Service Description

The tarot has been a rich and endlessly inspiring source of creative inspiration for centuries. While we often focus on its power as a future-telling or psychological development tool, here we will unlock the tarot’s ability to guide our creative development and writing process. This two week generative writing workshop, open to all levels of experience, will begin by firmly grounding us in our senses before taking us on a journey through the tarot via generative exercises, timed prompts and direct engagement with the cards themselves. We will each choose a tarot guide to guide our writing for the class, and we will build creative community by sharing our work. Please bring a notebook and pen. Tarot deck is recommended but not mandatory. About your instructor: Laura Maija Clarke is the author of Decline of the Animal Kingdom (ECW Press), which was included on the Globe and Mail and the National Post’s Top Books of the Year and praised as “a truly impressive and startling debut collection, dense and elegant” (Winnipeg Free Press) and a “mischievous, fabulist debut collection that blurs the lines between the literal and allegorical" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). She has published poetry, fiction and criticism in the National Post, Hazlitt, Toronto Life, PRISM International, Prairie Fire and Grain. She is a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and has received numerous grants for her writing projects from Canada Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. She holds a Master’s in English with a specialization in creative writing from University of Toronto.