Class Description

Sign up for Building a Mystery on April 16, Outlining Your Story on April 23, and Speaking of Dialogue on April 30 and received a $35 discount. (Click on the individual listings for more information.) All 3 classes will be recorded and the recording made available to all registered participants. Instructor bio: Howard Shrier is the author of six novels and one collection of stories, including four titles in the acclaimed Jonah Geller series. His debut novel Buffalo Jump, published by Random House/Vintage Canada in 2008, won the Crime Writers of Canada's award for best first novel. The sequel, High Chicago (2009), won the CWC award for best novel. Boston Cream received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and a rare five-star review in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, while Miss Montreal was shortlisted for another CWC award. Howard’s 2025 novel The American Zone, set during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, has been called “a masterpiece of historical crime fiction” by the Seaboard Review of Books. Howard has taught creative writing at the University of Toronto, Toronto Public Library, the San Miguel Writers Conference and Kingston Writers Festival, and runs his own online courses in the foundations of fiction.