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“Writing the Between” Sunshine Coast Writing Workshop
Although the between is something we most often try to steer away from, writers working in all genres need to engage with forms of between-ness.
Whether it’s between doubt and confidence, what it’s about or seems not to be about; whether it’s between forms/genres, languages, time frames, cultures/race, identities, art forms or what’s true and isn’t true, between-ness is a dynamic site for writing and for art that involves the written word.
A Book A Month Giveaway for July
Every month until the end of December 2015, we are giving away one incribed book by Betsy Warland.* This month, we are giving away serpent (w)rite: (a reader’s gloss), now out of print.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Reading this Sunday
Join us for our Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2015 Reading on June 7th at 3PM at the Havana Café theatre at the back of the café. Audiences have commented that this is one of the most enjoyable readings they’ve attended so do mark it on your calendar.
A Book A Month Giveaway for June
Every month until the end of December 2015, we are giving away one incribed book by Betsy Warland.* This month, we are giving away Two Women in a Birth, co-written by Daphne Marlatt.
A Book A Month Giveaway for May
Every month until the end of December 2015, we are giving away one incribed book by Betsy Warland.* This month, we are giving away Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing.
Twelve years in the making, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing is a must-read for students of creative writing. This collection is comprised of two sets of twelve essays each. “Materials” reflects on the history and animate nature of the objects we use in the act of writing, from computers, to pens and pencils, right down to paper.
New Workshop: Self-Editing: The Layers’ Technique
Even when we are motivated to self-edit our work, it can seem a confusing and amorphous task. In this workshop, writers with a group of poems, several short stories or creative nonfiction pieces, as well as writers with a manuscript will learn The Layers’ Technique. This practical method—comprised of series of micro to macro layers of editing—is based on Betsy’s decades of working with other writers. An author who recently learned an aspect of this technique said “the simplest changes made a tremendous impact.”
TWS Reading Series Celebrates 15 Years
The Writer's Studio Reading Series is hosting a special reading event to celebrate their 15th year anniversary. As the founder of the programBetsy as the featured reader for the night. In addition,...
Oscar’s plans for a book!
This January, in my Welcome to Oscar’s Salon, I wrote: “With 2015 we enter the third and final year of Oscar’s Salon.” Since then, I have discovered “Not so!” In March I elbowed out three weeks of writing time and wrote the final section of Oscar of Between, then read the entire manuscript. I haven’t read it in its entirety since 2012. Then it was comprised of Part 1 – 21.
The complete manuscript is now Part 1 – 36. Honestly, I was surprised by how engrossing a read it is in print. Subsequently, I realized two things: that the salon’s abridged version of Oscar will run until July 2016; that Oscar of Between needs to exist in print book format. Many of you have told me how much you love the salon (as do I). Yet, more of you have told me you want to read it in book format and you were right.
Ideally, I’d like the book come out while Oscar’s Salon is still “live.” Then readers can bridge between the richness of the salon’s accompanying, provocative voices and images, and the continuity of the book’s complete narrative. Wish me luck!
-Betsy ala Oscar
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