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Library Out Loud – February 23

Come and share your writing – in any genre – with The Writers’ Collective and Millennium Library!

When: Sunday, February 23, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Where: Millennium Library, TD New and Noted Room

You don’t need to be polished, professional or published. You need only be willing to read words you have written, OUT LOUD.

Sign up today, email: [email protected] (and if you don’t sign up, come anyway, we’ll have fun, I promise.)…

Call for Submissions – Wine & Words | New Writings

Your writing can be part of Wine & Words | New Writings, a celebration of new writing by our friends at Theatre by the River!

Submit an excerpt of an unpublished work-in-progress – part of a short story, poem, song, scene from a play, prose – to be performed at Wine & Words. Wine & Words provides an opportunity to celebrate the authors and their unpublished creative works by showcasing them through the professional talents of local performance artists.

A panel of …

Library Out Loud: January 26

When: Sun, January 26/2014 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Millennium Library

Join us, won’t you? Sometimes it just sounds different aloud. The Winnipeg Public Library and the Writers’ Collective of Manitoba invite new and established writers to try out their works by reading them aloud in a supportive environment.  To get your (approximately three-minute) reading on the list, email the office at .…

Member Event: Launch of Measured Words

MEASURED WORDS third course

Edited by Barbara J. Becker

Where: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Atrium

When: December 5th, 7:00pm.

A 3rd anthology in the Winnipeg Bestsellers series. Come out and meet Manitoba Writers as they read their stories and poems, share recipes and vintage photographs, and sign copies of their book. Refreshments provided.…

Library Out Loud

Sun, November 24/2013 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Millennium Library

Join us, won’t you? Sometimes it just sounds different aloud. The Winnipeg Public Library and the Writers’ Collective of Manitoba invite new and established writers to try out their works by reading them aloud in a supportive environment.  Signed up thus far: Souad Bauer and Debbie Strange. To get your (approximately three-minute) reading on the list, email Anita in the office at .…

Speaking Crow

When: November 12, 2013

Where: Free Press News Cafe

Featuring: YOU!

Speaking Crow, Winnipeg’s longest running poetry series, is a program of the Writers’ Collective of Manitoba, supported by the Manitoba Arts Council, and hosted by the always charming Bruce Symaka. This monthly event usually showcases one featured poet, followed by an open mic (three minutes each). Visit Speaking Crow on FaceBook.…

Member Event: Author Table at C4

Ron Hore will be manning a table at the Central Canada Comic Con November 1,2,3 along with other Winnipeg Writers, promoting his two fantasy novels now available in print–The Dark Lady and The Queen’s Pawn–and will be giving out material regarding his ebooks including his fantasy detective series, The Housetrap Chronicles. If you are in the neighbourhood, drop over to our table (Look for the Burst Books banner) and say hi!…

Member Event: Launch of Itty Bitty Bits

WC program coordinator Anita Daher  is thrilled to announce the launch of her new children’s picture book, Itty Bitty Bits, illustrated by Wendy Bailey. The launch will take place at McNally Robinson Booksellers on Monday, October 21st at 7 p.m., and will feature a musical performance from family entertainer Francis Leonard of the Secondhandpants. McNally’s will donate 20% of launch night sales to Literacy Partners of Manitoba. More information here.…

Collective Consciousness Crowd-funding Campaign Ends

Help us beat the clock and bring the first issue of the new Collective Consciousness to the printers! Read more about our crowd-funding campaign.

Deadline for Nonfiction and Poetry Contests

Don’t miss out on the Winnipeg Free Press/The Writers’ Collective 2013 Nonfiction and Poetry Contests!

Prizes

Nonfiction: 1st place $500; 2nd place $300; 3rd place $100

All nonfiction winners will be published in the Winnipeg Free Press. The first place winner will also be published in the new Collective Consciousness.

Poetry: 1st place $150, publication in the new Collective Consciousness; 2nd place $100; 3rd place $50

Contest details

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