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…
Category: Seminars and Workshops
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…
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…
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…
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…
David Francey Songwriting Workshop
The PEI Writers’ Guild is proud to sponsor a David Francey Songwriting Workshop on November 20th, 2-4 p.m. Spaces are limited to participate in this amazing opportunity to work with a world-renowned songwriter/singer. The PLACE IS TO BE DETERMINED, but downtown Charlottetown for sure. Francey is playing the Guild the evening of the 20th, so…
Publish Your Family Memories, Photos or Recipes – perfect for Christmas giving
The Island Writers Association (PEI) will present a hands-on evening designed to help individuals create a book with or without the use of a computer. To be held at the Stratford Town Hall in late November the evening will provide an opportunity to begin a project that has the potential to be a family treasure….
Pen & Inkling Festival : Event Details
Pen & Inkling Festival The Prince Edward Island Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) turns twenty this year and are celebrating with the Pen & Inkling Festival on the weekend of September 18 – 20, 2009. This three-day, three-county event will celebrate Island writers through the Island Literary Awards ceremony, a conversation about poetry between John Smith and David…
The Writing Pool 