About us
This page is intended to bring together events of interest to the writing community in Winnipeg. The host groups are the Manitoba Writers' Guild, Association of Manitoba Book Publishers, Society for Technical Communication (Manitoba chapter), The Writers' Collective of Manitoba, and the Editors' Association of Canada. To register for any event listed on this page, follow the instructions in the post; an RSVP on the page does not guarantee you a spot. Here's to great writing!
Upcoming events
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World Building Workshop with Den Valdron
Artspace Inc, 100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB, CAWhen: Sunday, April 26, 2-4 pm
Where: Boardroom of ArtSpace, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg
Cost: $50 for members, $65 for non-membersREGISTER AT: https://mbwriters.ca/product/worldbuildingworkshop/
Topic to be covered include:
- How do you kill a Vampire?
- The purpose of World Building to inspire creativity, not strangle it.
- Build any world you want!
- Why do World Building? What’s the purpose? How much do you need?
- Making a setting.
- Different approaches to World building.
- How do you build a world? Do you need to build a world?
- Basics
…and much more!
Workshop includes references and handouts.
About the facilitator, Dennis Valdron:
With Den Valdron, a speculative fiction writer, pop-culture essayist and aboriginal rights lawyer, living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a writer, his short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies in North America, Britain, Australia and Russia. He has several collections of speculative fiction and horror stories and novels. He’s also published extensive nonfiction about Canadian Sci Fi – LEXX and Starlost, Cult television and movies, including Doctor Who, and topics as diverse as writing, publishing, self-publishing, 1930’s pulps, Lovecraft, Burroughs, Godzilla and nerd culture. His website and blog are at denvaldron.com.1 attendee
MWG Memoir and Creative Non-Fiction Critique Circle (Zoom)
·OnlineOnlineEmail RSVP to MWGcritique@gmail.com to sign up!
The Memoir and Creative Non-Fiction Critique Circle is free-to-members-only, and allows participants to share a piece of writing to be critiqued by the facilitator(s), as well as the other participants.
Facilitated by Jenn Tesoro and Danie Botha on the last Tuesday of each month.
If you would like to take part, please email MWGcritique@gmail.com for links and instructions on how to join this virtual session.
Please use the email subject "NONFICTION CRITIQUE SESSION" and indicate which session you would like to join.
Time constraints limit the number of attendees per session, but if you don’t get a chance to join the session you want, you will be put on a waiting list for next available spot.
You can learn more about our critique groups at https://mbwriters.ca/programs/critique-group/.
If you are not a Guild member and would like to take advantage of our critique circles, you can learn more about membership at https://mbwriters.ca/membership/become-a-member/.
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MWG Prose Critique Circle (Virtual) with Gabriele Goldstone and Bobbi-Jo Grant
·OnlineOnlineEmail RSVP to MWGcritique@gmail.com to sign up!
The Prose Critique Circle is free-to-members-only, and allows participants to share a piece of writing to be critiqued by the facilitator(s), as well as the other participants.
Facilitators Gabriele Goldstone and Bobbi-Jo Grant host this Prose Critique Circle on the second Tuesday each month.
If you would like to take part, please email MWGcritique@gmail.com for links and instructions on how to join this virtual session.
Please use the email subject "PROSE CRITIQUE SESSION" and indicate which session you would like to join. (We are now running two sessions per month).
Time constraints limit the number of attendees per session, but if you don’t get a chance to join the session you want, you will be put on a waiting list for next available spot.
You can learn more about our critique groups at https://mbwriters.ca/programs/critique-group/.
If you are not a Guild member and would like to take advantage of our critique circles, you can learn more about membership at https://mbwriters.ca/membership/become-a-member/.
2 attendees
Past events
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