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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Field Guide to Self-Publishing
Artspace Inc, 100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB, CAREGISTER HERE: https://mbwriters.ca/field-guide-to-self-publishing/
Presented by: Den Valdron
Price: $20 members/$30 non-membersThe workshop will be an introduction and overview for writers interested in exploring options in self-publishing and small press publishing.
Along with an overall grounding in the landscape and offering a blueprint for a self-publishing pathway, we’ll provide plenty of practical tips and tricks.
Den Valdron is 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.
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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/.
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Book Chat with Harriet Zaidman
Location not specified yetThis is a virtual event. To receive the Zoom instructions so you can join us, email:
MWGEvents2022@gmail.comHarriet Zaidman will be our Featured Author at our next Book Chat. She will read from her latest novel, "What Friends Are For"., which was released in November 2025. It chronicles the debates within families and communities when Dr. Henry Morgentaler established an abortion clinic on Corydon Avenue in Winnipeg in 1983. When a teenager from a family that opposed the clinic is assaulted, she is faced with a problem she could never have predicted.
Harriet Zaidman is a children’s and freelance writer and book reviewer. Her historical novels, set in Winnipeg, are distinguished by their historical accuracy. City on Strike recalls how children from poor immigrant families were affected by the events of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike*. Second Chances* explores the consequences of the devastating polio epidemics of the 1950s, and was awarded the prestigious Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction in 2022.
Harriet is the children’s book columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press and writes for The Cottager, Lake Country Live and Living Magazine. She worked as a teacher-librarian for 25 years in Winnipeg, and now volunteers as secretary for the Seven Oaks Education Foundation and is the co-ordinator of the Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program for the Manitoba Writers’ Guild.
Following the reading, we will open the floor to discussion and any questions you may have regarding her most recent book, previous books or her writing process.
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Past events
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