Join us on June 10th to launch the Calgary Writing Collective

Welcome to the Calgary Writing Collective's blog. Our first meeting will be Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Auburn Saloon (bottom of the Calgary Tower, 163-115 9 Ave. S.E.)

We want this group to inspire and encourage creative writers but also to provide creative accountability for the progress of our individual projects; be they short stories, screenplays, novels or something in between.
We will be publishing works from the collective here on this blog and there will be a semi-annual publication of our collective's writing as well.
Here's what the Calgary Writing Collective is all about:

Dates
Second Tuesday of every month with the first one on Tuesday, June 10.

Location
Our first meeting will be at Calgary's theatre bar, the Auburn Saloon (bottom of the Calgary Tower, 163-115 9 Ave. S.E.).

Nature of the collective
We'll be alternating the activities of our collective every other month so that time can be spent preparing to write, sharing our writing and publishing our writing. The first month we'll come up with a creative theme to write about and writing exercises will be available for those who want them.
The next month we'll compare notes on our work, whether it was based on the previous month's theme or your own ideas. This allows you to have at least a month to work on your writing and time to get feedback from the group, if you wish.

Our blog
We will publish some of our brainstorms, stories and works from members who wish to publish on this blog. This will also be a place to check out local literary events and writing competitions.

Our publication
After our first meeting we'll plan out how often and in what format we'll publish collections of our work.

Our events
The Calgary Writing Collective's meetings, local literary events and tons of writing competition deadlines will be published on the blog's calendar. If you have any to add, please send them to alisonbracegirdle@gmail.com

Alison Bracegirdle's brief bio
I'm just beginning my foray into fiction having recently been a journalist/editor/producer with CBC, Avenue magazine and the Calgary Herald. I work at iStockphoto.com as a writer and editor and I've been writing short stories and attempting screenplays for about 6 months (or more, if you count childhood novellas and plays written in my tree fort on a clunky typewriter).

I hope to see you on Tuesday, June 10. Please RSVP to alisonbracegirdle@gmail.com, so I have an idea of how large a table to reserve.