker

Ace Baker is a writer, poet, and writing coach from Vancouver, Canada. His short story, "Victory Girl," won the Storyteller Award, and his poetry has won the SIWC, PNWA, and Magpie awards, among others. Both his prose and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards. He has taught creative writing for more than 20 years and has seen hundreds of those he works with publish poetry, flash fiction, short stories, personal essays, memoirs, and novels (including award-winners). A collection of his short stories, How to Make a Killing Jar, is now available.