This poetry workshop led by nationally 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 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. Bring what you like to write on, notebook or electronic — Jude has written her last six books on her phone!

Location: Room C215, UBC Robson Square

Type: Workshop

Facilitator: Jude Neale, Impromptu (Estasis Editions)

About The Facilitator

Jude Neale has written twelve collections of poetry. She is an opera singer, mentor, master educator (Prime Minister’s Award shortlist), poetry workshop organizer and facilitator,mother, grandmother and wife. She was first published when she was eight when she won a youth competition on travel on the CBC. Her book, A Quiet Coming of Light, was a finalist for the LCP Pat Lowther Award and her manuscript, Splendid in its Silence, won publication in the UK. Her poem, Blue Bowl, was finalist for the prestigious Irish Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Award. Jude’s 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. Because of her musical background she collaborated with violist, composer and visionary, Thomas RL Beckman, to write a poetic prose narrative for the three movement orchestrated suite, The St. Roch Suite. It was performed live by the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. She has been published widely internationally and nationally. Her forthcoming book this summer is a collaboration with the visual artist Nicholas Jennings and is called, Water Forgets Its Own Name (Ekstasis Editions).