Write Away!
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Write Away! offers e-mail tutorials, workshops, manuscript evaluations and mentoring for your writing project. We've been helping writers since 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, shifting to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1990, and in 2000 to Peterborough, Ontario. Our director is Margaret Slavin Dyment, author of Drawing the Spaces. |
| Fabricating this tale out of memory, at first I believe I am in control--but slowly I understand that it is the story deciding where it comes from and how it goes.... Winding its way back into the mysterious dark, the story found what wanted to come forward into the light. |
| - Isabel Huggan, from "S.E.M.A.P.H.O.R.E.," in Belonging, Knopf, 2003 |
| Manuscript Evaluation Service
Revised your manuscript as far as you can go? Before you send it to an editor, why not get an informed, friendly reading? You are the author and we do not do re-writes or promise publication. What we give you is a detailed response from a knowledgeable reader, an honest critique and, where appropriate, specific suggestions.
We can spot problems and suggest remedies. It is also useful to hear what is working well!
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E-Mail Tutorials
Write Away! offers four ten-week courses by e-mail. The introductory courses are: Sources, Shapes. The advanced courses are: Sharing the Words, Shining the Words. |
| Mentoring
Working on a writing project? Need a helping hand? Early drafts or final polish, this mentoring contact is tailored to your writing needs |
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Workshops
Write Away! offers one- or two-day writing workshops for writing groups or schools or colleges. The facilitator is Margaret Slavin Dyment, longtime creative writing teacher and author of the short collection Drawing the Spaces (Orca), three chapbooks of fiction and poetry, and numerous articles in periodicals. |
| Victoria School of Writing
A five-day writing school in beautiful Victoria each July. Work on your writing in intensive workshops with established writers. Fiction, poetry and a variety of other genres. Begun as a Write Away! program, the Victoria School of Writing is now a stand-alone organization. See their website for information about this year's school. |
A Non-Profit Society |
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