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:
- Who is this Writers’ Collective?
- And what can it do for me?
The discussion was lively and informative, and at the end we also got our audience involved! Here are some of the interesting …
By Hilary Friesen
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Sally Ito is the first speaker in the Collective’s 100 Minutes with an Author series and I’m so disappointed that I can’t go. (I made a promise to my mother that can’t be rescheduled. Really.)
I first encountered Ito’s poetry when she was a featured reader for Speaking Crow. This was some time ago, when the Crow first came to roost at Aqua Books. I was captivated by the religious imagery, references and reflections woven through her poetry.
and like the soundless urge
that
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When I was eight years old I read The Road to Agra by Aimee Sommerfelt and knew I wanted to be a writer. This book is the story of a thirteen year old boy named Lalu who takes it upon himself to walk across northern India in an effort to get his seven year old sister Maya to a UN aid station. Here he hopes the doctors can halt the encroaching blindness that will otherwise doom her to a life of isolation and poverty.
When …
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 the …
Welcome to thewriterscollective.org, the new interactive home of the Collective online! For those of you who attended our recent website launch event on February 3 at the fabulous Aqua Books, some of what I’m about to cover here will be familiar ground. Those of you who didn’t attend—you missed a great party! Fortunately, I was able to eat enough cookies to supply the deficiency.
When the question of hosting the launch evening came up, I volunteered, because I am genuinely excited about this project, …
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