About the Course
Who Am I? Finding Your Writer Voice
Instructor: Sally Ito
Wednesday, March 4
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. CST
10:00 PST / 11:00 MST / 12:00 CST (includes SK) / 1:00 EST / 2:00 AST
In this introductory workshop, we'll write about ourselves in prose and poetry to discover what form best suits our voices.
Access to the recording of this class will be sent to all who register.
Photo credit: Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
Your Instructor
Sally Ito, BFA, MA
Sally Ito, BFA (Creative Writing), M.A. (English) is a writer and translator who lives in Winnipeg, Treaty One Treaty, ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Dakota and Dene people and the homeland of the Métis Nation. She is a creative writing instructor at Canadian Mennonite University. Sally is the author of four books of poetry, Frogs in the Rain Barrel (1996), Season of Mercy (1999), Alert to Glory (2011), and Heart’s Hydrography (2022). She has also published a collection of short stories called Floating Shore in 1998 and is perhaps best known for her 2018 memoir The Emperor’s Orphans about the 4,000 Japanese Canadians who were repatriated to Japan during World War II. You can learn more about Sally by visiting these websites: https://www.cmu.ca/about/faculty/574 and https://writersunion.ca/member/sally-ito