Yes, it’s true. Karen Emilson will be leaving The Writers’ Collective. We are sad to see her go, but wish her well in all her future projects, especially her writing.
Now we need someone to fill her shoes!
The Program Coordinator is primarily responsible for member and partner relations and organizing and administering Collective programs and events. The Writers’ Collective is a not-for-profit organization that provides programs and services to support, encourage and recognize new and emerging writers.
Applicants must be dedicated, reliable, community minded, able…
The Writers’ Collective needs your help! We want to know a bit about your relationship with the Collective – which programs and services you use the most, what you want from the Collective, what your writing goals are and how we can serve you better.
Please take a few minutes (about 15) to complete our survey. At the end, you can enter for a chance to win a free one-year membership or a free workshop by providing us with your name and contact…
Ah, Purple. You’ve brought us so many great things. Grapes, Amethyst, Lilacs, all make me happy.
Here are some Purple things that I have found in my internet travels which also make me smile. Why not try to incorporate some of them into your writing? Have fun!
Happy Writing!
Have you signed up for CV2′s Annual 2-Day Poetry Contest? Well, I would if I were you. It’s so much fun. I had a great time last year. It’s challenging and gets the creative gears moving again.
Check it out! CV2′s 2-Day Poetry Contest
It’s happened to the best of us. You’re out doing something, and someone you know tells someone you don’t know that you’re writing a novel, or a chapbook, etc.
This leads to that awkward, “So what’s your novel about?” chat that, personally, makes me die a little on the inside, because I know that when I explain it, it is going to come out sounded stupid. Never fails.
How does one deal with these sorts of questions? Well, Writerly Life has some answers.
Click here! …
Happy New Years, everyone!
And happy ‘Lindsey finally remembered her username and password and can now update the webpage’ Day! Oh yes, January 3rd will go down in history as a wonderful day indeed.
So how was everyone’s holiday season? Did anyone make a writing related New Years resolution? This would be a good year to do so, as this is the year of the rabbit! Rabbits rock the creative side of the Chinese Zodiac spectrum. So crack open your laptop, wipe the…
Green! What a wonderful color! It’s so lush, so vibrant, so ancient and powerful. Yup, green has it going on, which is why it is the next color featured in the Inspiration: Color Series!
Take a look at these photos and let the good ideas roll!
Happy Writing!
Lindsey says, check out Charlie Says! It’s a brand spankin’ new “Dear Abby-esque” YouTube show by Charlie, who is a board member here at the Writers’ Collective.
So go check it out! Seriously. Do it. Lindsey told you too.
Happy Writing!
Here’s a neato article passed along by the fabulous Debbie Strange!
It has art, mystery and Ian Rankin references!
Check it out! Click here! Click here!
We all see red sometimes. Little Jimmy broke your grandmothers lamp, your Pomeranian decided your couch needed to die, that promotion you wanted went to Sheila, that girl from customer service who steals all of the good pens, you know what I’m talking about. It happens.
But red isn’t always a bad thing. Lots of nice things are red, like rubies, roses, kicky high heels and fast cars. Red has a lot going for it, which is…
Banff Centre: Call to Poets, Deadline December 5
Applications for poetry will be accepted
until December 5, 2011
Writing Studio
April 30 – June 2, 2012
Program Director: Greg Hollingshead
Associate Directors: Daphne Marlatt, Karen Solie
Faculty: Tim Bowling, M.A.C. Farrant, Fanny Howe, Larissa Lai, Tim Lilburn, Nino Ricci, Shyam Selvadurai, Colin Bernhardt
Designed for literary writers at early or intermediate stages in their careers, the Writing Studio offers poets and writers of fiction and other narrative prose the time, space,…
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