Speaking

Samuel Martin earned his M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, where he worked with renowned novelist David Adams Richards. Martin published his M.A. creative project, the story collection This Ramshackle Tabernacle, with Breakwater in 2010, and that book went on to be a finalist for the BMO Winterset Award.

A tenured professor of Creative Writing in Iowa for eight years – before leaving the academy to teach writing at the high school level – Martin speaks on and leads interactive Creative Writing workshops in:

• Crime Writing
• The Short Story
• Novel Writing
• The Graphic Novel
• Fantasy, SF, & Speculative Fiction
• Essay Writing
• Art Writing