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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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/.
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Book Chat with L. T. Getty
·OnlineOnlinePlease join us for our upcoming virtual Book Chat with Manitoban author L. T. Getty, who will read from her latest novel A Fable of Wood and String and answer questions from the audience..
To attend, please email MWGEvents2022@gmail.com, and request the Zoom instructions.
About the author:
L.T. Getty is a paramedic who mostly writes science fiction and fantasy.
Follow L. T. Getty on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/leiagetty/.About A Fable of Wood and String:
Would it hurt you to just do as you're told?
The O'Connell siblings live in the shadow of their parent's past, held back by obligation to keep the people of Stagmil safe when their father has to lead the non-hunters of their village to drive off a wyvern.
Lily doesn't trust the stranger who calls herself Madeline when she staggers into the pastoral lands. The puppeteer seems to take an interest in Lily's talent with the family mandolin, and she teaches Lily new music. Lily's had songs stuck in her head before, but nothing like this.
Twins Seth and Tiffany however can't wait for their father to return so they can get on with the shearing. Seth should at least be helping hunt the wyvern, and Tiffany wants to take her best friend Molly and head to the nearest city and see the world.
The twins and several other villagers are lured by song into the woods and transformed into marionettes: Seth breaking free before he can be strung, and Lily tainted in a way she doesn't understand. They have the skills to track the woman down, but to restore Seth to his body, and rescue Tiffany and the others?
Tracking the woman takes them far from the familiar woodlands they know, across the sea to an enchanted castle, where in an effort to rescue their sister they'll learn something much more sinister than turning folk into puppets is going on. They'll get help, of course, but not from who they expected.
After all, last Seth checked, foxes are only supposed to have the one tail.
List of Published Books by L. T. Getty:
- Dreams of Mariposa
- Witchslayer's Scion (The Rogue Healer Book 1)
- Magus Gambit (The Rogue Healer Book 2)
- The Mermaid and the Unicorns
- A Fable of Wood & String
- Garnet & Silver: A Faerie Tale
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Past events
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