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Blogging for Writers: a reading list

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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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Banff Centre Writing Programs: call for applications

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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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Pay the Writer! by Harlan Ellison

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You’re gonna love this. At least, you’re gonna love this if you’re sick and tired of being expected to work for free. Well, if you’re sick and tired of working for free and not phased by rampant, spittle-flecked profanity. I, myself, find it’s my metier.

Frankly, after that I’d be too SCARED not to pay him.

Journalism is Dead, Long Live Journalism!

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Here’s an event that landed in my mailbox. Too bad I don’t live in Toronto; sounds interesting!

Canadian Journalism Foundation

Canadian Journalism Foundation

Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism
How the web is reinventing journalism

There’s no debate that journalism is in the midst of an alarming transition. Newspaper circulation figures, advertising revenues, job openings and journalists’ wages have been in a downward slide for several years. At the same time, the internet has given birth to new forms of journalism. Green shoots are emerging in the form of online news gathering and reporting, the rise of social media, citizen journalism and crowdsourced news.

This is where the debate begins. What will these changes mean for democracy? Is there a business model for quality journalism? And what will the jobs of the future look like?

Join Rem Rieder, editor and publisher of the American Journalism Review, in conversation with Ira Basen, CBC writer and producer of “News 2.0: The Future of News in the Age of Social Media”, as they explore these questions and more.

There is no cost to attend, but guests must register (see link below). After the presentation there will be a Q&A with the audience followed by a cocktail reception.

You are invited to the following event:
Journalism is Dead; Long Live Journalism

Date:
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (ET)

Location:
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Ave.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J5
Canada

https://theshebeenclub.com/2009/09/02/journalism-is-dead-long-live-journalism/

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For more information click here

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Eustace Tilley gets a makeover

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Johnny Depp is mad as a hatter if he thinks that lipstick works for him

It’s the 21st Century, folks. That “Edwardian Dandy” look may be okay for Johnny Depp, but if you’re not as gifted in the “devastating physical beauty” category, it’s critical to keep your look modern and fresh. To that effort, the esteemed (if hardly ever, you know, read) New Yorker magazine sponsored a makeover of its beloved, if fusty, mascot, Eustace Tilley.

You can click through all the selected winners (in the finest tradition of literary magazines, I believe not one of them got paid) or you can scroll below to see some of my personal favorites. Yes, I’m a little bit Goth. What can I say: everything old is new again.

Big Daddy Tilley

Big Daddy Tilley

Tilley Makeover Horror

Tilley Makeover Horror

Mr Burns is a Tilley for the new century

Mr Burns is a Tilley for the new century

Zombie Tilley. So hot right now.

Zombie Tilley. So hot right now.

Eustace Tilley goes sci-fi

Eustace Tilley goes sci-fi

and my favorite, and not just because that stupid Facebook quiz told me I was Dorian Gray:

The Picture of Eustace Tilley

The Picture of Eustace Tilley

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This is a post for Blogathon, by the way.