Author reading: Tues. Oct. 13 with Wanda St.Hilaire

At our next meeting on Tuesday, October 13, the Calgary Writing Collective will feature its first guest speaker: Wanda St.Hilaire, author of The Cuban Chronicles: A True Tale of Rascals, Rogue, and Romance. Having just met Wanda at her September book launch at Indigo, I was intrigued by her sense of adventure and enthusiasm for writing and travel. Wanda will give a short reading from her new book and discuss her publishing process with the group.
If you'd like to know more about Wanda, check out her site Destinations Extraordinaire.

If you have an idea for the next 10-minute writing exercise (and I do mean any kind of inspiration: photo, pocket squares, pigeons, prosciutto or anything else that may or may not start with 'p'), please e-mail me alisonbracegirdle@gmail.com

If you're heading to the Calgary International Film Festival starting this week, make sure to check out the CIFF blog (he, he, I'm one of the bloggers).

The Calgary Writing Collective is a friendly meet-up for writers at any stage of a literary project (short stories, novels, screenplays etc.) Bring anything you wish to share and a notepad for inspiration and impromptu writing exercises.

See you next month:
Tuesday, October 13 7 p.m. at the Auburn Saloon (163 - 115 - 9th Ave SE bottom of the Calgary Tower)

Collective meets tomorrow

Hello there brave wired scribe.
Maybe you know all about us, maybe you don't. The Calgary Writing Collective meets the second Tuesday of every month, which means, drumroll please... we're meeting tomorrow.
The Calgary Writing Collective is a friendly meet-up for writers at any stage of a literary project (short stories, novels, screenplays etc.) Bring anything you wish to share and a notepad for inspiration and impromptu writing exercises.

See you tomorrow!

FFWD Calgary Writing Contest... sans vowels

Drew Anderson, the Arts and Lifestyle Editor from FFWD magazine, just passed on news of a writing contest. FFWD is running a writing contest to launch Christian Bok's new edition of Eunoia.
There will be an ad in Thursdays paper, but the rough deal is: write 200-300 words in the style of Eunoia. In other words, without using a vowel of your choice throughout. Winners (top three) will be printed in the October 8 issue and will have the opportunity to join Bok on the 8th for the launch at Pages.
Unless otherwise indicated this week, send entries to danderson@ffwd.greatwest.ca

bst of luck ;)