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…
The Writers’ Collective is seeking a graphic designer for the Collective Consciousness, our literary journal. The journal usually runs 30 to 50 pages and comes out two to four times per year.
As the graphic designer, you will:
- Lay out the journal based on copy provided by the Editorial Board
- Ensure content in the journal retains approved formatting, such as italics, bolds and line and paragraph breaks
- Provide stock images as needed to accompany text
- Lay out advertising copy as required…
Those were the stories and verses on display at the Writers’ Circle wrap-up on June 9. Four brave souls (full disclosure: I was one of them) took the stage to read some of the work they had honed in the past year at Writers’ Circles.
Then we spent the remainder of the evening with our adoring fans, talking about writing, gardening, sci-fi and…
Last month, I took a break from my solitary writing life (and my day job) to spend a week with ten other fabulously talented fiction writers. I also got to mingle with a few dozen more writers who were working on poetry, life writing and writing for children and young adults. Where did I find this eclectic and inspiring congregation of scribes? The School of Writing at CMU.
For me, the School was the perfect balance of working alone and in collaboration with…
Last Sunday we convened the Writers’ Collective’s 10th anniversary AGM. 10 years! That’s a huge milestone for any organization, and especially for a relatively small not-for-profit.
Two of the Collective’s founders, Janine LeGal and Lori Broadfoot, joined two current Board members, Ahniko and Mela Fox-Allen, to discuss two very important questions:
The discussion was lively and informative, and at the end we also got our audience involved! Here are some of…
The Guardian is doing a series on “Rules for writers.” They’ve asked contemporary authors to offer their “golden rules” for writing.
I’m by no means an “esteemed” contemporary author (unless you’re asking about my self-esteem), but I thought I’d throw my own offering into the ring.
1. Don’t set the jumps too high. This one I learned from Julia Cameron and her book, The Artist’s Way. Basically, it means don’t start off by setting grandiose goals. There’s no harm in setting…
Literary journals offer a wide market for your work and a good way to get your feet wet in the world of publication. There are no sure-fire tips to guarantee you get published, but there are two ways to increase your chances: 1. Do your research and 2. Follow submission guidelines.
Your first step is to get a list of prospects. Google is your friend, especially if you are a genre writer. (“Genre” typically refers to Harlequin-type romance, horror, science fiction/fantasy, whodunnit and western.…
For years, writing was my secret life. I wrote behind closed doors, in notebooks that I shoved in the bottom drawer of my desk or under stacks of library books. Ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would say, vaguely, “Something in editing or publishing. Maybe magazines.”
Today, when the death of print has been cried from the rooftops for the last several years, the idea that “magazines” seemed like a promising career choice is rather ironic. But these…
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