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AGM & Blue Pencil Cafe, June 8, Moncton
Our AGM is fast approaching! We are offering a free-for-members Blue Pencil Café from 10:30 to Noon on June 8, at the Lotus Co-op Market in Moncton. What’s a blue pencil café? Well, it’s a chance to meet one-on-one with an experienced writer, to gain advice or receive feedback. We will have seven authors available for sessions, including magazine writing, poetry, adult fiction, young adult fiction, creative non fiction, query read more…
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Maritime Writers’ Workshops Scholarships available this summer
Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 27, 2013— The Maritime Writers’ Workshops is offering scholarships for its upcoming 38th annual workshops in July. Three adults will receive a $125 course registration fee for a daytime workshop of their choice, and; Six teens (ages 15-18) will receive a $30 course registration fee for the July 11 workshop Aliens, Zombies, Vampires: Writing out Your Inner Monster with Corey Redekop. To apply for read more…
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Writers’ Union Chair Merilyn Simonds, NB tour
Author and current Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, Merilyn Simonds, will be making two stops in New Brunswick next week. This is a great opportunity hear about the state of copyright laws, eBooks, the Public Lending Right and so much else happening in the changing digital world, as well as share your views and talk with other writers, who often are the coolest people. The two events below read more…
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Mill Write Dinner and Writers’ Workshop featuring Donna Morrissey
Mill Write Dinner and Writers’ Workshop featuring award-winning author Donna Morrissey On Saturday, April 6, 2013 the Greenwood Lodge will host their 5th literary dinner. Donna Morrissey will host the Writers’ Workshop at the beautiful Cedar Brook Landingin Brown’s Yard from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. This workshop isdesigned around finding Voice and writing short fiction from one’s past, using fun, intriguing techniques of tapping into one’s past and combining truth with read more…
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Novelist Chad Pelley tours NB, March 26 – 28
Novelist Chad Pelley, winner of the inaugural Salon Fiction Prize, will be making stops in New Brunswick on March 26, 27, and 28, celebrating winning the prize as well as the release of his 2nd novel Every Little Thing. As some of you may remember, Chad was one of WFNB’s guest authors at WordsSpring 2011 in Sussex. We’re thrilled that he’s back! Stop one: Chad will be Fredericton at Westminster read more…
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WFNB, PWAC present workshop by Emmy-nominated screenwriter
WFNB, PWAC present workshop by Emmy-nominated screenwriter Learn how to take script idea to screen, April 13, 14 in Moncton Emmy-nominated writer Cynthia Whitcomb will be in Moncton, April 13 and 14, to present a workshop for screenwriters, novelists and playwrights. This skills-building event is a joint presentation of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), Moncton Chapter, and the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB). Over the course of read more…
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Noah Richler to speak at UNB about how we talk about war, Nov 14
Noah Richler, author of the Governor General’s Award-nominated What We Talk About When We Talk About War, will be delivering a talk on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at the UNB Fredericton Wu Conference Centre. As part of this year’s annual Dominick Graham Lecture on war and society, Richler argues that the net effect of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been a discrediting of Canadian read more…
A WORKING WRITERS’ RETREAT
WHERE: The Villa Madonna Renforth, New Brunswick (just outside Saint John) WHEN: November 16, 17 and 18, 2012 FEE: $168.00 which includes single room and board. This is not a leader-guided writing retreat. Rather it an opportunity to give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time to write. There is a loose structure that provides touchstones for optional opportunities (between writing) to connect with other writers. How this happens varies with read more…
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Writers’ Union of Canada “How to be your own publicist” workshops
HOW TO BE YOUR OWN PUBLICIST WORKSHOP REGISTER TODAY Terrific workshops on “How To Be Your Own Publicist” by authors Ann Douglas and Elizabeth Ruth and Kelly Duffin are being taking place in the east this fall. This time the workshops are in Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Kingston. But no worries if you don’t live in one of those five cities, there will be 2 webinars so that read more…
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WordsFall Bios!
Here’s a closer look at some of the participants of WordsFall 2012, October 20, Woodstock. Cynthia Good, director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber College, has been in the publishing industry for over thirty years. She was appointed the first editorial director of Penguin Books Canada in 1982 where she was responsible for establishing a publishing program which grew into one of the most successful in Canada. read more…
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