Ted Dyck: Was dropped into the short-grass prairie within sight of the South Saskatchewan River breaks on approx. 03.09.39. Has studied at and graduated from a number of colleges and universities: M.Ed. (U of SK 1964); M.A. (Math. Logic, U of Minn. 1973); PhD (English, U of Man. 1988). Has taught at all of the above plus Red Deer College (AB), University of Marburg (GER), Aurora College (Inuvik, NT). At times and in places, has been writer (5 books of poetry, some 100 periodical pieces, 3 edited anthologies, 1 collection of non-fiction pieces, etc.); editor (GRAIN, TUSAYAKSAAT, TRANSITION); scholar; mentor; businessman; professor; pseudo-hermit; instructor; brush salesman; ranch-hand; and so on. Writes in a number of genres -- poetry, fiction, essay -- and operates a writing, editing, and work-shopping service called WorDoctor. Avoids all cliques, clubs, schools, groups, and cults that would have him. But has his other interests -- fly-fishing, cross-country skiing, snooker, Bach and Gould, the classical guitar, cognac. Recently (2007, 2008-2009) was writer-in-residence with the Festival of Words (Moose Jaw). In 2011-2012, directed a "Writing for Your Life Program" for CMHA(SK). Director Writing For Mental Health Workshops at Okimah Ohci Healing Lodge 2019-2021. Currently edits TRANSITION, a magazine for, by, and about persons with lived experience of mental illness. Lives, writes, fishes, etc. in or near Eastend SK. [Full bio www.wordoctor.ca]
Workshops Offered
Advanced Narrative Technique
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
Detailed study of the major aspect of contemporary narratology, F.I.D; also one other. e.g., character - type vs. individual, ., time, etc.
Format: work from mss pre-submitted.
Syllabus: provided, including selections from pre-submitted mss for particular study.
Focus: adapted to needs of particular group.
Advanced Poetics
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
Detailed study of one specific aspect of contemporary poetry: e.gs., metaphor; figures; lineation; etc..
Format: work from mss pre-submitted.
Syllabus: provided, including selections from pre-submitted mss for particular study.
Focus: adult; adapted to needs of particular group.
Fee required.
Character
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
How the notion of Self has changed from classical times (I speak, therefore I am), through the Renaissance (I think, therefore I am), to today (I twitter, therefore I am), and the implications for the creation of character in fiction.
Format: work from mss pre-submitted.
Syllabus: provided, including selections from pre-submitted mss for particular study.
Focus: Adult; adapted to needs of particular group.
Fee required.
Poetry Basics
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
Introduction to verse, figure, and form in contemporary poetry.
Format: work from mss pre-submitted.
Syllabus: provided, including selections from pre-submitted mss for particular study.
Focus: adult; adapted to needs of particular group.
Fee required.
Prose Basics
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
Introduction to elements of prose writing (fiction & non-fiction): setting, character, story/plot, narration, etc.
Format: work from mss pre-submitted.
Syllabus: provided, including selections from pre-submitted mss for particular study.
Focus: Adult; adapted to needs of particular group.
Fee required.
The Sentence & Style
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
A study of the sentence:
1. structure (the logic of subject / verb / complement);
2. style(classically, low / medium / high); today, additive / subordinative / satiric / reflexive);
3. applications to first and last sentences.
Format: work from mss pre-submitted.
Syllabus: provided, including selections from pre-submitted mss for particular study.
Focus: Adult; adapted to needs of particular group.
Fee required.
Write Mad Workshop
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
Celebrates the writer’s lived experience of mental illness by using it in her/his writing to generate (1) content (Kay Parley’s Inside the Mental (2016), memoir); (2) theme (Lenore Rowntree’s Cluck (2016), novel); and especially (3) illness-specific techniques (Merlin Mathews’s “First person plural” (2016), article using D.I.D. as narrative technique).
Writing the Self
Group Size: 5-10
Ages:
Introduction to writing as therapy:
1. the plastic, first-person self; 2. the change from first- to third-person narrator; 3. metaphors of the Self
Format: syllabus-based, technically oriented, and therapeutically sensitive
Publications
Cutthroats & Other Poems
Turnstone, 2014, Publication
The Revised History of the Guitar in Turnhill
Ms, 2007,
Apostrophes to Myself
Oolichan, 1987,
Mossbank Canon
Turnstone, 1983,
Pisscat Congs
Brick, 1982,
Odpoems
Coteau, 1978,
Periodicals
Transition
Category: Newspaper/Magazine/Trade Journal
Genres
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Services
Academic/Research Writing
Business/Corporate/Government Writing
- Grant Applications and Reports
Editing
- Copyediting
- Developmental/Project Editing
- Proofreading
- Substantive/Structural Editing
Teaching/Instruction
- Professional Development Workshops
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