Calgary Young Writers Conference

I spent Saturday in the brilliant chaos that is the Calgary Young Writers Conference. Fortunately, my host Kristen and I figured out a back route to our room, so we didn’t have to swim in the sardine can getting back and forth from the library where the writers hang out.

We created a wizard disguised as Kristen, and an alien who ate, well, pretty much everything. Then the kids wrote their own stories. I was impressed with how hard they worked, heads down, frantically scribbling out their notes in the too-little time we had.

I spoke to other writers who had just as much fun, cartooning on post-it notes and writing about volcano cats. I love the wild creativity that emerges at events like this.

Maureen