Impromptu, with Jude Neale

This poetry workshop, led by nationally and internationally acclaimed author, Jude Neale, is for novices as well as experienced writers. It will ignite your imagination and free your creativity through writing prompts, games, and exercises. Everyone will come away with poems and a deeper connection with language. There will be lots of time to simply share your work with the rest of the group. Jude is known for her fun and interactive workshops and is looking forward to writing with each of you. Come and amaze yourself! Bring what you like to write on: a notebook or electronic device. ( I have written my last 9 books on my phone!).   Guaranteed poems and fun!

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About Jude Neale

Jude Neale has written 14 collections of poetry, and is an opera singer, mentor, educator, workshop organizer and facilitator, mother, grandmother, and wife. Her book, A Quiet Coming of Light, was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award and her manuscript, Splendid in its Silence, won publication in the UK. Jude’s poem, Blue Bowl, was finalist for the prestigious Irish Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Award, and her poem, Emptiness in the Garden, was chosen by Britain’s Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, to ride the buses in the Channel Islands for a year. Jude frequently collaborates with artists from many disciplines, bringing her command and sensitivity of language to their communal creations. Notable among these is the 2018 poetry collection Cantata in Two Voices with Bonnie Nish, and Where We Stood with visual artist Jane Kenyon. Her most recent book, Gathered in Pockets, has just been published by Ekstasis Editions with Richard Olafson in Victoria.