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Category: Seminars and Workshops
Piper’s Frith: Writing at Kilmory Resort
*To download the brochure application form, click on the following link: piper’s frith brochure
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Hi Folks, I had a terrific response to my lecture/workshop for the Edmonton Branch of the Canadian Author’s Association. About fifty Alberta writers attended the Friday night lecture on Adaptation: Importing Excellence. The following day I conducted an exhaustive full-day workshop, The Character Generated Plot in Drama and Prose Fiction. The response to both events…
Into the Sea: Taking Your Poetry Deeper
“What makes me feel as though I belong here, out in this world, is…what goes on in my mind when I am writing. Then I belong here, and then all of the things that are disparate and irreconcilable can be useful.” —Toni Morrison This course is for people who write poems. Whether you are a…
Inaugural “Piper’s Frith” offers a new writing experience in Newfoundland
The Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador (LAFNL) is launching a four-day writing experience for emerging and established, mid-level writers at beautiful Kilmory Resort in Swift Current, Newfoundland. From October 13-17, 2009, writers are invited to join experienced, award-winning Faculty writers for workshops, one-on-one discussions and peaceful surroundings in which to pursue their work….
Tatamagouche Centre Summer Workshops
Visit the Tatamagouche Centre website to get more information about their Creative Arts summer workshops for 2009. http://tatacentre.ca/programs/details/107 http://www.tatacentre.ca
Centre for Performing Arts in Montague mounts annual Spring pageant
Dear Friends and Patrons of the ARTS: if you can get the word out either through psa’s, announcements, bulletins, or just good old fashioned word of mouth and, of course, come yourselves!….thanks, Virginia for the Centre for Performing ARTS, a non profit, registered Canadian charity, organization. Centre for Performing ARTS, 20 School Street, Montague presents…
Master Play Works announces Spring 2009 Master Class
Dear Friends and Colleagues The Winter 2009 on-line Character-Generated Story course for writers of drama and prose fiction was, in many was, the most successful yet. This is the fourth year MasterPlayWorks has offered the 16 hour, 2 week craft course. Variety remains a critical element in the particular creative process which elevates The Character-Generated…
Writers and Exile at the Tatamagouche Centre
July 19 to 24, join Shani Mootoo (Cereus Blooms at Night, He Drown She in the Sea,Valmiki’s Daughter) and others for the Writers and Exile program at the Tatamagouche Centre on Nova Scotia’s North Shore. This writing workshop will expand its focus to also give attention to cultural assumptions in a world filled with intercultural…
The Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop
WHEN: June 30 to July 5, 2009 WHERE: St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS. FEATURING: Brian Bartlett – poetry LorriNeilsen Glenn – memoir Alistair MacLeod – fiction Donna Morrissey – fiction Colleen Murphy – playwriting For more information, feel free to contact Brenda Riley at gbheron@stfx.ca Have a look at the website: http://www.stfx.ca/workshops/gbheron
WORKSHOP TO ADDRESS LOW COST PUBLICITY TECHNIQUES
Got a new book to promote, an achievement to build your reputation on? Need input to research or submissions to an anthology or contest? Whether a self-employed individual just starting their writing career or an organizing spreading the word about events, the key to success often depends on promotion and publicity. Getting the word out…
The Writing Pool 