Freelancer Boot Camp ‘09
Location: Marianopolis College, 4873 Westmount Avenue, Room D-105
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time: 1 to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free for members, $15 for non-members, payable at the door by cash or cheque
(Please RSVP pwacquebec@gmail.com if you plan to attend!)
Our annual half-day workshop presents a series of speakers discussing topics that are important to freelancers. [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 30, 2009
PWAC QC workshop: Freelancer Boot Camp ‘09
March 25, 2009
Reminder: PWAC workshop this Saturday
Spaces are filling up fast, but there’s still time to RSVP (that goes for PWAC members too!) if you plan to attend this weekend’s excellent afternoon workshop. Details below:
THE PROFESSIONAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, QUEBEC CHAPTER, PRESENTS:
Marketing Yourself as a Freelance Writer, a workshop by Helena Katz
Location: Marianopolis College, 4873 Westmount Avenue, Room D-105
Date: Saturday, [...]
March 24, 2009
AMWA workshop: ABCs of financial planning
The Montreal chapter of the American Medical Writers Association cordially invites you to:
The ABCs of financial planning
Wednesday April 7, 2009, 7 pm (location to be determined)
WDB+A an independent financial advisor in Toronto and Montreal with small business experience will be presenting at this AMWA event.
As specialists in guiding self-employed people through the maze of [...]
March 18, 2009
STC-Montreal “white paper” seminar
The Society for Technical Communication presents:
How to Boost Your Career by Writing Effective White Papers
White papers drive literally billions of dollars worth of B2B sales every year, and technical writers are ideally suited to write them. In today’s economic downturn, anyone who knows how to write white papers is positioned for better success. Technical writers [...]
March 17, 2009
Editors’ Association of Canada style seminar
Join Frances Peck’s “Clear and Concise: Guidelines for Style” presentation at the next Editors’ Association of Canada seminar!
Initially introduced in Vancouver as a Simon Fraser University Summer Publishing Workshop, editor and instructor Frances Peck brings “Clear and Concise: Guidelines for Style” to Montreal on May 13, 2009. Season your skills with this full-day, hands-on, interactive [...]
March 13, 2009
2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition Open for Entries
The 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition is now open for entry to all Commonwealth citizens. Entry is free. First Prize is 2,000 British Pounds and Regional Prizes are 500 British Pounds each. The closing date is 11 May 2009. Full information on how to enter can be found here.
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition is an [...]
March 13, 2009
SUNY online courses
Grant writing, web design, marketing… there are lots of ways that a freelancer can diversify, and with the current rough business climate, there’s no better time to invest in yourself than the present.
If you’re interested in professional development, you might want to check out the many online courses offered by State University New York – [...]
March 12, 2009
Carte Blanche call for submissions
Carte Blanche is looking for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for its spring issue. So send us your best scribbles and scrawls, be they sonnets, free verse, short stories, memoirs, personal essays, book reviews, literary journalism, or musings on the writing process—as long as it’s well written (and within our 3500 word limit) we’ll consider it.
We [...]
March 12, 2009
2009 PWAC National Conference & AGM: Schedule, Registration and Accommodation Information Now Available
PWAC National Office is pleased to inform PWAC members that information for the 2009 PWAC National Conference & AGM is now available online and in print. For the first time, PWAC is partnering with a number of other industry organizations for MagNet, the premier perioidical conference from magazines Canada. For the first time in PWAC [...]
March 9, 2009
Stephen Lewis Foundation call for submissions
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Grandmothers’ Necklace
DEADLINE: Midnight, May 15th
Are you a grandmother? Have you had/do you have, a grandmother? This, then, is for you.
What is it? An anthology of poetry and prose — gems written by and about grandmothers (hence, the plural title) including some from those in the sub-Saharan African countries. This title stems from [...]
