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City of Vancouver Book Award call for entries!

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This came from some Vancouver cultural email list I’d never seen before, via Searchgrads. Very important stuff:

Entries being accepted for City of Vancouver Book Award

    • Submissions should be sent to:
      Cultural Services Department,
      City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue,
      Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

      Couriers should be directed to 555 West 12th Avenue, East Tower, Suite 310, Vancouver.

    • April 16, 2010 – The City of Vancouver is inviting publishers and authors to submit entries for the annual City of Vancouver Book Award.

    Books of any genre that demonstrate excellence and contribute to an appreciation and understanding of Vancouver’s residents, history, or unique character are eligible to apply for the $2,000 award. The winning book must also exhibit excellence in content, illustration, design and/or format.

    Recent past winners include: Lee Henderson for The Man Game; Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome for Hope in Shadows; Michael Kluckner for Vancouver Remembered; and co-winners Jean Barman for Stanley Park’s Secret and James Delgado for Waterfront.

    An independent panel of judges will choose the winner. The shortlist of finalists will be announced in early September, and the award will be presented in October by Mayor Gregor Robertson.

    To be eligible, books must be published in 2009 or 2010 and meet the application criteria. All entries must include: four copies of the book, a $15 submission fee, and a completed entry form. Entry forms and guidelines are available from the Cultural Services Department at 555 West 12th Avenue, East Tower, Suite 310, Vancouver.

    More information and forms are also available on the City’s website at: http://vancouver.ca/bookaward.

    Deadline for entries is Wednesday, May 26, 2010.


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LITERARY WRITES COMPETITION details

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Got this in my regular VOX email from the Federation of BC Writers, a terrific group that, if you are a BC writer, you really should join!

WordWorks Magazine

WordWorks Magazine

21st ANNUAL LITERARY WRITES COMPETITION ~ Federation of BC Writers

Category:       Creative Non-fiction
Deadline:       July 25, 2010
Judges: Anthony Dalton, author & Canadian Authors Assoc. National President
Sylvia Taylor, author & Executive Director, Federation of BC Writers

First Prize: $500, Fed workshop of your choice,publication in WordWorks
Second Prize: $300, publication in WordWorks
Third Prize: $150, publication in WordWorks

Winners will be read their pieces at the Word On The Street Festival in Vancouver on September 26, 2010.
The competition is open to all BC writers and residents.
Entries must be original work, not previously published in any form. Copyright remains with the author.
Maximum 2,000 words per entry. No limit to number of entries.
Blind judging in effect: do not include your name on the manuscript.

Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, 12 font, Times New Roman, pages numbered consecutively and stapled together, title in the footer of each page. Include a cover letter with your name, address, telephone, e-mail and the title of your piece(s).

Manuscripts will NOT be returned; they are destroyed at the end of the competition.

No e-mail submissions.
Contest results posted on The Federation of BC writers website in September 2010.

Entry fee: $15 for Federation members and $20 for non-members. There is no limit to the number of entries an individual may submit but each entry must be accompanied by the entry fee. A person may win only one prize.

Make cheque payable to The Federation of BC Writers.
All contest entries must be postmarked by July 25, 2010

Mail Entries & fees to:
Literary Writes 2010
The Federation of BC Writers
PO Box 3887, Stn Terminal
Vancouver, BC V6B 3Z3

May the best BC writer win! (of course, that’s me, right?)

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Shebeen Club April Meeting: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations

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Social Media

Social Media

Who: The Shebeen Club and Wesley Regan

What: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations
$20 includes dinner and a drink

When: 7-9pm Monday, April 26th, 2010

Where: UPDATED: On The Edge gastropub, 303 Columbia at Cordova

Why: to help bring non-profit communications into the 21st Century.
And also to have a great dinner out with fellow literati

UPDATE: Note that we’ve had to move it due to the Shebeen being triple-booked that night. We are just a block East and around the corner, at 303 Columbia street around the corner from Cordova at the On The Edge gastropub.

Welcome Shebeen alumnus Wesley Regan as our presenter for the month of April! Note that our meeting’s been pushed back a week from the usual Third Monday for flu-related reasons; all better now!

When it comes to social media no one is an expert, and everyone is an expert. The effectiveness of social media tools to create lasting social change has become the gorilla in the room to social media advocates eager to pronounce a new age in communications. The jury is still out. In fact, the jury is also the defendant, judge, media, lawyers and plaintiff.  But there have been some proven benefits and some tricks discovered in the brief time social media has been adopted into mainstream communications strategies. Wes aims to bring the mystique and hyperbole of social media down to earth, exploring its practical uses for environmental, political and social activism, and recounts some of his personal experiences on the social media frontier.

Wesley Regan has worked in marketing and communications since 2004, primarily in health and wellness and community economic development. He is currently the Communications Liaison at Building Opportunities with Business, a community economic development non-profit group active in Vancouver’s inner-city since 2005, and is the Industry Trends Blogger for Thirdi Software, a Yaletown based internet marketing and eCommerce firm. His commentary on technology, social media and economic development in Vancouver has also been featured in Techvibes.

7-7:30 Meet and Greet

7:30-8 Listen and Learn

8-9 Eat, Drink and Be Merry! Or Pippin, if you prefer!

Find us on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50587958868&ref=ts

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Blogging for Writers Telecourse starts April 21st! No it starts May 18th!

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Deadlines in the monitor may be closer than they appear

Deadlines in the monitor may be closer than they appear

My ten-week Blogging for Writers course begins online 7-8:30pm Wednesday, April 21st 6:30-8 Tuesday, May 18th and runs subsequent Tuesdays 7-8:30 and once a week for a total of ten weeks. You don’t need any blogging experience; we’ll build the blog right in the first class. You do need a computer with a mic, so you can join the Skype conversation, or you need an ability to type almost as fast as you think so you can textSkype and keep up. And, obviously, an internet connection of better than dialup speeds.

Here are the full details:

Blogging for Writers

Learn how to get the most out of blogs for promotion, sales, networking and (unexpectedly) to improve your writing.

In this hands-on workshop we’ll  cover setting up a blog, connecting with and managing an audience, using the blog for promotion and sales, and how a blog can make you a better writer, working our way through writers’ exercises and gathering feedback from the class. Be prepared to participate!

The discipline of a daily blogger is a prerequisite to developing a body of work that functions as your online portfolio. Use your blogging as a tool to develop a powerful, confident voice and tackle writing challenges in a supportive, low-pressure environment. Includes exercises and benchmarks to help you analyze your progress and keep your work growing even after the class ends.

I’ve offered this in abbreviated form before; this will be the first complete course, as opposed to an afternoon or a day’s work. There WILL be homework, and it WILL be checked (in fact, it’s due 24 hours before the next class, so I have time to check all the work).

Cost is $250, email bloggingclasses at gmail dot com to register.

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Edgar Allan Poe speaks out about Plagiarism

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Amen to that. But silence about HPL???

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