Part of the schedule of for the Windsor-Essex Jane’s Walk Festival 2025!

Connect to neighbourhood sights and invoke the senses to generate draft material. The purpose of this walk is to notice and note, share and connect, and, hopefully, use these impressions to activate/reinvigorate creative writing projects.

Registration is free, though limited! Signup here.

Learn about the structure of a poem and how technical elements function. From stanza to line to word to white space, writers will play with the words in the poem, reflect on them and make connections between form and function. Please bring multiple copies of the same poem to the workshop!

Cost is $25 and includes free beverages. Workshop is limited to 12 participants and is held at Balanced Life Wellness Centre in Essex. This course is part of the monthly Writers Assembly series. Check out future offerings by visiting BLWC’s website.

Please register ahead by contacting Michelle Weglarz.

Indigo St. Clair Shores in Tecumseh is hosting Poetry Live featuring performances from local writers during National Poetry Month. This free evening of spoken word will be held on Friday, April 25th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. I’ll be reading alongside friends Vanessa Shields, Em Roe, and Dom Baron. I will also have copies of my chapbook, Mayflies, for sale at the store!

The St. Clair Shores store is located at 194 Commercial Blvd. Special thanks to Ashley Steele for organizing this event, supporting local writers, and bringing more arts programming into our community.

—PLEASE NOTE COURSE WAS CANCELLED DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK IN SUMMER FOR NEW OFFERINGS AT FOREST GLADE—

This course focuses on contemplative reading as well as prompts for generating micro memoir, flash fiction, poetry and prose that will turn seemingly mundane moments pulled from life into expressions of art. We will also collaborate and share work drafted in class, participating in informal critiques to learn what resonates with readers. First-time writers and experienced authors are welcome.

Ages 16 and up. Cost is $68 CAD through the City of Windsor Recreation & Education program.

Classes are every Monday evening, in person at Forest Glade Community Centre, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for the period of March 24 to May 26, 2025. Please note there is no class on Monday, April 7 and Monday, May 19, 2025.

Register online here.

—PLEASE NOTE COURSE WAS CANCELLED DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK IN SPRING FOR NEW OFFERINGS AT FOREST GLADE—

This course focuses on contemplative reading as well as prompts for generating micro memoir, flash fiction, poetry and prose that will turn seemingly mundane moments pulled from life into expressions of art. We will also collaborate and share work drafted in class, participating in informal critiques to learn what resonates with readers. First-time writers and experienced authors are welcome.

Ages 16 and up. Cost is $71 CAD through the City of Windsor Recreation & Education program.

Classes are every Monday evening, in person at Forest Glade Community Centre, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for the period of January 20 to March 3, 2025. (Please note there is no class on Monday, February 17 in observance of Family Day.)

Register online here.

—PLEASE NOTE COURSE WAS CANCELLED DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK IN SPRING FOR NEW OFFERINGS AT FOREST GLADE—

This course focuses on prompts for generating micro memoir, flash fiction, poetry and prose that will turn moments pulled from life into expressions of art. We will also collaborate and share work drafted in class to learn what resonates with readers.

Ages 12 to 15. Cost is $42.50 CAD through the City of Windsor Recreation & Education program.

Classes are every Monday evening, in person at Forest Glade Community Centre, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for the period of January 20 to March 3, 2025. (Please note there is no class on Monday, February 17 in observance of Family Day.)

Register online here.

On Sunday, December 8, I’ll be participating in a literary event at Mackenzie Hall that “takes its inspiration from the 1863 Salon des Refusés.” It’s a celebration of writing that was initially rejected as well as a celebration of marginalized communities who often feel rejected by mainstream society. I’ll be joined by Kate Hargreaves, Walter Petrichyn, MA|DE, and many others.

We’ll present works of poetry or prose that have been rejected either a literary journal or competition. After the reading, an open mic event will take place for audience members to share their own rejected writing.

Special thanks to Wayne Johnson for organizing. For further details, check out the website here.

Join me on Sunday, October 27 for a panel discussion with local authors about our publishing experiences and tips. Space is limited to twenty participants and tickets are $40, which includes refreshments and a post-panel author mingle. Register ahead by contacting organizer Vanessa Shields.

I’ll be joined by fiction authors Anne Baldo, Elly Blake, Ainslie Hogarth, and Carlie Jean Poulin for an in-depth conversation about agents, and traditional and self-publishing models.

Indigo St. Clair Shores in Tecumseh is hosting Poetry Live featuring performances from local writers. This free evening of spoken word will be held on Friday, July 26 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. I am honoured to be one of the featured poets and will be sharing fifteen minutes work of material from my in-progress full-length manuscript, tentatively titled Stinging Nettle. I will also have copies of my chapbook, Mayflies, for sale (Finishing Line Press, 2020).

The St. Clair Shores store is located at 194 Commercial Blvd. Special thanks to Ashley Steele for organizing this event, supporting local writers, and bringing more arts programming into our community.

Windsor Public Library is set to release the fourth installment of its literary journal, Pagination, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. This event will take place at Chapter Two Brewing Company, located in Walkerville, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The “Border Issue” features writers from Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan who will be on hand reading pieces at the celebration. My poem, “The Mystery Zone,” will be included in the mag, and I’ll be reading live at the event as well. Join us for this free evening of spoken word and local art.

Special thanks to Dave Konstantino, Pagination’s editor and collage maven, for putting together this collection of voices in print and in person. Read back issues of Pagination here.

A one-hour virtual reading with live Q&A on the Association for Writers and Writing Program’s (AWP) YouTube channel. Register here.

A two-hour non-stop dance party on Zoom featuring electronic, disco, indie rock, dance, pop, and hip-hop.

The fall 2020 virtual reading series kicks off with featured presentations from Cassandra Caverhill (poetry) and Angela Kramer (fiction) on YouTube.

The winter 2020 reading series kicks off with featured presentations from Cassandra Caverhill (poetry) and Angela Kramer (fiction).

Join the first-year poetry cohort of BGSU’s Creative Writing program for a featured reading followed by an open mic.

Participants should bring at least one poem to read/perform, open-mic style. Cassandra Caverhill, Matthew Miller, and other participants will provide feedback and help hone the performance process. Readers need not have been present at the prior session to participate.

With various critical lenses and a dynamic workshop, poets Matthew Miller and Cassandra Caverhill will examine the power of setting and situation as applied to poetry, discovering how constraint informs artistic decisions at the microphone. Included are techniques for preparation, style, and execution.