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Our mission is to help anyone unlock their inner creative self in a safe, non-judgmental and encouraging environment.

About the Instructor

Patti Murphy is a writer and educator with over thirty years experience in the classroom. She is the author of The Kitchen Sink Sutra, The Date Square Dharma and The Spaghetti Supper Sangha, but has been writing stories, plays and articles ever since she could lay her hands on a pad of paper. She has written extensively for community newspapers and has published essays in The Globe and Mail, but creative non-fiction and stories about hope hold a special place in her heart.

She believes that with the right guidance, everyone can access their own inner writer. The key to this is providing a supportive and nurturing environment to explore and experiment, where feedback focuses solely on the strengths of the writing.

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“Patti is a wonderful educator. She is positive and knowledgeable. She loves the craft of writing and enthusiastically shares it with the class!”

“… I get as much out of the class vibe and encouragement as I do from Patti’s lesson content. Together they have sparked something in me that I didn’t know was (or could be) there.”

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So You Want to Write a Novel Webinar Series

Join us for So You Want to Write a Novel, the Webinar Series, a live, online series designed especially for beginners and aspiring writers. Across 13 stand-alone webinars, we’ll walk through every stage of writing a novel — from finding your first spark of inspiration to revising your finished manuscript. Each session dives into a key part of the storytelling process, including: idea development, building unforgettable characters and worlds, understanding story structure and genre, crafting vivid scenes and solving story problems, and revising a draft with confidence. You can join one, a few, or all 13 sessions — whatever fits your interests and schedule. Every 75-minute webinar includes practical writing exercises, creative inspiration, and a live Q&A with your instructor. Each session will be run twice so that you can pick a time that best suits you.

Bi-weekly Saturdays, January 10 – June 27, 2026
(11:00 am ET) and
Bi-weekly Tuesdays, January 13 – June 30, 2026
(7:00 pm ET)

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The Artist’s Way Creative Cluster

Weeks 1-6

Embark on a guided journey through Weeks 1 to 6 of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, A Spritual Path to Higher Creativity. Learn how to get the most out of your morning pages, garner ideas for artist dates, and empower and free your creativity.

Mondays, January 6 to February 27, 2025
(6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ET)

Finding Your Voice: Memoir Writing I

This six-week memoir writing course is designed to guide you through the process of discovering and developing your unique voice in the art of personal memoir.

January 8 – February 12, 2025
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. (ET)

“In order to make art, we must first make an artful life, a life rich enough and diverse enough to give us fuel.”

Julia Cameron

The Sound of Paper

“Why should we all use our creative power…? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate.”

Brenda Ueland

If You Want to Write

“There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

Martha Graham

to Agnes DeMille

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anaïs Nin

“Begin anywhere. Preferably right now.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

“Instructions for living a life./Pay attention./Be astonished./Tell about it.”

Mary Oliver

Sometimes

“In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.”

Twyla Tharp