How I Utilized My Weaving Words Festival of Storytellers Education Grant By Cynthia St-Pierre With the exception of journaling—and even then I would argue that a journaler is writing unconscious thoughts down in order to … Read more
Books, books, and MORE books were on the menu Saturday July 7th at the WCYR’s Bookshelf Book Fair! We had an absolutely fabulous day at the Lion’s Community Centre in Newmarket sharing our stories with … Read more
Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty By: Loni Cameron The most recent WCYR event hosted a Lunch and Critique. As we arrived, we helped ourselves to a sandwich, some vegetables or fruit, and joined a … Read more
How I Utilized My Grant at the Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference By: Craig Hodgins From May 20 to May 24 I attended the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in North Carolina. This is … Read more
What’s Weighing You Down? By Loni Cameron For the May seminar, author Mary Sullivan and editor Wanda Ottewell took us through how to fix the “Sagging Middle” – the place in the middle of a … Read more
Our first annual Writers’ Grant Awards is a success! On Tuesday May 15th the WCYR announced the winners of our 1st annual Writers’ Grant Awards. Three enthusiastic winners received their certificates and have until December … Read more
What’s a Wattpad??!? By Loni Cameron April’s free member-run workshop brought us an in depth look at the writing website, Wattpad. A good mix of writers, both familiar and not, were present to learn about … Read more
And the Winners Are… By: Nanci Pattenden Earlier this year, WCYR partnered with Cardinal Press Espresso Bar for their first writing contest. It was a prompt-driven contest, with the writing and editing all taking place … Read more
An Annual General Meeting, Elections, and A Self-Publishing Success Story! By: Loni Cameron March’s meeting had three parts: 2018’s Annual General Meeting, our Elections, and an insightful speaker. Board Chair, MJ Moores started the meeting … Read more
Ready! Set! Action! By MJ Moores Many writers allow themselves to daydream about the idea of their novel being made into a movie, but often feel that it’s too lofty a goal for which to … Read more
Calling All Volunteers! By: Loni Cameron Volunteer with Us! It takes a lot of people to run the WCYR. Everyone from me, doing the relatively small job of blogging, to MJ Moores, our current Board … Read more
Get Out and Vote! By: Loni Cameron The Annual General Meeting & WCYR Board Elections for 2018 will be held Sunday, March 18th, 2018 at the Newmarket Lion’s Community Centre – 200 Doug Duncan Drive, Newmarket … Read more
Rise and Revise Again! By Loni Cameron This past Thursday was the third of our member-led workshops. Kim McDougall took us on a journey through the process she created for revising her work. Though … Read more
Going with the flow… By Loni Cameron Many words flowed at Sunday’s poetry workshop with Janette Platana. After getting to know each other a bit, Janette shared a little about herself – her work, life … Read more
Paid or Unpaid: Let’s Blog! By: Loni Cameron Want a fun, quick jumpstart to your writing this New Year? How about a guest blog post on the Easy Writer Blog! The WCYR is eager … Read more
