INSTRUCTORS

Dr. Carolyn Mamchur

Workshop designer and principal instructor/editor. Author of books, short stories, poems, articles and screenplays; Professor of writing process at Simon Fraser University; editor for Telefilm and CBC; consultant, program designer and editor for writing program for Women in the Director’s Chair, Hemmera Consulting, Weherhauser (formerly MacMillan Bloedel) CEO’s; has over 30 years of experience in writing, teaching writing and editing.

Dr. Mamchur will lead the workshop, select and adjudicate work and edit your work. She will work one-on-one with the participant selected as writer in residence.

Dr. Charles Scott

I am  an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University who loves to teach and work with students on writing. I do a lot of work with international students, both graduate and undergraduate and enjoy working with them and the hybrid identities they are able to form in straddling, transcending, and integrating multiple cultures. I also teach courses in curriculum and pedagogy, as well as philosophy of education. My research interests are in narrative writing, conceptions of dialogue and dialogical approaches in education, and in contemplative approaches in education. 

I am also an Associate Professor at City University of Seattle (in the Vancouver campus), where I coordinate an M.Ed. program in Leadership in Education as part of a closely-knit team that oversees programs in clinical counselling, school counselling, and educational leadership.

Slightly apart from my academic work, I enjoy hiking in the forests and mountains with my wife, photography, and, in winter, skiing anywhere, anytime. 

Ms. Linda Hegland

Editor-in-Chief.  Workshop administrator, editor, and adjudicator.

Author of short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry. Linda has been published in literary journals in North America, Sweden, Australia, and India.  She will work one-on-one with you during the workshop, and will adjudicate and edit work.