Join PRPL’s Writer in Residence, Johnny MacRae for a workshop jam-packed with prompts steering folks towards the alternate (and funny!) realities suggested by typos in public signage. Drop-in. PRPL’s […]
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WIR 2023 Stick ‘Em with the Pointy End
What happens when you can write using only one- or two-syllable words? Drawing on both Johnny MacRae’s lifelong obsession with Tolkien’s writing and George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English […]
WIR 2023 visits Young Writers’ Group
Youth 10+ are invited to a special session of Young Writers Group with PRPL’s Writer in Residence Johnny MacRae. Interact, create and engage in this fun and informal writing group! […]
WIR 2023 Poems and Memoirs on Texada
Spoken word artist Johnny MacRae will give a performance of a selection of his poems and will discuss how to find prompts from objects in your daily life that become […]
WIR 2023 Finding Memoirs in Objects
PRPL’s Writer in Residence, Johnny MacRae will discuss how personal objects from our lives can become vehicles for our personal stories. He will also examine the impact our understanding of […]