TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 Feb 6-12 Edition

The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM 2016 February 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…

PEIWG Annual General Meeting, Workshop, and Open Mic

The PEI Writers’ Guild announces its Annual General Meeting, Workshop, and Open Mic event to be held on Saturday, April 30, 2011.   Co-sponsored with the Department of English at UPEI, and made possible with support from the Community Cultural Partnership Program of the PEI Department of Tourism and Culture, the Workshop WRITING FOR CHILDREN…

PEIWG 2011 Workshops

WRITING FOR CHILDREN WORKSHOP Deirdre Kessler: Writing Workshop Facilitator PEI Writers’ Guild 2011 Workshop Series (Central) Co-sponsored with the Department of English at UPEI WHEN & WHERE Saturday, April 30, 2011: UPEI, Main Building, Room 420 Presented before the 2011 PEI Writers’ Guild Annual General Meeting Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (will start promptly;…

Prince Edward Island-Tasmania Island-to-Island Writers’ Exchange 2011

                         Prince Edward Island-Tasmania Island-to-Island Writers’ Exchange 2011 Deadline for applications: February 28, 2011. Completed applications should be submitted in electronic form to the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre:  Chris Gallagher director@tasmanianwriters.org Queries may be directed to:  Deirdre Kessler <kessler@upei.ca> or Richard Lemm <rlemm@upei.ca> Name: Address: E-mail: Tel.: Please attach the following:  A statement outlining the…

What are afternoon horses?

What are afternoon horses? The phrase comes from a poem in Deirdre Kessler’s poetry book, AFTERNOON HORSES, to be launched October 20th at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House by Acorn Press. Though Kessler has been writing poetry for more years than she has been writing fiction and nonfiction and has had poems published in chapbooks and in…