The inaugural Wild Writers Festival, presented by The New Quarterly, was held from Nov 3-5, 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario. Betsy Warland offered a sold out creative non-fiction workshop and was part of panel on the personal essay, alongside Alicia Elliott, Susan Olding, and Kyle Edwards.
News & Missives
Markowitz Award Open for Submissions & Lambda Literary Announces New Prize
The 2018 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers is now open for submissions. Lambda Literary announced the news on Jan 4: “The Judith A. Markowitz Award honors LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates their strong potential for promising careers.
Betsy Warland at Growing Room 2018!
Growing Room is Room magazine’s annual literary festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists, and Betsy Warland is honoured to be included in the stellar lineup!
Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival will return this year from March 1-4!
Refugium Longlisted for George Ryga Award
Refugium, an anthology of Poems for the Pacific, edited by Victoria Poet Laureate, Yvonne Blomer, has been longlisted for the 2018 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature.
VMI application deadline extended by 3 days
The deadline for the 2018 Vancouver Manuscript Intensive has been extended to December 1, 2017!
Get to know your mentors and find out more about working with them one-on-one to develop your manuscript and prepare it for publication.
VMI Alumna Barbara Black Wins Writers’ Union Prose Competition
Barbara Black, 2017 Vancouver Manuscript Intensive alumna, has won The Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition. Black received a $2,500 cash prize for her story, “His Invertebrate Existence.”
Based out of Victoria, B.C., Black’s work has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2017 Open Season Awards and her writing has appeared in venues such as CV2 and FreeFall.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Accepting Applications
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2018. VMI is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential.
VMI mentorship begins with an in-person meeting to develop a rapport, discuss your manuscript, and confirm your goals.
Elee Kraljii Gardiner Joins Vancouver Manuscript Intensive
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is proud to welcome Elee Kraljii Gardiner to the roster of exceptional VMI mentors including Rachel Rose, Evelyn Lau, Jane Silcott, and more.
Gardiner will be editing poetry and creative nonfiction for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive.
Betsy Warland Named as Judge for Open Season Awards
Betsy Warland will judge The Malahat Review‘s 2017 Open Season Awards in the creative nonfiction category.
The Open Season Awards offer a grand total of $4500 in prize money in three categories: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
VMI Mentor on Top 10 List of Most Borrowed Books
Novelist, screenwriter, director, and VMI mentor, Karen X. Tulchinsky, made the list of the Top 10 Most Borrowed Canadian Books from the Vancouver Public Library’s collection.
The list was revealed by the Vancouver Public Library to celebrate Canadian literary contributions on Canada Day.
VMI Fiction Mentor Claudia Casper Wins Philip K. Dick Award
Congratulations to VMI Fiction mentor Claudia Casper, who has won the Philip K. Dick Award for her novel The Mercy Journals.
This prestigious prize is awarded yearly to a distinguished science fiction work published in paperback in the US.
Photos: VMI Celebrates 2017 Grads
Congratulations to this year’s VMI grads, who celebrated the completion and development of their manuscripts at the Havana Café on June 4, 2017.
Thirteen writers read from their prose, poetry, creative non-fiction, and cross-genre manuscripts, including two who came all the way from Saskatchewan and Alberta.