The Writers' Collective

Upcoming Workshops

Life and Artmergencies: The 7 Aspects of Personal Resiliency

November 9, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Instructor: Erin Stewart
Cost: Free for ACI members, $5 for non-members
Location: Millennium Library (251 Donald Street)
Description: As an artist, you may be especially sensitive to criticism because you are your work. You may face extraordinarily difficult financial and life circumstances. How do we, as human beings, deal constructively with life’s shortcomings and setbacks?

Selling Your Graphic Novel
November 9, 9am – 4pm

Instructors: GMB Chomichuk and John Toone
Cost:

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Reposted from the Jane Day Reader (A blog by Ariel Gordon)

Readings and Creative Writing for Artist Mothers
with Amy Karlinsky and Ariel Gordon at MAWA

Dates: Monday, September 12, 6-9 pm; Sunday, October 23, 1-3 pm; Monday, November 21, 6-9 pm; and one date in January TBD

Registration deadline: Friday, September 9, 2011, at 4 pm

$30 for MAWA members. Email your intention to attend to [email protected] and put “Mothers” in the subject heading. If you are not already a member, please also …

Grant writing can be quite intimidating when you’re first starting out, which is why Creative Manitoba is having two seminars on grant writing.

Check em’ out!

Basic Grant Writing (Deadline to sign up is August 15th)

Advanced Grant Writing (Deadline to sign up is August 22nd)…

Creating Strong Characters

A Fiction Workshop with David Annandale

Thursday June 23, 2011

1:30 – 4:00 p.m
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Buchwald Room, Millennium Library

Cost: $15 WC members, $30 non-members.

Contact  or call 786-9468 to register.

David will discuss the importance of creating strong characters in this lecture / workshop and will expand upon his earlier talk. Feel free to bring along a sample of your work, but it is not a requirement. Please pre-register so that we know how many participants to expect

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A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH BARRY DEMPSTER

The Manitoba Writers’ Guild Poetry Workshop is one of four MWG workshops for published writers in 2010-2011. Registrants must have one book publication of 48 pages or more by a recognized Canadian publisher.

The Barry Dempster Poetry Workshop will be held on Sunday March 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., MWG Burns Creative Classroom (218-100 Arthur Street). Deadline for applications, including the submission of work: March 1, 2011.

Cost: $100 for members, $130 for non-members (fee includes …

The Book of The and Another Book of The:

Idea Generation – The Indispensable Core of Creativity

Robert Kelly PhD – University of Calgary

Saturday, March 5, 10 am to 1 pm

$20 for Writers’ Collective members, $40 for non-members

Email to register.

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Bring your ideas and sense of humour as artist and educator, Robert Kelly leads us through an exploration of the many dimensions of creativity with focus on the dynamic of idea generation and invention.  Join us in an active process …

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Copy Editing with David Jón Fuller

Saturday, January 8, 2011 - 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3, Phone: 204-943-7555.

Cost: $30 or $100 for all four workshops (MEA members pay $25), contact  or 943-7555 to register.

Whether you’re working on a rewrite, polishing a manuscript for submission, or sending an article on deadline, this workshop will teach you how to clean up your prose. You’ll also learn how to work with style …

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Writing Dialogue with David Jón Fuller – This workshop is presented in partnership with the The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba!

Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3, Phone: 204-943-7555.

Cost: $30 or $100 for all four workshops (WC members pay $25), contact  or 943-7555 to register.

It’s a lot more than just He said/She said: dialogue can make or break a scene or story. Learn what makes effective …

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Writing for Newspapers with David Jón Fuller – This workshop is presented in partnership with the The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba!

Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 10 am – 1 pm

Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3, Phone: 204-943-7555.

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Writing for Newspapers with David Jón Fuller

Cost: $30 or $100 for all four workshops (WC members pay $25), contact  or 943-7555 to register.

Deadline. That’s the first thing you need to know, because …

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Performing Your Work with David Jón Fuller – This workshop is presented in partnership with the The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba!

Saturday, January 29, 2011 -  10 am – 1 pm

Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3, Phone: 204-943-7555.

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Performing Your Work with David Jón Fuller

Cost: $30 or $100 for all four workshops (WC members pay $25), contact  or 943-7555 to register.

Note: This workshop is limited to 12 people.

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