Students! If anyone is thinking about becoming a Manitoba Writers Guild member anyway--and I highly recommend it--here's your chance to get a great workshop with the esteemed Catherine Hunter into the bargain: Alive & Writing: Lecture by Catherine Hunter + workshop for university & college students Saturday, April 10, 2010…
Read MoreThe prize for procrastination in this world would, I know, be hotly contested. I think I'd have a shot at one of the runner-up spots, at least, though some students would likely give me a run for my money. There's nothing like a good old-fashioned deadline to end procrastination. I…
Read MoreLast term's creative writing instructor, Sally Ito, put me on to this one. Want your short story to appear via iPhone Application? And by "short" I mean real short. Narrative magazine has a call for submissions for six-word stories. Six words. That tell a story. I'd say a complete arc…
Read MoreSo should a die-hard Alice fan like me go see the new Tim Burton movie? My three usual papers disagree: it was reasonably well-reviewed in the Globe, not so well in the Times, and rather badly in the Guardian. I glean from these reviews that its premise is that an…
Read MoreCreComm grad Brenda Hasiuk will be one of the readers at the Anthology Reading Series later this month: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm Aqua Books 274 Garry Street (between Garry and Portage) Brenda Hasiuk has spent the last decade working in communications for a variety of non-profit organizations…
Read MoreThe Gemini Unjournal: a little red river writing hood is now live. For the next two months, students in my workshops will be choosing, editing, and posting each others' work on this newly minted page. I'm hoping to expand the mandate of the Unjournal to including a wider variety of…
Read MoreFrom the Manitoba Writers' Guild newsletter: Freedom to Read Banned Books Reading Marathon February 27, 10 am - 5 pm, Millennium Library As part of Freedom to Read Week, the Winnipeg Public Library and Manitoba Writers' Guild present a Reading Marathon of challenged and challenging literature. Exercise your freedom to…
Read MoreI'm going to fulfill Russell Smith's predictions in this column by posting the column: The market for fiction shrinks every year, the attention paid to novels by the media diminishes monthly, booksellers demand ever-lower prices, everybody in the industry says it’s the worst it’s ever been. And yet more academic…
Read MoreYes, I've been a bad blogger lately, and being on vacation during Reading Week is a big part of my excuse -- vacation means Home with Baby, and at present baby means No Computer Unless I Want the Keys Torn Off of the Keyboard. Baby also means that going on…
Read More....yet again. New deadline to register a claim is March 30. Information on the case here. If you haven't heard of the case before, to sum up: In the days after periodical articles started being stored in databases, but before publications started making writers sign far-reaching contracts saying that they…
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