Literary Arts Instructors
Eileen Kernaghan has been involved with the arts in Burnaby since the mid-sixties, and for over a decade has taught Writer’s Workshop: Manuscripts at the Shadbolt Centre. Her seventh fantasy novel, The Alchemist’s Daughter, was a finalist for the 2005 Sheila A Egoff Children’s Literature prize. She also won the 2001 Aurora Award for the best Canadian speculative novel in English with her fantasy story The Snow Queen. Eileen’s newest novel Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural was released in 2008 and a new edition of The Sarsen Witch was released in August 2007. For more information check www.eileenkernaghan.ca
Class: Manuscripts
Class: Manuscripts
Shauna Paull is a poet, educator and community advocate. She completed an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC in 1999. Since then, she has led creative writing workshops at the Shadbolt Centre, and at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her collection of poems, roughened in undercurrent, was published by Leaf Press in April 2008. She is currently at work on a book of essays and a set of new poems entitled blood swallow.
Classes: Creative Writing, Poetry Studio
Robin Thomson
Robin Thompson completed his art education at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and moved to BC to pursue his dream of drawing his own brand of comic books. He has formed his own publishing identity and worked on indie titles such as Knuckles Malone, Outnumbered and Captain Space Man. This inspired him to begin his own drawing programs for young artists. His workshops have reached community centres and elementary schools throughout Vancouver, including the annual "Word On The Street" literary festival. He also teaches graphic novels at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on Granville Island.
