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,…
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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…
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Upcoming programs … Writing in a Time of Exile July 25 – 30; Sun 7pm to Fri 3pm This program offers published and unpublished writers intensive work with your writing; contemplative space; personal conferences; and feedback from facilitators and fellow participants.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…
GALA BOOK LAUNCH & POETRY CELEBRATION
A gala book launch and poetry celebration will be held on Saturday, May 8, at 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Haviland Club, at Haviland and Water Streets in Charlottetown, The gala is sponsored by the UPEI English Department and PEI Writers’ Guild. The evening features new books by Island authors Richard Lemm and David Helwig, a…
PEIWG ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
You are invited to the 21st PEI Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) Annual General Meeting being held on Saturday, April 24th, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at Sean Wiebe’s house at 31 Edinburgh Drive, Charlottetown. Items on the agenda are the Chair’s report, Treasurer’s report, Ratification of Board Members, Island Literary Awards, and Funding Issues. We will also…
red earth women presents
April Showers brings us You WITH double-time open mic AND National Poetry Month AND Beth Janzen, special guest MC all more Medicine for the Earth at: red earth women presents thursday, april 15 upei faculty lounge, main building doors 7, sign up for open mic 7:30 http://redearthwomenpresents.wordpress.com Our special guest MC Beth E. Janzen is passionate about writing, teaching, and living a vibrant,…
The Writing Pool 