In this 2 hour workshop, you’ll learn the two main ingredients of compelling fiction and get a few tips to help kickstart a story. The workshop includes significant time for writing. Arrive with a blank page, and in a couple of hours, you’ll be covered in ink and deep in the zone.
Date: Sunday, October 5, 2025, 2-4 PM
Venue: Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University. (3rd floor, Queen Elizabeth II Library)
Register for free: on Eventbrite
This workshop is for writers of all levels. It will be especially useful to those who are writing creatively for the first time and anyone who is intimidated by a blank page. Please bring a pen, a notebook, and your imagination.
About the workshop facilitator:
Sharon Bala’s best-selling debut novel, The Boat People, won the 2020 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, was short listed for several awards, and is in translation in four languages. Sharon is the Creative Non-Fiction editor at Riddle Fence and a member of The Port Authority, a St. John’s writing group. Her second novel, Good Guys, will be published in January. Visit her at: sharonbala.com
Imagining History Writing Workshops are made possible by the Centre for Newfoundland Studies and WritersNL, with support from The Office of Public Engagement, Memorial University.
Please note: This workshop is open to the general public.