TWP Weekly Writing Post 2015 Valentine Edition

The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM 2015 February 8-14 Valentine 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…

TWP Weekly Writing Post 2015 January 25-31 Edition

                 The Writing Pool’s             Weekly Writing PostTM 2015 January 25-31 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…

TWP Weekly Writing Post 2015 January 11-17 Edition

The Writing Pool’s  Weekly Writing PostTM Je suis Charlie! Very recently, the world reeled in shock when France experienced a hostile attack in the heart of Paris, resulting in several deaths, all in retaliation against Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French publication that has made itself known for its political cartoons. It is sad when writers…

TWP Weekly Writing Post 2014 December 14-20 Edition

Greetings! The Christmas season is upon us again and yes, there are contests! So get out your writing notebooks, journals, laptops, computers, or whatever it is you like writing on and just write! This is your chance to start writing for the upcoming contests that you always wanted to join but never had the time….

THE PEIWG WEEKLY 2-8 December 2012

It’s Holiday Season!   Welcome to the PEIWG Weekly Bulletin! This is a free service done voluntarily and published and circulated through the PEIWG mailing list. If you do not see images, colors, or varied fonts, that is because you are receiving it through a mail server that converts all documents to plain or rich…

PoeARTry Playoffs

The poeARTry Playoffs is a collaboration between the CCAG, the PEI Writer’s Guild and the UPEI Writing Centre which aims to boisterously welcome UPEI students to Charlottetown’s creative community as part of the Community Roots orientation September 16-18, 2011. The evening brought together poets, artists, enthusiasts, and students to compete in several rounds of on-the-spot…

Write to Surprise Yourself—in Poetry or Prose

Write to Surprise Yourself—in Poetry or Prose Dianne Hicks Morrow: Writing Workshop Facilitator PEI Writers’ Guild 2011 Workshop Series  Saturday, May 28, 2011: Active Communities INC., in cooperation with Montague Library Writers’ Guild & the Southern Kings Arts Council 540 Main Street, Main Floor Boardroom, Montague PE Time: 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. (please enter by the side…

Write to Surprise Yourself—in Poetry or Prose

Dianne Hicks Morrow: Writing Workshop Facilitator Saturday, May 7, 2011: Lefurgy Cultural Centre 205 Prince Street, Summerside. Call 902-432-1327 for directions If you have times when your inspiration has evaporated, this workshop is for you. The tools you practise today will bring the juice back into your writing. You can continue to use these tools…

SHYNESS ANTHOLOGY WELCOMES SUBMISSIONS

Deadline: September 15 Naomi K. Lewis and Rona Altrows are compiling an anthology, SHY. They are looking for personal essays of up to 5000 words, poems and visual artworks  that deal in an honest , fresh and non-preachy way with the creator’s experience of being shy. For essays, please send us a double-spaced Word attachment….

Arc Calls for Entry 2010

DON’T CHUCK THAT STANZA: Arc has just the call for you: PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for Poem of the Year is changing to February 1, 2010 and the Diana Brebner Award deadline is changing to March 1, 2010. This change was made in response to feedback from our readers, and also to help us accommodate the transition…

Two January Poetry Workshops

Poet and Teacher Beth E. Janzen will be offering two Saturday afternoon workshops in January. Details below. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We can never see the whole forest at one time, but the shifting light, the wild creatures, the intriguing paths, some barely visible among the foliage, lead us in, keep us wanting to go deeper into the heart of the…

Into the Sea: Taking Your Poetry Deeper

“What makes me feel as though I belong here, out in this world, is…what goes on in my mind when I am writing.  Then I belong here, and then all of the things that are disparate and irreconcilable can be useful.” —Toni Morrison This course is for people who write poems.  Whether you are a…