The Canadian Children’s Book Centre is looking for authors and/or illustrators with new children’s books being released in 2010 and Spring 2011 who are interested in touring schools, libraries, bookstores and community centres, outside of their home province, during TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2011. The next Book Week tour will run from Saturday, April 30…
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CALL: Ranters, Ravers and Raconteurs
CALL: Ranters, Ravers and Raconteurs Deadline: March 26 Storytelling is a great talent, one that we are letting slip. This region has a rich background not only of oral history and formal narratives, but also of the kitchen table rant-and-rave. Storytelling at the root is a face-to-face interaction, an aspect of contemporary culture that is…
Saskatchewan Writers/Artists Colonies summer 2010 retreats
The Saskatchewan Writers/Artists Colonies will be holding two retreats in summer 2010. Emma Lake Colony: Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus University of Saskatchewan, June 13 to June 27, 2010. A maximum of 15 participants will be accommodated. Cost is $525 per week for Saskatchewan Writers Guild and CARFAC SASK members and $600 per week for non-members….
Network – Learn – Grow
The Atlantic Magazines Association is proud to present its second annual MagazinesEast 2010. Atlantic Canada’s premiere professional development and networking conference for the publishing industry. Don’t miss this year’s exciting line-up of speakers on topics like branding, marketing, editorial, website sales, typography, and much more. Register before March 15th and you could win an iPod…
MPW Spring 2010 Best Yet!
Howdy Friends of MasterPlayWorks and all things artistic! Porter Anderson, former theatre critic for The Village Voice and The New York Times, former CNN producer and anchor, is writing his first novel, American Kouros. Along with three other wonderful writers at different stages of their practice (two playwrights and a screenwriter), Porter is taking MasterPlayWorks’ Winter 2010 course in the Character Generated Plot…
2010 Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop
The 2010 Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop (June 29 – July 4) at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, offers mid-level writers a wonderful opportunity to develop their writing by working with some of Canada’s top writers in the areas of fiction, playwriting, poetry, or memoir. In addition this year the Great Blue Heron is offering…
Wanted: Executive Director for the Sage Hill Writing Experience
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…
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…
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…
Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program
RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY FOR WRITERS WITH THE MARKIN-FLANAGAN DISTINGUISHED WRITERS PROGRAM The Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program is accepting submissions from emerging Canadian writers for a 10-month residency at the University of Calgary from August 15, 2011 to June 15, 2012. Housed in the Faculty of Humanities, the residency provides a unique opportunity for Canadian writers to devote their time…
Canadian Mennonite University School of Writing
Creative Writers: join us at the School of Writing at CMU, now in its 4th year. From May 10-14, 2010, Margaret Sweatman (fiction), Barbara Nickel (poetry), Joanne Klassen (life writing), and Anita Daher (writing for children & young adults) will be offering courses in a supportive and challenging environment for writers of many skill and experience…
The Writing Pool 