The Write Place
THE WRITE PLACE, the news-paper for the aspiring writer.
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Next CWS Event:
Thursday, February 16th, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Cote St Luc Aquatic and Community Centre, 7500 Mackle Road - cross street Parkhaven (driving directions - bus directions/map). Spontaneous Writing Evening. Bring your imagination, your wit, your intrigue, your anxiety, your sadness, your joy. We'll use it all.
Also, for those of you who are anxious to see your name on the published page, feel free to bring in a submission for our newspaper, The Write Place.
YOUR R.S.V.P. IS VERY IMPORTANT.
Please notify us whether you come or not. It's just as important to know who isn't coming as who is.
canadianwriterssociety@hotmail.com
Besides letting us know in advance how many people we
can expect to attend,
it also allows us to know who to notify
in case of any last minute changes in venue.
Please make sure to advise us of your attendance as soon as you can, so that we can make the appropriate arrangements.
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The inaugural edition of The Write Place is finally out and on coffee shop shelves and restaurant counters around the city. Feel free as well to visit its web site, where you can peruse its latest edition! And we have a FaceBook page as well. You can read recent news and peruse the submission guidelines, if you feel the need to write.
Beverly Akerman's new book, The Meaning of Children, is doing very well. Click here to see her televised interview with Mutsumi Takahashi or here to listen to her radio interview with CJAD's Ann Lagacé Dowson.
The City of Cote-St-Luc is having a series of De-Stress and Dig-In sessions, a Free English-Language support group.
A new 8-week workshop for emerging writers:
The Art of Writing a Good Short Story
The Canadian Writers Society is a group of writers, both aspiring and published, who believe in sharing their works and ideas with other like-minded individuals. Society activities include:
• "Reading and Feedback" evenings, where members are asked to bring in a short piece they have written, to be read in front of the members present, who will then constructively comment on the piece. The object of this exercise is to get some sort of audience feedback on our work, in order to better understand how people will interpret our pieces, and to enable us to perfect the work;
• "Imagination" evenings, where members are only asked to bring their imagination and quick wit. They will be asked to write a short piece “on the spot”, either given a single line to embellish, or a topic to expound upon. Once finished, each member will read their piece for the other members present. The object of this exercise is two-fold: to give our imaginations a workout and to open our minds to other points of view, making us realize that there is more than one direction a single thought can meander;
• Workshop evenings, where selected authors or publishers animate a hands-on workshop of techniques and tricks intended to help and enable members in their craft;
• Round Table Discussion evenings, where selected authors, publishers and other members of the industry come together to discuss topics of interest to members;
• Lecture evenings, where members can benefit from the wisdom and knowledge that selected speakers are able to impart on topics of member interest.
As well, as of the beginning of September, the CWS is launching a free newspaper, The Write Place, which will be available to the general public in select locations. Its mission will be to promote the Montreal-area unpublished writer, publishing some of their short work, while providing information that may help them in their endeavours to produce the best work they can. We will be looking forward to receiving submissions from budding Tolstoys and Hemingways.
At present, we hold two meetings a month, one at the Westmount Y Centre on Sherbrooke street, and another at the Chalet One in Cote-St-Luc’s Trudeau Park. Our year starts in August and ends in June, leaving July for vacationers’ pleasures.
Membership fees are $25.00 per year, and we usually request a small donation of $2.00 per meeting to cover the cost of coffee and cookies we usually supply, and as a donation to the Y for the use of their room.
So take a minute and see what we're all about. Come and join us at one of out meetings and find out what you've been missing.
You can find out a bit more about us on our website:
www.canadianwriterssociety.com
and you can contact us at any time at one of the following places:
by e-mail:
canadianwriterssociety@hotmail.com
by phone:
(514) 707-9396
by snail mail:
c/o 9770, boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Qc H3L 2N3
Occasionally, when we send out e-mails to our members, announcing when and where we are holding the next CWS get-together, we request an RSVP. Now we know it might be difficult for some of you to respond, but we really appreciate those who do, as it makes the planning of the event so much easier, as well as allowing us to contact those who have reserved in the event of a last minute change of venue. When we get no answer back, we find it impossible to do anything, not knowing if anyone will even be there. Since we are required to make a payment for the use of the rooms, if no one shows up, it comes directly out of our pockets. We would rather cancel the meeting and reschedule than hold a meeting for no one. A party where no one attends isn't much of a party. Please, make the effort to advise us of your intentions.
To help budding writers in their attempt to be published, we are making available online this checklist of what you should watch out for when negociating your first (and subsequent) publishing agreements:
TRADE BOOK PUBLISHING AGREEMENT CHECKLIST
If you have something you want to talk about... anything really... feel free to send us a