writing
Khyber Comic Jam
Date: Monday, August 6, 2012 - 6:00pm
Location
Khyber Centre for the Arts
1588 Barrington Street
Halifax, NS
Canada
44° 38' 45.3336" N, 63° 34' 24.2796" W
See map: Google Maps
Happens on the first Monday of every month.
Bring your pen for mingling and comic drawing. Together the group will create their own story, square by square.
Writing Tips! (I don't have any writing tips)
There has been a surplus of information these days about writing: writing tips, how-tos, don't, programs, everything!
Ann Friedman gave her great list of tips for writing, book riot is constantly quoting famous authors' beliefs on writing, #writingtips is blowing up.
Montreal Night: Montreal transplants and Calgary writers discuss the city and their experiences
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location
Shelf Life Books
100 1302-4th Street SW
Calgary, AB
T2R 0X8
Canada
51° 2' 26.448" N, 114° 4' 17.3244" W
See map: Google Maps
Who doesn't love Montreal -- the city, the ideas? How does spending early years in Montreal affects a writer's work?
Join Rona Altrows, Susan Calder, Barbara Schleifer and Julie Sedivy, four Calgary writers, all Montreal transplants, who have never lost their passion for the old sod, with brief readings, open discussion, book sales and mingling.
TSMG -- Five screenwriting workshops
Date: Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
National Film Board - Downtown Toronto
150 John St. at Richmond St. W
Toronto, ON
M5V 3C3
Canada
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W
See map: Google Maps
TSMG - The Foundations of the Successful Screenplay
Launch party for Parkdale Street Writers zine
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street W
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 38' 33.216" N, 79° 25' 37.6212" W
See map: Google Maps
Celebrate new writing by the Parkdale Street Writers!
Party to launch our new zine Underground Inspirations with performances by contributors plus special guests LAL and Abstract Random!
Free! fun! snacks! cake! readings! books!
DJ! art! performances! really nice people!
More info about the event or Parkdale Street Writers: 416-779-1448 or info@parkdalewriters.ca
We are grateful to our community partners (Lakeview Lunch, Toronto Public Library, Small Print) and our sponsors (Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Celebrate Canada Fund, Diaspora Dialogues).
TSMG presents: How to be funding ready featuring Judy Gladstone
Date: Sunday, August 7, 2011 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location
National Film Board - Downtown Toronto
150 John St. at Richmond St. W
Toronto, ON
M5V 3C3
Canada
Phone:
647 376 5969
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W
See map: Google Maps
On Women Writers
So, this story broke while I was on holiday. Racist, colonialist, misogynist, Islamophobic and nobel-prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul declared in a Guardian interview that no woman writer was his equal (not even Jane Austen):
Ode to the Type-writer
Here is a secret: I am obsessed with the typewriter. It is an amazing little machine.