The Writers' Collective

Coming up soon at McNally Robinson Booksellers: Anne Szumigalski

It’s sure to be one heck of a reading!…

so i know the song traditionally doesn’t have a thirteenth day, but thirteen is so much cooler a number than twelve so that’s why Writemas has thirteen! Writemas is so much cooler than Christmas after all.

so today, a final diddy, and another submission from the lovely Hilary Friesen

- a write up from her attendance at a recent Writers’ Collective workshop with the lovely director Danishka Esterhazy…

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Beginners Course in Scriptwriting – Danishka Esterhazy

“The story structure of film is very formulaic – …

… re: the song = whatever already!…

almost didn’t make it here today due to technical difficulties but got it in just under the wire…. and today, Mr. Jordan Wheeler = last ndn i swear! (at least during Writemas)

first a bio – uncharacteristically short winded for the Wheelerster - Jordan Wheeler is a member of the Gordon First Nation.  He’s been writing stories since 1982. Aaaand he’s on NativeWiki – check it! (NativeWiki = just as “Made it” as white person Wiki).

now, my …

… i think you know it by now….

ok so i’m returning to the Aboriginal Writers Collective theme cause, well, they’re the ones who have sent me stuff. that and i heart them so bad!! so today, enjoy a little of the 2009 Lansdowne Poetry Prize winner Rosanna Deerchild:

Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Her first book of poetry this is a small northern town was published in 2008 by The Muses Company (J. Gordon Shillingford). An award winning journalist, Rosie …

on the tenth day of Writemas my true love gave to me

a look ahead to January’s Speaking Crow!!!

This is Jonathan Ball and he is going to be featured – Tuesday January 4th, 7 pm, Aqua Books!!! – (pssst check his website too – lotsa cool things there, including an interview with Frank Black!! i heart Frank Black.)

And the vivacious Colin Smith is back at the Speaking Crow bio writing helm – he writes some gooders does he, and Ball’s is no exception …

sing it loud people!!!! – ON THE NINTH DAY OF WRITEMAS MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME

A WONDERFUL POSTCARD STORY FROM HILARY FRIESEN!!!!!!

- singing it louder makes me feel energetic!

ok so leaving behind the other Collective, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming of this Writers Collective…. with a lovely postcard story from the uber lovely Hilary Friesen. (technically, it’s a postcard story without the postcard but i don’t really feel the postcard is neccessary to the postcard story – just …

on the eighth day of writemas kate starts to realize that this is a bigger project than she originally thought ….

and shares one of her favourite poems by Ms Elizabeth Denny!!!

(the last of my Aboriginal Writers Collective submissions – unless of course those members former and current who “FORGOT” or “DIDN’T CHECK THEIR EMAIL” suddenly remember to send me something!!!!!)

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Elizabeth Ann Denny is a proud Metis writer from Winnipeg. Her writing which takes many forms, can be found most recently …

i think writerliness should be the next big popular word…..

WRITERS COLLECTIVE NEWS WITH MICHEAL VAN ROOY:

Announcements:

Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Copy Editing with David Jón Fuller

Date: January 8, 2011, Saturday

Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

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

Event: Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Copy Editing with David Jón Fuller

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

Whether you’re working on a …

On the sixth day of Writemas my true love gave to me

A warm and steamy poem from Maeengan Linklater

Check it: Maeengan Linklater: a First Nations writer and filmmaker (www.maeengan.blogspot.com). His first film, First Nation Winnipeg: The Heart of a Home, co-produced with Jim Sanderson, premiered at Cinematheque in Winnipeg last year. He is working on a full-length poetry collection (forthcoming). He is currently on the board of the Manitoba Writers Guild. … And he has the best profile pict on …

… my true love …. yadda yadda yadda

a GREAT poem from Shayla Elizabeth!

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as you might have noticed, I’ve been sending shouts out to my dear friends in the Aboriginal Writers Collective. Shayla is one such dear friend, her bio reads as follows: storyteller/poet/emerging playwright/writer/sometime journalist/repatriated cross-cultural adoptee from the 60′s scoop/Ininew (Cree)–mixed blood/mother–mama/partner/lover.

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chief miska muskwa

(on the occasion of the chief big bear monument unveiling)

mama, am I Cree?

yes   baby girl   you are of the People

to be Cree/Iniwe …