Gail offers readings and writing workshops for many organizations, and will sculpt a presentation to suit your needs.
Book club and private writing group events on Zoom are free. Honorariums for library events and public writing workshops vary from $200 to $400 depending on workshop length and nature of the funding. Funding for events may be available through TWUC, of which Gail is a member, with the National Public Readings Program.
For more, contact Gail's office at books@gailanderson-dargatz.ca
Here's a sample of writing workshops that Gail offers:
Our fears can stop us from finishing a book -- or even starting it. We may feel we need to stick to writing only what we know, and write from personal experience, but then worry about what Mom will think. And we so often avoid our protagonist’s conflicts, for the same reasons we avoid our own. The result: passive protagonists and wandering storylines.
Author and writing coach Gail Anderson-Dargatz will draw from more than twenty years of experience as a writer, teacher and developmental editor to explore the many ways we avoid conflict in our projects and our writing lives, and offer solutions that will help kickstart your writing and help you develop your project to the fullest.
Bring a 2000-word sample of your manuscript to an online or in-person meet-and-critique event with award-winning author and writing coach Gail Anderson-Dargatz. Ask those pressing questions about craft or the publishing industry in this quick 20-minute session.
Work independently and at your own pace as you learn how to put together the building blocks of fiction. Great for newbies and emerging writers.
Not your average blue pencil session, this consultation with Gail is a full workshop. Book at any time.
Gail's flagship course. In this one-on-one, private, four-month online mentorship, Gail will guide you as you put together your fiction project.
For writers with a complete draft. Gail digs deep into your manuscript's big picture story elements -- themes, story goals, conflicts and structure, character arcs, pacing, point of view, and dialogue -- to help you develop your project to the fullest.
Meet Gail for a 20-minute Zoom session to get a sample edit or discuss which one of Gail's services is right for you.
Alpha and beta readers give feedback on a manuscript from a reader’s perspective. Move your project forward with this affordable service.
Gail offers library and book club reading events as well as writing workshops for organizations and private groups.
This week-long writing retreat in the Shuswap region of British Columbia is timed to coincide with the sockeye run on the Adams River, a natural wonder.
Gail's novels have been national and international bestsellers and two have been short-listed for the Giller Prize, among other awards. She works with writers from around the world on her online teaching forums.