Entries from August 2007

August 28, 2007

QWF Travel Writing Workshop

The Quebec Writers Federation is accepting registrations for its upcoming travel writing workshop. The cost is $75 and space is limited to 11 participants. Call (514) 933-0878 or email admin@qwf.org for more information or to sign up. The workshop details are below.
MARKETING AND THE ART OF THE PITCH or PROFESSIONAL SECRETS OF A TRAVEL [...]

August 22, 2007

PWAC Quebec Fall Events

Our schedule of events for September, October and November is now up online. Members can view all the details (including dates and locations) in the members only section of this site. Email us if you need the password. Members of the public are welcome to view the list on our events page, as we do [...]

August 16, 2007

NY Times email newsletter wants it for free

The New York Observer published an interesting item today about how one New York Times editor is trying to get contributors to work for free:
Back in April, the New York Times’ glossy sports magazine Play, which appears as a Sunday insert four times a year, rolled out a weekly e-mail newsletter…
Play managing editor Bill Brink told [...]

August 16, 2007

Free reading at the Atwater Library

The Atwater Library’s Author Reading Series is in full swing. Below is information about  an upcoming event.
LAWRENCE HILL
Author of The Book of Negroes

WHERE: Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Avenue (at Tupper) – Métro Atwater
WHEN: Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 7:00 pm
FREE ADMISSION – EVERYONE WELCOME

REFRESHMENTS:  Coffee will be served.
LAWRENCE HILL will read from his new work [...]

August 15, 2007

PWAC member book reading

PWAC member Sid Tafler of Victoria (and formerly of Montreal) will be in Montreal on September 4 for a reading and discussion of his book, Us and Them: A memoir of tribes and tribulations. Come out and support one of our own! All the details are below.
When: September 4, at 2 p.m.
Where: Eleanor London [...]