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Minding Your Manuscript at SFU
Every manuscript is a story, regardless of the genre or subject. In this course, you will learn how to develop your manuscript mind—how to shift from smaller narrative units to accurately identifying the unique, overall story of your entire manuscript.
We’ll also discuss strategies for dealing with practical concerns—what does and does not fit in your manuscript? What new writing does it need? How do you know when you’re finished?
You will hear a successful first-time author talk about what he or she learned, including the process of assessing his or her manuscript as well as publishing and promoting it.
Apply to Art Song Lab 2016
Art Song Lab is seeking applications for writers to join the 2016 program. 12 writers will be chosen to work with composers on creating a new song. Information including past recordings can be found...
Do you have a question about the writing craft?
Attention writers! Do you have a question about the writing craft that you would like answered by one of the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive mentors? We are looking for submissions of questions for...
Deadline for VMI is Tuesday, November 17
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive deadline is fast approaching. We’re accepting applications of your best creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and mixed-genre writing up until Tuesday, November...
VMI’s Writer Q and A for November: Writing as Bridge
I see all writing as a kind of translation that “bears across,” is a conveyance of an idea across the bridge from a mind to a page. But I wonder to what extent is this task possible? Does...
Oscar of Between is on its way to becoming a book!
Hello dear readers, writers and those who are both, Oscar of Between is on its way to becoming a book! After my most recent introduction, in which I mentioned that Oscar of Between seemed to also be...
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2016 — Apply November 17, 2015
Writers of all genres are welcomed to apply to the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2016. Whether you have begun a manuscript, have a body of work that needs shaping into a manuscript, or have...
A Book A Month Giveaway for October
Enter to win an inscribed copy of Betsy’s book, Proper Deafinitions, during the month of October.
The sixteen collected texts and essays in Proper Deafinitions continue to be as deeply subversive and visionary as they were when it was published in 1990. Louise Forsyth wrote “Her voice celebrates in generosity and with subtle humour the shimmering notion of women as seekers, as thinkers, as creators…” and US author Julie R. Enszer recently wrote, “Warland’s textual innovations on the page were powerful and shattering…seem to imagine what was to come with the advances in hypertext…web browsers and more interactive texts online.”
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