WCYR’s 2026 Past, Present, and Future Writing Contest Anthology
Submit your reflections on time: what carries forward from the past, what we are living in the present, or what future might lie ahead. Entry submission opens 20 September 2026. […]
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“Video Game Writing Portfolio” with Kim Sparks
Virtual Event OnlineThis eight-week workshop will help you develop your video game writing portfolio. You will write elements for your portfolio, including: a brief scene in script format, character bio, lore entry, object description, and barks/NPC dialogue. At the end of the course, you will have a one-on-one meeting with Kim to discuss your portfolio and next […]
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Creative Writing Sessions: Playing with Words with Allison Hannah
Aurora Public Library 15145 Yonge St, Aurora, Ontario, CanadaThis is your opportunity to get your fingers moving and ideas flowing. We’ll write in a group using 7-minute writing games: themed lists, music title prompts, passing a prompt to another participant, and more. You’ll have the opportunity to share a piece of writing with the group to receive some positive feedback. This session will […]
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Read like a Writer with Elise Abram
Virtual Event OnlineThis workshop explores how writers can become stronger storytellers by learning to read analytically. Rather than reading only for pleasure or content, participants will learn how to “read like a writer” by examining the techniques, structural choices, and stylistic decisions authors use to create engaging fiction. By approaching books analytically, writers can turn every novel, […]
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The Business of Bookselling: Managing Records, Taxes, and Publishing Costs
Virtual Event OnlineOnce your book is published, you are running a small business. This workshop explores the practical, financial, and administrative responsibilities involved in publishing and selling books, helping authors understand the often-overlooked aspects and hidden costs of the business. This session examines: hiring freelancers tool subscriptions obtaining ISBNs publishing/distribution royalties bookkeeping: sales and expense recording income […]
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What’s your Brand?
Virtual Event OnlineWhile raising the number of social media followers isn’t a magic formula for selling books or gaining traction with agents and publishers, it is a trust signal to the people buying your books that you are a ‘in real life’ person whom they can relate to. One of the questions I get asked the most […]
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Going In Deep: Writing From a First- and Third-Person Limited Perspective
Virtual Event OnlineLearn the tricks that deepen your point-of-view narrator so that readers feel like they are right in the action and not watching from the sidelines. In this workshop, we discuss the different types of POV and the pitfalls of each and explore how you can deepen your reader’s experience through description, showing instead of telling, […]
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Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story
Taylor’s Funeral Home 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaMost writing craft courses and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on. And on and on and on. Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer’s toolbox. The problem with that […]
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Put Your Readers in the Scene: What It Means to Show and Not Tell
Virtual Event OnlineWhat is meant by “showing” versus “telling” and how can you tell the difference? Is it ever okay to “tell?” Is there such a thing as showing too much? Explore […]
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Consignment and Book Selling Tips for Authors
Virtual Event OnlineWe start with most writers’ goal of getting their book onto Indigo bookshelves and discuss why this is a bad goal to have and why an author should pursue it, regardless. I put things “in perspective” with a discussion about my sales numbers using different channels. The attendees will then be told how and when […]