Category: Ads and Miscellaneous Announcements

Winter Retreat for Writers

The Saskatchewan Writers Guild will be holding a winter retreat at St Peter’s Abbey February 4-25, 2011. Cost is $275 per week for Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and CARFAC SASK members and $350 per week for non-members. Deadline for receipt of applications is 4:30 pm, Friday, November 30, 2010. Please send completed applications to: Saskatchewan Writers’…

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Animal Anthology Submissions Wanted

ANIMAL ANTHOLOGY: Call for submissions for an anthology about animals: Have you had a significant relationship or encounter with an animal (domestic or wild)? The editor seeks thoughtful literary narrative non-fiction that tells an engaging story of an animal-human relationship and also offers insight into themes such as animal nature, human nature, the nature of…

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Support the Beacon Award

Dear Friend of the Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature Are you tired of shallow or skewed media coverage that leaves you feeling uninformed about the experiences and real issues of oppressed people? In February the Beacon Social Justice Literary Society launched the Beacon Award for unpublished novels with a social justice theme. We believe…

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News from WritingRaw.com

WritingRaw.com is going to scare the BOO out of you a second time! All of us here at WritingRaw.com would like to thank the generous support we received when we put out the call for submissions for our Halloween issue. Who knew that there were so many of you out there with a dark side…

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UPDATE FROM CWAG*

UPDATE FROM CWAG* Canadian Writers Against the Google settlement *Note:  I’ve tried my best to limit this email to interested people. If you have received this inadvertently or would like your address off the list, please let me know. Hello Everybody — If you have any questions about the following, please contact me. As many of…

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A CELEBRATION OF WORDS TO FIRE THE SPIRIT: Victoria Literary Festival

A CELEBRATION OF WORDS TO FIRE THE SPIRIT! In just two week’s time, the village of Victoria By the Sea is to be host to Prince Edward Island’s first ever literary festival on the South Shore! It will be a summer celebration of poetry and storytelling, featuring all three of Prince Edward Island’s poet laureates: David Helwig,…

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Authorforsale.com

Author For Sale.com    The Showcase for authors where the publisher comes looking for you! http://www.authorforsale.com One of our Showcase authors asked us to forward the above link to you, ideally for shared circulation with any of the aspiring authors within your writer’s group. Many authors, whether currently in early stages of contemplating an idea for…

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The Malahat Review 2010-2011 Prizes

The Malahat Review’s 2010 Creative Non-Fiction Prize Deadline: August 1, 2010 (postmarked) Prize: $1000 CAD Submit one piece of creative non-fiction between 2000 and 3000 words in length. Entry fee: $35 CAD for residents of Canada $40 USD for residents of the United States $45 USD for entries from elsewhere (entry fee includes a one…

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Kent Stetson writing course

To all PEI Writers: During the month of August, 2010, Governor General Literary Award-winning playwright and novelist Kent Stetson offers his internationally acclaimed 16 hour course in The Character Generated Story in Drama and Prose fiction live and in person to PEI writers at all levels of their practice. The course will take place in Charlottetown, Mondays and Thursdays between 5:00pm and 7:00 pm from…

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CAPE BRETON STAGE COMPANY SEEKING SCRIPTS

For production in their 2010/11 season A non-profit theatre co-op, The Cape Breton Stage Company has been producing original, local work in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality since 2007.  This season, we will produce three plays in downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia.  We welcome submissions from playwrights with any level of experience. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Original, preferably…

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