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’…
Category: Seminars and Workshops
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…
Autopoiesis Atelier
Explore creativity from within and become the artist of your Autopoetic Life Five Day Program at Oceanstone Inn and Cottages in Nova Scotia August 9th to 13th 9am to 4:30pm $499.00 (early registration discount available) When we quiet the mind, allow for pure consciousness to express through us, and gain clarity about who we are…
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…
SPRING WORKSHOPS FOCUS ON GETTING PUBLISHED
SPRING WORKSHOPS FOCUS ON GETTING PUBLISHED The Island Writers Association’s Spring series of Workshops for Writers begins with two sessions that explore the subject of getting your book published to take place in May. In June attention turns to Romance and Children’s writing with workshops presented by Brian Henry of Ontario, who brings 25 years…
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 ”…
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…
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….
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…
The Writing Pool 