Blogging for Writers: a reading list

Shakespeare blogging

Shakespeare blogging

I’m only putting this down/posting it up while I think of it so I don’t lose it: it’s the reference list I used to create Blogging for Writers, also known as Blogging As Writer’s Practice. Feel free to read them all yourself, but then feel guilty enough to register for the class anyway.

For Journaling:

  • Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer’s Life by Bonni Goldberg
  • The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity by Tristine Rainer
  • Life’s Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest by Christina Baldwin
  • Word Play, Word Power: A Woman’s Personal Growth Workbook by Kimberley Snow

For Writing Exercises and Education:

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English, Motherfucker

English, Motherfucker!

ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER!

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Banff Centre Writing Programs: call for applications

From an email:

Call for Applications
Call for Applications
2010 Writing Studio

 

April 26 – May 29, 2010
Application deadline: November 27, 2009

Literary Arts director: Steven Ross Smith
Program directors: Greg Hollingshead
Faculty:
Fiction and other narrative prose: Warren Cariou, Jennifer Glossop, Lee Henderson, Daphne Marlatt, Meg Wolitzer
Poetry: Stephanie Bolster, John Glenday, Don McKay

The Writing Studio is a five-week program offering poets and writers of fiction and other narrative prose the time, space, and support they need to pursue a writing project.

More information

Other Writing Opportunities:

 

Winter Self-Directed Writing Residency

January 4 – March 31, 2010
Application deadline: December, 4, 2009

Set amid the beauty of Canada’s oldest and most renowned national park, The Banff Centre offers and exceptional environment for creativity. Self-directed writing residencies provide time, space, and facilities for individual research, editing, and manuscript development. Writers structure their own time, and are free to maintain privacy or to engage with other artists and activities at The Banff Centre.

More information

For more Information please contact:

 

1-403-762-6100
arts_info@banffcentre.ca
www.banffcentre.ca

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Meet Michael Turner

Michael Turner, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Michael Turner, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Another from an email, in this case the Instant Coffee email for artists in BC, which is a newish thing I’m really loving. There’s a website, too.

MICHAEL TURNER

SFU’s new Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence

Friday October 2, 7:30pm
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1400

Sponsored by the SFU Department of English, the Office of the SFU Dean of Arts and Social
Sciences, the Office of SFU President Michael Stevenson, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Michael Turner is an important Canadian writer and cultural figure who is well known for his novels, poetry, screen plays and art criticism. His first book of poetry, Company Town (1991) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. With Hard Core Logo (1993) and American Whiskey Bar (1997)
— both of which have been adapted to the screen — Turner moves into a mixed genre practice, creating fragmentary narratives that combine aspects of the novel, poetry and the film script. His
1999 novel The Pornographer’s Poem, published by Doubleday Canada, won the B.C. Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Award; a screen adaptation is also once again in development. His new novel, 8
x 10 (Doubleday Canada) is being launched at this event.

The Ties That Bind…and Choke

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