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…
Acorn launches LOOKBOOK! A Children’s Guide to Prince Edward Island
If you’re looking for something to do with your children this Sunday afternoon, join us for the launch of LOOKBOOK! A Children’s Guide to Prince Edward Island, written by Jordan McIntyre, and illustrated with paper collage by Catherine Miller. The launch is at the Carriage House at Beaconsfield, 2 Kent Street (please use the West…
Pen & Inkling Festival : Call for Volunteers
The PEI Writers’ Guild Pen & Inkling Festival is fast approaching beginning on Friday, September 18 through to Sunday, September 20! We are hoping YOU will volunteer to give a little or a lot of time for several different types of activities: – We need a head volunteer for each major event, especially each of…
Pen & Inkling Festival
Dear Reader – Please help the PEI Writers’ Guild celebrate 20 years of encouraging reading and writing on the Island by coming out in support of the Pen & Inkling Festival, September 18 – 20, 2009. Exciting literary events will take place in all three Island counties at Tyne Valley, St. Peters, and Charlottetown. I…
Lobster Press Call for Submissions
Calling All Canadian Authors! Award-winning children’s book publisher Lobster Press (www.lobsterpress.com) is looking for children’s book submissions from Canadian authors. We are presently soliciting manuscripts from the following categories: – Original fiction for readers 9-12 and also for young adults (YA) ages 14+. At this time, we would only like to see comedy, “chick lit,”…
MasterPlayWorks Now on Facebook
MasterPlayWorks now has its own Facebook page ( www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103761412129 ) where you can join our group discussions, receive information, and contribute your thoughts an any subject that strikes your fancy. The http://www.MasterPlayWorks.com website has detailed information on course content (Click on Workshops), FAQs (Click on FAQs), and endorsements http://www.masterplayworks.com/endorsements1.htm from previous MPW clients. Here’s a preview of what’s on tap for the fall, 2009:…
Mother Loss Poetry Submissions Wanted
Has Your mother died? An anthology about the death of a mother seeks emotionally honest and compelling submissions that will resonate with the reader. Through the writers’ varied experiences, readers will recognize themselves and be encouraged in knowing they are not alone. Prose poems and poetry, max 100 lines. Short prose, max 750 words. If…
WIPST Screenwriting Competition 2009
Screenwriting Competition 2009 ‘Put your words into action’ So you’ve written a script…..but how do you get it onto the screen? WIPST (Writers International Premier Screen Talent) is a new competition looking for raw talent, and the winning writer will see a pilot of their script on screen. It is so difficult to break into…
Call for Submissions–Adoption Stories
Have you spent years wondering what caused your birth parents to give you up for adoption? Have you watched school children play on your street, wondering if one of them could be the baby you surrendered to social services? Have you wondered about the family history of your adopted child? If you have thought about…
Hedgerow at the Harmony House, Hunter River
Hi there. Hope your summer is going well. It’s amazing how quickly it flies-by, and if you’re like most people, you always lament that you didn’t get to see or do half the things you wanted. If one of those things was enjoying some home-spun Island entertainment with stories and songs, then we have some…
COASTLANDS MAGAZINE: NEW MARKET FOR PEI WRITERS
COMING SEPTEMBER 2009 Launched in 2007 as The Nova Scotia Policy Review, this independent quarterly magazine has gained the respect of policy makers, community advocates and concerned citizens, and its independent reporting has been cited as evidence in the provincial legislature and in municipal chambers. Now in its third year, the magazine is changing its name to Coastlands:…
The Writing Pool 