White Pine 2024 Nominee.
White Raven Selection Winner
Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play Nominee.
Second City Award For Outstanding Comedy Winner.
Publishing Triangle Nominee
Booking Rates: $250 for one session, $200 for any additional sessions. A travel fee of $0.50/km if outside Toronto. Virtual visit rates negotiable.
Curtis Campbell is a novelist and playwright based out of Toronto. His novels include Dragging Mason County and the upcoming Lying, Stealing, and Other Ways to Save the Planet.
Writing Workshops for Middle School and High School
Intro to Playwriting
This workshop teaches the basics of playwriting based on my own practice, and gives students the tools to begin developing their own.
Intro To Creative Writing for Short Stories
This workshop teaches the basics of prose writing through the building blocks of the six W’s. By the end of the workshop, each student will have the building blocks of their short story.
Writing Character Voice
A workshop on writing in the first person, how to develop the voice of your character, how to begin developing your writing style, and how you can begin putting this on the page.
Dialogue
A practical workshop focussed on how dialogue works for both novels and plays, its use to convey character and plot, and how to develop dialogue consistent with the tone and style of the piece you are writing. We will write and share work for discussion.
Writing About Ourselves
A workshop based around writing about yourself! In memoir, journal, fiction and nonfiction. I believe that everyone is a writer. People often say that they have nothing to write about, but we all have the ability to write about ourselves. This workshop is about putting yourself on the page using memory, identity, geography, imagination and site-specific practices to discover that you’re a writer too.
School Visits
Dragging Mason County
Discussion of the White Pine nominated novel, and the issues explored within. Discussion topics include LGBTQIA+ youth issues, friendship and chosen family, allyship, homophobia and transphobia, theatre and drag, social media, and gender expression. For any class or club who have read the book.
LGBTQ+ Student Group Visit
A presentation and facilitated discussion with your school’s LGBTQ+ student group to discuss the past, present and future of LGBTQIA+ identities in Canada. This discussion is aimed at helping LGBTQIA+ students locate themselves within Canada’s queer context, while discussing healthy ways to create a positive space for all LGBTQ+ students in their school.
Talk To An Author and Playwright
An engaging Q+A about the literary and theatre industries with a particular interest in discussing how students can begin developing, or continue developing their own artistic practice.
These workshops can be performed in a single classroom, or with merged classrooms.
The ideal group for writing workshops would be smaller, but I can make larger groups work just as well if there are a few staff members present.
A microphone would be great to have if we are meeting in a gym or cafeteria.
Workshops will always change by school and group, so I’m happy to customize and adjust based on your needs.
