Walking through the Ashes in Eden
by Kellie Underhill
I went to Sackville in April to hear a talk given by a friend who attended a week long workshop in Colorado last year by the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.
I have been out of the creative scene for years now, and honestly I wasn’t feeling any urge or pressure to reconnect with it. I went to this presentation because a) my friend invited me and I wanted to be there to support her and b) it was happening in Sackville, where I lived for two years, really miss and will seize any opportunity to visit.
Read More»WordSpring is fast approaching
Today is May 1, the traditional time of spring renewal. That means only 26 more sleeps until WFNB’s own spring festival, WordSpring 2016. The event takes place on May 27-29 at Miramichi City. And it promises to be a blast!
At WordSpring 2016, you can renew your writing dreams, whether you want to self-publish your work, boost your dialogue-writing skills, create your own website – or just see old friends.
Read More»Call for Submissions: CBC Poetry Prize
The submissions period for the 2016 CBC Poetry Prize is now open! We hope you can share this information with your networks and on social media.
More info: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/04/2016-cbc-poetry-prize-now-open.html
Deadline: May 31
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest & Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize
$2,400 in Prizes to be won!
Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize: Stories on any subject. Total entry not to exceed 20 pages.
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest: Poems on any subject. Total entry not to exceed 4 pages. Maximum 150 lines. Entries might be one longer poem, or several shorter poems.
Deadlines: Fiction entries must be postmarked by June 1, 2016 and Poetry must be postmarked by June 30, 2016
For complete submission guidelines, please go to www.antigonishreview.com and click on contest.
Former WFNB Competition winner publishes book
In 2008, Nova Scotia writer André Narbonne won WFNB’s David Adams Richards Prize for his fiction manuscript Separatists which, while complete, was not long—only 98 pages.
With the encouragement of the prize, he began working to expand and develop the work, which was recently published as the short story collection, Twelve Miles to Midnight.
Read More»Warming up with A Winter’s Tale
A three-inch binder sits on the shelf above my writing desk, stuffed full of hopeful notes on different aspects of grammar, poetry, writing for the screen, writing for children, young adult , romance and historical novels. My inspiration wall keeps inspirational snippets collected from here and there in safekeeping. Most of these wise nuggets were all gleaned from ten years’ worth of attendance at weekend writing workshops, squeezed in between all the busiest parts of my life.
I admit it: I’m a workshop junkie.
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