Now in its eighth year, Vancouver Manuscript Intensive (VMI) teams you up with an established author who helps you develop your manuscript through one-on-one editorial consultations. Unlike other programs, your VMI mentor reads and assesses your entire manuscript at...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 12A by Betsy Warland March 2009. Oscar sipping her Emerald Silver Green morning tea, gazes at backyard tree’s Matisse-like limbs against fresh blue. Oscar. Waiting for Oscar. Having worked on writing the final...
The form that Bloodroot inclined toward (and soon insisted on) was one I had never worked in before: an entries form. Later, I came to call it a faux diary or journal form. Although the entries moved back and forth in time, there was an underlying chronological...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 10 by Betsy Warland Oscar sipping morning green tea. Crow catches corner of Oscar’s eye with a sidelong glance as it sidles atop neighbour’s fence in nonchalant nervousness; flies few feet to hydrangea...
After a month or so of handwriting the beginning pieces of Bloodroot, I realized I had to pace myself even more than my plan to inscribe first drafts of Bloodroot in the mornings; do final revisions on What Holds Us Here in the afternoons. I had never before...
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