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  • About
    • What is Gertrude’s Writing Room?
    • The Space
    • About Vanessa Shields
    • PRESS
  • The Team
    • Owner & Staff
    • OUR AMAZING TEACHERS
  • Hours & Contact
  • Writing Retreats
  • WRITING OFFERINGS
    • Workshops
    • Classes
    • Creativity Guidance
    • Editing
    • Mentoring
    • EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
  • POLICIES
    • Registration & Payment Information
    • Policies – Payment, Cancellation, Confidentiality
    • Other Important Things to Know
  • CHAPBOOK & SUBMISSIONS
  • For Publishers & Authors
  • G[W]RIP – Incentive Program
  • Gift Certificates
  • Events

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Writer. Mother. Lover.

Cover Reveal!

By: Vanessa Shields February 7, 2021
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We are thrilled to reveal the cover for our upcoming chapbook anthology ‘LOVE Words Gathered Volume 2’. We are sending out proofs and will soon send the files to print! Purchasing details to come! Congratulations to all those included in this anthology. We did it – we wrote about love and now we’re spreading it!

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Nurture Your Creativity

By: Vanessa Shields January 4, 2021
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The new year has folded over us with a wave of warmer temperatures. There’s mud everywhere, and the trees look content and the skies are deep and wide with greys. The weather, the skies, the trees…seem to be in the ‘in-between’ with us as we continue to hone our patience. We are in the chest…

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Our Promise To Every Writer

Gertrude’s Writing Room is a space dedicated to your creative writing growth. We promise to deliver each workshop, class and mentoring session with an open heart and a passionate, playful spirit. Our goal is to provide a safe and supportive space that will give freedom to your words.

Gertrude Stein

Our Namesake

Gertrude’s Writing Room is named in honour and spirit for American writer Gertrude Stein who opened her heart, her mind and her home to artists from around the world in Paris, France in the 1920s & 30s.

Quotable Stein

“…the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”

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1899 Niagara Street

The Stable Yard at the Coach House

Willistead Park

N8Y 1K3

Canada

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Phone: 519-999-2314

Email: shieldsvanessa@gmail.com

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