The Writers' Collective

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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Manitoba/New Brunswick/Quebec Creative Residency

Deadline: January 15

The Manitoba/New Brunswick/Quebec Creative Residency is a multidisciplinary program that allows professional Manitoba artists

to undertake a one- to three-month creation-based or professional development residency in New Brunswick or Quebec.

This program is a partnership among the three provinces.

For general guidelines and registration form click here.
For a copy of the program guidelines click here.

For Further Information:

Manitoba Arts Council

525-93 Lombard Avenue

Winnipeg MB  R3B 3B1

Telephone:   1 (204) 945 2237

Toll Free (MB …

RBC BRONWEN WALLACE AWARD FOR EMERGING WRITERS

supported by RBC

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

A prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the best collection of poetry.

Two honourable mentions will each receive $1,000 prizes.…

Join us at CONVOCATION HALL at the University of Winnipeg to celebrate Juice’s Tenth Anniversary, Friday September 24th, 4 – 5:30.

Juice 10 Writers will be reading – some for the first time! Come out and support our new and wonderful talent!

Free admission, juice and goodies.

for more about Juice Journal, click here!…

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:

1. Who is this Writers’ Collective?
2. 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 …

Don’t forget to come down and spend 100 minutes with the lovely Karen Dudley, Saturday, May 1 @ 1:30pm in the Carol Shields Auditorium, Millennium Library, Downtown Winnipeg! … Read her interview with Kate right here ….