Led by an award-winning writer and experienced teacher, this hands-on workshop will guide students in the art of writing unique and surprising metaphors in poetry and prose. We will also examine metaphors in published texts to see what makes them shine.

This fun and engaging class is open to seasoned writers as well as those who are new to the practice. Come join the circle!

$20 (or pay-what-you-can), with light snacks and beverages included
215 Baker Road, Salt Spring Island
3-5pm

About Jen Currin

Jen Currin’s most recent book is Disembark, a collection of stories which focuses on queer lives (House of Anansi, 2024). Hider/Seeker: Stories was a finalist for a ReLit Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023); School (Coach House, 2014), which was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award; and The Inquisition Yours (Coach House, 2010), which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and was a finalist for a LAMBDA, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award.

Currin lives on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwikwetlem, and Kwantlen Nations in New Westminster, BC and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. They are currently at work on a collection of form poems and a new collection of short fiction that marries the marvelous with the real.

Jen joins Paper Covers Rock as our November 2026 Writer-in-Residence.