PAPER CHASE: Local fiction editor offers writers’ workshop

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PROSPECTIVE authors can get some tips from editor Maurice Mierau , fiction editor at Winnipeg-based Great Plains Publications imprint Enfield & Wizenty, as part of the event called Am I Ready to Publish a Book?

A Seminar for Unpublished Writers in Any Genre.

The workshop takes place Feb. 5 and is presented by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild.

Costs are $10 for MWG members, $20 for non-members; the maximum of 12 participants should bring a project outline and CV.

For complete registration information visit mbwriter.mb.ca.

Mierau’s last book, Fear Not, won the 2009 ReLit Award for poetry.

 

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A Valentine of $25,000 will be awarded to one of five nominees for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. The winner will be announced Feb. 14.

The nominees are: Stevie Cameron for On

the Farm ; Charles Foran for Mordecai : The Life & Times ; Ross King for Defiant Spirits ;

George Sipos for The Geography of Arrival ;

and Merrily Weisbord for The Love Queen of Malabar.

The prize, named for the late author and journalist Charles Taylor, had its inaugural year in 2000; it became an annual award in 2004.

Previous winners include former Winnipegger Carol Shields in 2002, for Jane Austen.

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Toronto-based academic publisher Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. has sold imprints Women’s Press, Sumach Press, and Kellom Books to Three O’Clock Press Inc.

Founded last spring, TOPI will publish two new titles per season under the imprints.

TOPI publisher Sarah Hope Wayne told

Quill & Quire , Canada’s book trade magazine, that the new company will help maintain the feminist legacy of Women’s Press and Sumach.

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Writers looking to conquer the stage fright of public readings can sign up for Performing Your Work, presented by Aqua Books’ Emerging writer-in-residence for January, David Jon Fuller , on Jan 29.

The cost is $30; capacity is limited to 12 participants, who are to read their own work out loud.

Winnipegger Fuller has been in several plays at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. A published fiction writer, he’s also edited Manitoba’s Icelandic newspaper, Lögbgerg-Heimskringla , and is currently a copy editor at the Winnipeg Free Press .

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The Winnipeg version of the national Freedom to Read Marathon is slated for the Millennium Library on Feb. 25, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The date had been wrong on the event’s website but has since been corrected.

 

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