Join SWC to help banish the blank page!A $20 annual membership creates writing inspiration, gives access to writing time, offers the opportunity to be published in our annual anthology and helps create a strong writing community in the Sooke region.
See what we’re planning – visit us at our next meeting.
Using some upcoming contests to incite writing, members will be gathering for several feedback sessions.
Targets:
FBCW 2018 Flash Prose Contest – Theme: “How I Choose to Hibernate.”
The word length is anything below 650 words, and fiction and non-fiction are allowed.
Deadline October 1, 2018
2019 CBC Short Story Prize
stories up to 2500 words in length
Deadline October 31, 2018
SWC Anthology
There’s only 6 months to the next anthology deadline! For those of you counting it will be number 6.
Upcoming feedback sessions available for members: Sept 19, 26 and Oct 10
Another target for poets:
Back by popular demand, The Coast Collective is looking for POEMS for their 2019 Poetry and Artwork Exhibition:
For this show, we are inviting poets to send in their poems, which will be interpreted by artists in their 2D or 3D medium of choice. The artist will create artwork inspired by their poem of choice, and the poem and artwork will be displayed in the gallery together. This show will be held during National Poetry Month 2019.
Show Runs: April 3-14, 2019
Deadline to Submit Poems: November 28, 2018
Poets Notified of Interpreted Works: March 15, 2019
Reminder:
Memoir Workshop & Reading with Yvonne Blomer – Sat., Sept 29
1-4pm at Edward Milne Community School, Sooke
Space is limited – register here
!Calling all playwrights and screenwriters in Sooke!
Interested in writing a play or screenplay? Sheila is starting up a sub-group!
Mark October 4 on your calendar
For more information contact the collective.
Reminders