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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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,…
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…
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…
Piper’s Frith: Writing at Kilmory Resort, October 12 – 16, 2010
The Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland & Labrador invites established and emerging writers to join Jessica Grant (fiction), Mary Dalton (poetry) and Kevin Major (prose) for small-group workshops and one-on-one mentoring. Social evenings and peaceful, stunning surroundings enhance this intensive four-day experience. Piper’s Frith takes place at beautiful Kilmory Resort amidst the wildness of the Burin Peninsula. The…
SeaWords 2010
SeaWords is a 1-week creative writing workshop sponsored by the University of Prince Edward Island and the L.M. Montgomery Institute. The next SeaWords Workshop will be this summer, August 2 – 6, 2010, and will be hosted at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown. Returning this year we have Jackie Kaiser, one of the top literary agents in…
CCWWP conference registration now open
Dear Colleagues, Early bird registration for the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs (CCWWP) conference in October 2010 is now open! Please go to http://www.regonline.ca/CCWWP2010. We encourage you to register as soon as possible, to take advantage of the early bird rate, and to assist the organizing committee in planning and budgeting. You can also download…
Tatamagouche Centre 2010 Programs
Upcoming programs … Writing in a Time of Exile July 25 – 30; Sun 7pm to Fri 3pm This program offers published and unpublished writers intensive work with your writing; contemplative space; personal conferences; and feedback from facilitators and fellow participants. We also examine writing and social context: How do we deal with class and gender, nationality and…
red earth women presents Moe Clark
Moe Clark, our guest-artist-from-montreal on thursday may 20 at red earth women presents is off erring an awesome workshop the next afternoon. please peruse the info and IF you can let me know IF you MIGHT be interested so we might have a sense… that would be grand moe’s looping pedal workshop friday, may 21 ”…
Transformational Journal Writing Workshop
========================================= Transformational Journal Writing Workshop Facilitated by Dianne Morrow PEI School of the Arts Gulf Shore School, North Rustico July 5 – 9, 2010 ========================================= Have you attended writing workshops where you come home exhausted from the required pre-reading and critiquing of others’ work? This is not one of those. Transformational Journal Writing will help you…
MasterPlayWorks Online Workshop
Something New from Playwright, Novelist, Educator and GG Winner Kent Stetson’s MasterPlayWorks. Writers ask if MasterPlayWorks’ Character Generated Plot in Drama and Prose Fiction on-line workshop can be presented in a condensed form. I like the idea. The 2010 summer course will run over four rather than eight weeks, one month rather than two. We’ll meet…
Bluefield High School Students Open House Reading
What: Bluefield High School Students Open House Reading Where: Confederation Centre Art Gallery When: April 24th, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Would you would like to hear some creative and thought-provoking young voices? If so, please come to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery for an open house of readings from the Creative Writing Group of Bluefield High School led…
The Writing Pool 