TWP Weekly Writing Post 2014 September 6-12 Edition

The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM 2014 September 6-12 Edition Welcome to The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM! We provide you with a free weekly newsletter filled with notices about contests, events, conferences, and other information that might be useful or of great interest to writers of all leanings. Meanwhile, calls for submission to literary…

TWP Weekly Writing Post 2014 August 24-30 Edition

                The Writing Pool’s                   Weekly Writing PostTM 2014 August 24-30 Edition Welcome to The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM! We provide you with a free weekly newsletter filled with notices about contests, events, conferences, and other information that might be useful or of great interest to writers of all leanings. Meanwhile, calls for submission…

Atlantic Book Awards & Festival Events

Bob Chaulk, co-author of SS Atlantic: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea and a double Atlantic Book Award nominee, will be speaking at two events in Halifax on April 15. The first event will be a panel discussion with fellow nominee Mike Herffernan, author of Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster. Chaulk…

Commonwealth Prize winners at King’s College/Atlantic Book Awards & Festival

The King’s Co-op Bookstore will host an Atlantic Book Awards & Festival reading with Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winning-authors Shandi Mitchell of Wellington, NS and Michael Crummey of St. John’s, NL: Friday, April 16, 7 pm, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College, Halifax (422-1271, x261) Michael Crummey has won the CWP Canada and Caribbean Region Best…

2010 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival

The 2010 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival has released its schedule of free literary events–book signings, launches, panel discussions and readings–taking place in all four Atlantic provinces from Saturday, April 10 – Sunday, April 18. The festival schedule, as well as the list of titles 28 up for the 11 book awards, is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca Brochures listing many of the events…

Atlantic Book Awards Society’s 2009 Atlantic Book Awards

The 2009 Atlantic Book Awards celebration will take place at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Author and CBC Radio host, Stephanie Domet (winner of the 2008 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award), and actor/humorist, Bill Carr will co-host the cabaret-style celebration as nine awards…