For those writing stage, film and/or television drama.

In the new format, we'll do more work in a shorter period of time.  How?  There'll be more between-session assignments than before, allowing more live, guided group assessment when we meet on line (via Skype voice only). We'll spend about the same amount of time re-examining basic craft as before... fifteen minutes per two hour session.

The cost has been reduced to $1540.00.  See MasterPlayWorks Craft Works for more information.

For writers of prose fiction; short story, novel, fictive memoir, graphic novels, etc.

The same alterations to the course structure as those outlined above apply. The course content remains largely unchanged. More between-session assignments will allow more live, on-line time to hear and comment on each other's work.

Prose Saturday's new format will better suit those of you who have already decided which direction you wish to follow.

The cost of Prose Saturdays is $1,540.00 Canadian. See MasterPlayWorks Book Works,Text Works  and Craft Works for more information.

Kent Stetson, C. M., is a Governor General's Literary Award Laureate, as well as a Member of the Order of Canada.  The Prince Edward Island-born playwright, director and novelist developed as a dramatist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before moving to Montreal in 1989, where he became a full-time writer.  His GG-winning tragedy in three acts for fifteen men, "The Harps of God," a work which raised the bar for Canadian play-writing to a new level, is said to be the single best play ever written about Canada. (Montreal Gazette, 2005)  Mr. Stetson recently published his first work of prose fiction, "The World Above the Sky."  Of the novel, former CNN producer/anchor, and critic for The Village Voice, Porter Anderson said: “One welcome, hard fact is that The World Above the Sky is Stetson's debut as a novelist.  Stetson... who's no slouch in the dreaming department, may in fact remind some here of a latter-day J.R.R. Tolkien. ... The World Above the Sky charts an arduous journey through Nature-gone-unnatural ...  The reddened sands and foaming seas of his constructs churn into a phosphorescent cosmos of grace.”  This first-contact novel set in 1398 on the east coast of present-day Canada is the first in a trilogy associating First Nations and European cosmologies.  The Sky World trilogy is conceived as a template for observing the blended contemporary Canadian consciousness.  Mr. Stetson's work as mentor, educator and arts activist takes him across Canada and abroad.  “He remains an inspiration for writers, actors and artistic leaders in Canada and internationally.”  (OC Citation, Rideau Hall, 2007)