The Sage Hill Writing Experience is a renowned summer residential writing program that draws students from across Canada, offeringlearning opportunities for writers at varying stages of development in a unique environment in the beautiful Qu’Appelle Valley. Spring and summer programs provide writers with outstanding professional development opportunities at several levels in fiction, poetry and other creative writing…
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Sage Hill Spring Poetry Colloquium and Summer Writing Experience
When: May 7-20, 2010 Facilitator: John Barton Guest Poet: Barbara Klar Application Deadline: February 15, 2010 Sage Hill offers an intensive two-week working and critiquing retreat for published poets seeking to develop their craft and tune a manuscript. The pastoral reflective setting is ideal for such work. The colloquium will include a ‘wired’ follow-up. Writers…
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series Presents ANNE COMPTON AT UPEI
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000168 EndHTML:0000003840 StartFragment:0000000468 EndFragment:0000003823 Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series Contact: Dr. Richard Lemm – 566-0389, rlemm@upei.ca ANNE COMPTON AT UPEI Award-winning poet Anne Compton returns to her native PEI to read from her new book, Asking Questions Indoors and Out, on Tuesday, February 16, at 7:30 in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. Her…
Muses of the Night: Dreams & Writing
If we take the time to learn their language, we discover that every dream is a masterpiece of symbolic communication. The unconscious speaks in symbols, not to confuse us, but simply because that is its native idiom. —Robert Johnson Muses of the Night: Dreams & Writing Dreams are natural muses for creative writing. They are made…
Wanted: Readers/Artists for a Cause
We’re two Katimavik volunteers that are working with AIDS P.E.I and ARC to set up a benefit concert to raise money to create a drop-in centre for at risk youth in P.E.I We’re looking for readers/artists to perform for this cause! The concert is on Friday February 12 at 7:30pm at the Confederation Center. We’re…
Protecting Intellectual Properties
Cecile Klein of the Canadian Intellectual Properties Office will present on Feb. 9 between the hours of 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the Carriage House at Beaconsfield. The topic will be “Protecting Intellectual Properties”. There is no charge. As space is limited, please confirm your attendance ASAP. Please circulate to others to whom you…
Summit Studios runs humorous short story contest
Summit Studios, owned by Matt Jackson and his wife, is a Vancouver-based publishing company that publishes a series of Travel & Outdoor Humour anthologies. The first book in the series was called Mugged by a Moose, which was released in September 2006. Summit Studios is running a story contest to collect more travel and outdoor stories…
Two January Poetry Workshops
Poet and Teacher Beth E. Janzen will be offering two Saturday afternoon workshops in January. Details below. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We can never see the whole forest at one time, but the shifting light, the wild creatures, the intriguing paths, some barely visible among the foliage, lead us in, keep us wanting to go deeper into the heart of the…
CALL : Contributions for Edited Anthology
Deadline: Dec. 18 Latinas/os PRESENTES: Voice, Culture and Creativity in Nuestra (Our?) Canada. We are seeking submissions for an edited collection of Latina/o Canadian cultural work to be published in 2010 by Tightrope Books, under their new Zurita imprint and edited by Lorena M. Gajardo, a Latina and scholar of Latino/a Identity in Canada. This…
Calling All Amateur & Seasoned Maritime Playwrights
Calling All Amateur & Seasoned Maritime Playwrights Deadline: Feb. 28 Script Happens wants to showcase your talent. Submit your original, one-act script for a chance to present at annual Script Happens production. In preparation for another great season, Second Stage, a development wing of the Saint John Theatre Company, is looking for submissions for its…
CALL: La Macina di San Cresci, TUSCANY – artists in residency
OPEN CALL 2010 For artists in residency 2010 at La Macina di San Cresci, Chianti, Tuscany, Italy NO DEADLINE. This program is running all year Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 at La Macina di San Cresci. Located above Greve, in Chianti, in the heart of Tuscany, between two great cities of the…
Lilith Talent Search
Attention: Songwriters and musicians! Lilith is looking for the next best emerging female musicians across North America. Since its inception Lilith Fair has provided a stage solely for female solo-artists and female-fronted bands in order to celebrate music made by women. This year Lilith will give aspiring female artists the opportunity to perform a set…
The Writing Pool 