A Trip Through Time & Terroir: A Sensory Writing Workshop

Stretch your imagination in this hands-on workshop for all skill levels with award-winning author K.A. Wiggins.

Stretch your imagination and hone your skills with this hands-on workshop for beginner through to advanced writers with award-winning author and experienced creative educator K.A. Wiggins!

We’ll take a tour of the past by way of our five (. . .or six?) senses, experimenting with tools and techniques to bring what we’re seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, hearing (and encountering across the decades?) alive on the page while we explore the Parksville Museum site.

Bring a hardback notebook and something to jot down your ideas as we explore and come ready to test your skills, immerse your senses in the wonders of our magical setting, and share your own insights! (Advisory: dress for the weather and wear walking shoes. Light mobility required on paved or cleared, at-grade paths. Accommodations may be possible for those using mobility aides.)

About K.A. Wiggins:

K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) writes award-winning speculative fiction that explores the tangled webs of society, environment, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic. Best known for “eco-apocalypse + monsters in dystopian Vancouver” YA fantasy series Threads of Dreams, her upcoming series pivots to fantasy-flavoured romantic suspense, and her celebrated short fiction appears in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror, Lightspeed Magazine, and Strange Horizons, among many other leading fiction markets. She makes frequent appearances at regional and international conferences and festivals as a public speaker and workshop leader and spends her days with books on the traditional unceded territory of the K’omoks and Pentlatch peoples, leading the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society and the Magic & Mayhem Island SFF/H Writers, teaching with the Creative Writing for Children Society, and working as a school library tech, and when she's not writing.

Find her and her work at kawiggins.com