The Prince Edward Island Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) is pleased to announce the 2010 Mentorship Program is underway. Three published Prince Edward Island authors, members of the PEI Writers’ Guild, will act as a mentor to an emerging writer (mentee). They are: Deirdre Kessler, educator in creative writing, academic writing, and children’s literature will act as mentor to an…
Tag: Creative writing
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…
Canadian Mennonite University School of Writing
Creative Writers: join us at the School of Writing at CMU, now in its 4th year. From May 10-14, 2010, Margaret Sweatman (fiction), Barbara Nickel (poetry), Joanne Klassen (life writing), and Anita Daher (writing for children & young adults) will be offering courses in a supportive and challenging environment for writers of many skill and experience…
Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs
Dear Fellow Creative Writing Instructors: Many of you may remember an email in November 2008 from the University of Calgary Creative Writing Faculty proposing to form an organization of Canadian creative writing instructors. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and included many concrete proposals. As a result, our committee has expanded and decided to pursue the…
CMU School of Writing Offers Creative Writing Classes
Attention creative writers! We invite you join us at the School of Writing at CMU in Winnipeg, May 4-8, 2009. Cost of the week-long course is $520. The deadline for applications is March 2. This year’s School features classes on Advanced Fiction with David Bergen; Intermediate Fiction with David Elias; Poetry with Barbara Nickel; Life…
The Writing Pool 