SPARKS FLY
creative retreats
SPARKS FLY creative retreats are led by inspiring teachers in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Explore a wonderful part of the world while learning from skilled and supportive instructors. Regardless of your level of expertise — whether you’re working on your first novel or short story, plugging away on draft three of a screenplay, changing genres, or just contemplating getting creative for the first time — we have a retreat for you. Explore this gorgeous UNESCO world heritage site. Connect with new people. Delve into your imagination. Create!
OUR UPCOMING
CREATIVE RETREATS
in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
BEGINNERS SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP
WITH RONALDA JONES
in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Do you have an idea you think would make an excellent film or TV show? Screenwriting 101 will help you hone your story-telling skills and bring that idea to life. In this five-day beginners screenwriting workshop, you’ll learn about character development, plotting, structure and pacing. You’ll also learn how to construct an effective log-line and, very importantly, how to pitch your idea to producers and broadcasters.
OUR 2023–24
INSTRUCTORS
Allegra Huston
Allegra Huston is the author of Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found; novel A Stolen Summer; and two guides for writers: How to Edit and Be Edited and How to Read for an Audience (with James Navé). She is also a contributor to the anthology One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us, edited by Erica Heller. She teaches memoir workshops internationally.
Hester Schofield
Hester Schofield is based in Bridport, Dorset, UK. She is an award-winning visual artist and filmmaker who has exhibited at the ICA and Lisson Gallery in London, the Laing Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Hester is also a writer of film, television and fiction. She combines these skills in her workshop, Developing Your Unique Creative Voice.
Paul A. Teolis
Paul A. Teolis is an award-winning photographer known for his Antarctic and travel photography, which has taken him to more than seventy countries on six continents. In 2012, he designed and launched the Photographer-in-Residence program on G Adventures’ Expedition, leading workshops in the Polar regions, Africa and South America.
Ronalda Jones
Ronalda Jones’s career began as an acclaimed film actress and theater director. As a writer for film and television, she has had a number of screenplays optioned by both producers and broadcasters. She has taught the art of pitching, development and screenwriting at Humber’s Graduate Program for Writing, as well as producing for film and television.