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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.”
New! VMI Plot & Structure Workshop with Kathryn Para
Plot and Structure with Kathryn Para, MFA Shortlisted: Ethel Wilson Fiction
Winner: Great BC Novel Contest
Whether you’re writing short or long, literary or genre fiction, for the stage, screen or web, your story needs a plot. We will discuss how to develop your character’s needs and desires into internal and external plots and use specific writing tools to focus your plot threads and embed your theme. Then we’ll explore causality and how it drives the plot and brings your story to a satisfying end.
Self-Editing: The Layers’ Technique Workshop in Vancouver
Cost: $200 plus GST (10.00) total $210 includes refreshments Dates & times: October 23, 7 pm-9:00 pm, October 24, 9:30 am- 5:30 pm Register: Workshop is limited to 12 writers. Register with...
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