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The News highlights the accomplishments of TWS community members, literary news, events and HOT OPPS: information on important local writing opportunities. The News is edited by Tanyss Knowles (TWS 2009).
Send news items to newstips@thewritersstudio.ca. Posts are published Tuesday mornings.
March TWS Readings Series: Friday the 12th at Take 5 Cafe - posted March 9th, 2010
Langara College: Information Session on Haiku Journey through Japan - posted February 27th, 2010
TWS Alumni and Faculty Shortlisted in CBC Competition - posted February 27th, 2010
The Real Vancouver Writers Series is going on right now - posted February 16th, 2010
Short Range Poetic Device by Roger Farr and Stephen Collis - posted February 16th, 2010
Thursdays Writing Collective Joins Candahar Art Bar - posted February 16th, 2010
In The Red Magazine Looking for Submissions - posted February 7th, 2010
BlackOut At The Candahar: Collaborative Installation - posted February 7th, 2010
First Annual Galiano Literary Festival - posted February 1st, 2010
Renee Sarojini Saklikar (TWS 09/10): Published by Leaf Press - posted February 1st, 2010
Duthie Books Closing - posted January 27th, 2010
Renee Sarojini Saklikar (TWS 2009/10): Published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine and The Vancouver Review - posted January 13th, 2010
Banff Centre: Call for Applications - posted January 13th, 2010
TWS reading series: Jan 15th at new location - posted January 9th, 2010
HOT OPP: The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Professional Development Symposium - posted January 9th, 2010
Melissa Sawatsky (TWS 2006): Published in Sad Mag - posted January 4th, 2010
Janet Hong (TWS 2007) and Ayelet Tsabari (TWS 2007) Published in Morphogenesis - posted December 24th, 2009
Aileen Penner (TWS 2005): Published in Chroma Journal - posted December 17th, 2009
Gurjinder Basran (TWS 2006): Winner of the Great BC Novel Contest - posted December 17th, 2009
1st Book Competition - posted November 26th, 2009
Launch and Reading of the virtual chapbook, “Thursdays: 3.0: These Words” - posted November 21st, 2009
Vaughan Chapman (TWS 2006): Second place in Geist’s Fortune Cookie Contest - posted November 15th, 2009
December’s TWS Reading Series - posted November 15th, 2009
Venue Change: Oana AVASILICHIOAEI & Erín MOURE - posted November 15th, 2009
John Mavin (TWS 2006): One-Act Play in The Prairie Journal - posted November 7th, 2009
Launch of Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure’s Expeditions of a Chimæra - posted November 7th, 2009
Cancelation:TWS Readings at Blenz (November 13th) - posted November 2nd, 2009
HOT OPP: Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2010 Deadline and Faculty - posted November 2nd, 2009
Book Launch: Wintertide, an anthology by North Shore Writers - posted November 2nd, 2009
Banff New Media Institute: Scholarships, programs, and opportunities - posted October 24th, 2009
Special tribute to DTES Poet - Bud Osborn - posted October 24th, 2009
Gurjinder Basran (TWS 2006) Shortlisted for Publication Prize - posted October 22nd, 2009
Tanyss Knowles (TWS 2009): New TWS News Editor - posted October 19th, 2009
Event: Poets Against War - posted October 18th, 2009
Michelle Elrick (TWS 2005): To Speak, a new poetry collection - posted October 16th, 2009
Melissa Sawatsky (TWS 2006): Q&A with author Steven Pressfield - posted October 16th, 2009
Tribute to Robin Blaser, David Dawson, Kuldip Gill and Billy Little - posted October 11th, 2009
“one cool word” writing contest - posted October 11th, 2009
Share space with the Tyee - posted October 11th, 2009
InfluencyWest – A Literary Salon - posted September 29th, 2009
Ayelet Tsabari (TWS 2007): short story in Room - posted September 22nd, 2009
Malahat Review Open Season Awards Deadline November 1 - posted September 14th, 2009
Vaughan Chapman (TWS 2006) reading September 24th - posted September 14th, 2009
Rhonda Waterfall (TWS 2003): The Only Thing I Have book launch - posted September 14th, 2009
Eufemia Fantetti (TWS 2007) & Ayelet Tsabari (TWS 2007): Winners, Event Creative Non-Fiction Contest - posted September 14th, 2009
Writers’ Union of Canada writing competitions - posted September 14th, 2009
Warden wanted for Joy Kogawa House - posted September 14th, 2009
Call for submissions: adoption stories - posted September 14th, 2009
3-Day Novel Contest deadline: September 4 - posted August 12th, 2009
Geoffrey W. Cole (TWS 2007): short story & anthology - posted July 21st, 2009
Matrix Magazine call for submissions - posted July 21st, 2009
Banff Centre Locative Cinema Commission deadline Aug 3 - posted July 21st, 2009
The Line Has Shattered symposium Aug 14 - posted July 21st, 2009
Banff Centre Liminal Screen residency, deadline Aug 31 - posted July 21st, 2009
Esquire Magazine’s Fiction Contest deadline: August 1st - posted July 14th, 2009
Actors & Writers: Cold Reading Series - posted July 14th, 2009
Vaughan Chapman (TWS 2006): a short story & 2 poems - posted July 14th, 2009
HOT OPPS: This Magazine’s annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt - Fiction & Poetry - posted June 10th, 2009
David Mount (TWS 2001): new play @ Walking Fish Festival - posted June 10th, 2009
HOT OPPS: The Caledonia Review, call for submissions - posted June 10th, 2009
HOT OPPS: Clark-Nova Books accepting young writers’ fiction - posted June 8th, 2009
HOT OPPS: Wired Writing Studio June application deadlines - posted June 2nd, 2009
Insiya Rasiwala (TWS 2008) in Ascent Magazine - posted June 1st, 2009
TWS received a $6,900 grant from Vancity - posted May 28th, 2009
Elee Kraljii Gardiner (TWS 2006) in Mothering Magazine - posted May 1st, 2009
Word Plays: a celebration of new writing - posted April 27th, 2009
EVENT magazine’s Annual Non-Fiction Contest - posted April 7th, 2009
Insiya Rasiwala (TWS 2008) in the Tyee & Quills - posted April 1st, 2009
John Mavin (TWS 2006): “Sanctuary” staged reading @ UBC - posted March 18th, 2009
HOT OPPS: Mother Tongue Publishing seeks great BC novel (or novella) - posted March 10th, 2009
HOT OPPS: Ms. Guided call for submissions - posted March 10th, 2009
Room Magazine’s annual fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction contest - posted March 10th, 2009
TWS 2008 emerge readings: call for readers - posted February 17th, 2009
Sweet and Sour: Alternative Valentine Reading Feb 12 - posted February 10th, 2009
Geoff Cole (TWS 2007) podcast of “Shaded Streams Run Clearest” - posted February 10th, 2009
Born Magazine accepting submissions Jan-July - posted February 10th, 2009
VIWF: Spoken World & Workshop - posted February 3rd, 2009
“thursdays” Chapbook launch @ The Brickhouse - posted January 27th, 2009
Geoff Cole (TWS 2007): Teaching Bigfoot to Read - posted January 27th, 2009
Christopher Geisel, Shana Myara (TWS 2006): Geist Short Long-Distance Fiction Contest - posted January 19th, 2009
2008 Borders Original Voices Winner: Steven Galloway, fiction - posted January 19th, 2009
Geist workshop: Art of the Short Review - posted January 19th, 2009
Clarissa P Green (TWS 2007): Winner, 2008 VIWF Short Story Contest - posted January 19th, 2009
Banff Literary Arts: Application deadlines reminder - posted January 19th, 2009
PRISM Poetry & Fiction Contest deadline approaching - posted January 16th, 2009
HOT OPPS: Writing as a Career Workshop - posted January 16th, 2009
2009 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational - posted January 7th, 2009
Reading: Thursdays, poems and prose from the DTES - posted January 7th, 2009
The Banff Centre: upcoming application deadlines - posted December 16th, 2008
First TWS Scholarship Awarded - posted December 16th, 2008
DTES Writers’ Jamboree recap - posted December 16th, 2008
Insiya Rasiwala-Finn (TWS 2008) in the Tyee - posted December 9th, 2008
HOT OPPS: Call for Papers, Landscape, Self, and Intercultural Narratives - posted December 9th, 2008
Rachel Thompson (TWS 2004): three poems - posted December 9th, 2008
Whistler Writers Group to host Boyden, Boyden, Galloway and Rogers in Feb - posted December 9th, 2008
EVENT magazine’s Annual Non-Fiction Contest - posted December 2nd, 2008
Steven Galloway, Borders Original Voices nominee - posted December 2nd, 2008
TWS Reading Series: Literary Extravaganza, Dec 11 - posted December 2nd, 2008
Jonina Kirton (TWS 2007, AW 2009): six months, seven poems - posted November 25th, 2008
Trish Holmes (TWS 2002): Doctoral candidate, Creative Writing - posted November 25th, 2008
TWS News Editor
TANYSS KNOWLES (TWS 2009) joined The Writers Studio while pursuing a degree in anthropology from SFU.
Having grown up bouncing around Asia and North America, she is working on a multi-genre memoir about growing up as a Canadian in South East Asia. Her work also focuses on Cambodian politics and development.