by nicolebreit | Dec 20, 2019 | creative writing online course, creativity, Uncategorized
I love the work I do, helping brave truth tellers write their stories. And I love celebrating when writers are recognized for the work they produce in one of my classes — when they get their first acceptance with a journal, their name on a contest shortlist, or...
by nicolebreit | Aug 7, 2017 | cnf outliers, creative writing, creative writing online course, flash essay, hermit crab essay, lyric essay, prose poem
“As a fiction writer, this course saved me years of experimentation. My knowledge and practice with CNF outlier forms grew exponentially each week with the support of comments on my work that I could actually use. Nicole is a gifted teacher, writer. She is a life long...
by nicolebreit | May 11, 2017 | creative writing, creative writing online course, hermit crab essay, prose poem
“Your fear must not be allowed to make decisions about creativity, passion, inspiration, dreams. Your fear doesn’t understand these things, and so it makes the most boring possible decisions about them.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic:...
by nicolebreit | Mar 20, 2017 | cnf outliers, creative writing online course, flash essay, hermit crab essay, lyric essay, prose poem
“I wouldn’t allow fear to get in the way. Because it’s fear, after all, that kills us.” ~ Tori Amos, on the writing of Little Earthquakes CNF writers are brave. We share personal stories presented as truth, not disguised as poetry or fiction. When we write our...
by nicolebreit | Feb 17, 2017 | cnf outliers, creative writing online course, flash essay
“I absolutely loved the first lesson, such a wonderful overview. It really helped me to contextualize some of the reading that I’ve absolutely loved over the past few years, and to start to deconstruct the elements of the essays that resonated with...
I'm Nicole Breit, an award winning poet and essayist residing on Canada’s gorgeous Sunshine Coast, the traditional territory of the Skwx̱wú7mesh people.
I'm also a creative writing teacher whose passion is to help writers discover new ways to shape their memories into well-crafted narratives.