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…
Sales Outlet for Prince Edward Island Books
The Turret Bell (www.turretbell.com), located in St Peters Bay, has been a fixture in Eastern PEI for the past three years. With one of the Island’s largest selection of Prince Edward Island books, The Turret Bell has become a major outlet for Island authors. The Turret Bell has embarked on two new initiatives this year…
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…
Raddall Fiction Prize increased to $20,000
Atlantic Canada’s richest literary prize just got richer. At a ceremony honoring the 20th anniversary of the award this Thursday at White Point Beach Resort, award benefactor Tom Raddall II announced that the $15,000 award would increase to $20,000 beginning next year. The Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize was established by the Writers’ Federation…
Linden MacIntyre, Shandi Mitchell, SS Atlantic big winners at 2010 Atlantic Book Awards
It was standing room only at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, NS Wednesday night as over 200 of the region’s writers, illustrators, book publishers and readers celebrated the 33 nominees and recipients of 13 different literary prizes at the 2010 Atlantic Book Awards. CBC Radio host Costas Halavrezos and Newfoundland playwright, comedian and author…
Enfield & Wizenty Fiction Contest Renewed
Building on the success of its initial contest last year, Enfield & Wizenty is once again offering a $5,000 advance for best novel or short story collection by a Canadian author. Last year’s winner, Michelle Berry, will see her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life released this September alongside two new titles by contest…
UPDATE FROM CWAG*
UPDATE FROM CWAG* Canadian Writers Against the Google settlement Hello Everybody — There are far too many of you now to email separately. But I have very much enjoyed corresponding with you, and if you would like to reply, please do so. I have had a lot of questions from you about when this mess…
Congratulations to The Malahat Review’s 2010 Novella Prize Winner
Congratulations to The Malahat Review’s 2010 Novella Prize Winner The Malahat Review congratulates Tony Tulathimutte of San Francisco, CA on winning our 2010 Novella Prize! His story, “Brains,” was chosen from 196 entries by our three final judges: Bill Stenson, Bernice Friesen, and Patricia Robertson. Of “Brains,” our judges said: “It was a pleasure to…
The Writing Pool 