Learn The Craft of Writing
Speaker: Diana Cranstoun I’m giving up eating chocolate for a month. Sorry, bad punctuation. I’m giving up. Eating chocolate for a month! Join Diana for a discussion to figure out some school grammar and punctuation we seem to have forgotten about. Oh… and the Oxford comma. What’s that all about? In-Person Option Thursday’s presentation will be live … Read more
Speaker: Allison Gorner Great stories have characters the reader feels connected to. But how, as writers, do we do that? To create an emotional response in the reader, the author must create characters with strong emotions. In this workshop we will be discussing two ways to effectively write emotion in your characters: emotional conflict (or … Read more
ARWA TV Zoom channel, Thursday, September 23, 7-9 PM Speaker – Swati Chavda Don’t let your book end up in a reader’s “did not finish” pile. Use neuroscience-based tips, tricks, and tools to revise and self-edit your manuscript to hook the reader’s attention and keep it engaged throughout the story to have them come back, … Read more
Board Meeting starts at 9 AM. All members are welcome to join the board for the meeting. Zoom link to be emailed to members. Members and invited guests will be sent the Zoom link via email. Meeting begins at 10:30 AM. Speakers: Mahrie Glad, Bret Cousins, Sarah Kades All You Ever Wanted To Know But … Read more
ARWA will be setting up its own Merchant Room to sell your books through at WWC, August 14-16. In order to get your book on the page, you need to supply the following items: A jpg file of each cover of the books you want to sell. A short bio with a jpg file of … Read more
Sunday, March 22, 2020 Due to the Coronavirus, ARWA has suspended all meetings at St. Mark’s Manor. BUT… Welcome to the 21st Century!! Using the meeting app Zoom, ARWA will be continuing their workshop meeting in the virtual world. All members will be emailed a link to join the meeting. We will be looking for … Read more
The New Year means a new round of the writing challenge. There are three different options available: Five Page Program – Member submit 5 pages per week for review by their group members. They meet once a week at the same time on Skype to give verbal feedback and follow-up by sending back the marked, … Read more
Attention ARWA members! If you have an article or book launch you would like included in the Connections Newsletter, the deadline for content to be included in the second issue of fall is coming up on October 1st! Have you launched a book or published a short story? Or did you write a great writing article … Read more
ARWA is delighted to introduce both members who will be participating in this year’s When Words Collide conference in Calgary August 8-10th, 2014 and also other ARWA sponsored panels. Members activities include sitting on panels, offering workshops and reading at the ARWA Social, held in the Yorkshire 1 room at the Carriage House Inn, on … Read more
Are you coming down to When Words Collide? Why not come a bit early and take part in the fantastic workshop ARWA is hosting! Monochrome or Tapestry – Engineering your Stories for Texture and Depth Join ARWA writers Diana Cranstoun, Jessica L Jackson, Sarah Kades and Mahrie G Reid to explore multiple approaches for creating … Read more