Step right up to self-publishing
Though the line of respectability between traditionally-published and self-published material is blurring, the line regarding publicity has almost disappeared. Promotion budgets are getting smaller and these days, authors must create their own buzz.
Read More»CBC Creative Nonfiction Competition
This is it! Your first writing assignment of the New Year!
Send us your original, unpublished work of creative nonfiction for a chance to win $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a writing residency at the Banff Centre and publication in Air Canada’s enRoute Magazine.
Deadline is March 1, 2015.
Visit the CBC site for more info.
TWUC call for submissions
The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased to announce that submissions are being accepted until March 1, 2015 for the 22nd Annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. The winning entry will be the best Canadian work of up to 2,500 words in the English language, fiction or non-fiction, written by an author not published in book format.
Write on! Workshop
Write On! A creative writing workshop to kickstart your imagination, and get you on the ‘write’ track.
To paraphrase Ruth, one of the great characters in Louise Penny’s newest book, “The Long Way Home”, a poem begins as a lump in the throat. I think the same can be said for all good writing. Which begs the question…
What is stuck inside of you that needs expressing through your pen?
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