News & Events

Intro to Screenwriting Course- March 1-May10, 2008

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Praxis advisor Peter Behrens wins the G-G award

With his very first novel, The Law of Dreams, Peter Behrens has won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.

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"Writing Features: an Introduction"

Got an idea for a screenplay? Don't know how to start? Due to popular demand, Praxis will be offering an eight-week introduction to screenwriting course in the new year taught by veteran Michelle Adams.

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Spring submissions are all in

The deadline for the Spring Praxis competition is past and all the submissions are being organized for reading in the next few weeks. Please check back in the first week of February for news on the selections. We thank all participants for their hard work.

Spring 2007 Writing Topics

We will be launching the Praxis Spring 2007 Writing Series on some of the following topics:

• Adapting the three act structure to television mow's and series episodic writing.
• The new expectations of the Horror Genre.
• Setting your story in the right backdrop allowing what can be said to be seen.

If you have a topic you for consideration please e-mail us praxis@sfu.ca and we will see if we can include it.  More details to come in the next few weeks.