In the Shadow of the Wall: Marcello Di Cintio

AWCS 2012 Writer in Residence, Marcello Di Cintio, talks about walls. The theme for his upcoming book, In the Shadow of the Wall, to be published later this year.

AWCS Presents: Gail Bowen

Photo by Edward Willet

AWCS PRESENTS: GAIL BOWEN, LIVE AT OWL'S NEST BOOKS
Sunday, June 3, 2012 | 7pm | Owl's Nest Books
FREE EVENT

For one night only, Canadian mystery writer, Gail Bowen will be live at Owl’s Nest Books reading from her newest book, Kaleidoscope, released April 2012.

Bring friends and join AWCS and Owl’s Nest Books in welcoming one of Canada’s best-selling mystery writers.

The evening will be followed by a Q & A, wine and refreshments.

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How to Get Your Manuscript Out of the Desk Drawer and Onto the Best Seller List
Instructor: Gail Bowen
June 4 | 10-4:30pm
Registration Fee: $125
Venue: Memorial Park Library, 1221, 2nd St. SW, Calgary

This workshop will teach you how to use the elements of fiction most effectively. We will deal with the following: defining your theme so that it drives your work, creating truly dimensional protagonists and antagonists, using secondary characters effectively, making setting an integral part of your story, establishing plot points and developing sub-plots to support your principal plot line. The workshop will also discuss solutions to challenges that you, as emerging writers, are facing. Most importantly, we'll have fun.

Register Online


Special thanks to Mystery Writers Ink for helping make these events possible.

Return Of The Blog

Greetings fellow writers,

After a period of inactivity, the AWCS blog is back and better than ever, powered by buckets of clean-burning unicorn blood.

Here, we'll talk about literary events, the publishing industry, our successes, our less-than-successes, and of course, the challenges, joys, politics and wackadoo of writing itself.

We'd like to build a supportive community made up of the only people who truly understand us: other writers. So check in regularly for news, well articulated explorations and strident rantings on a variety of topics.

And here's the super cool part. If you have something to say, we want to hear it. Be bold. Send us stories, poems and book reviews. We also want information, opinions, confessions, drabbles and dweebles (you decide what those things are).

If you have words, and we know you do, send 'em to awcswriterscorner@gmail.com

More fun stuff coming soon. Until then, give your muse a pat and a cookie. It can't hurt.

-AWCS Blog Monkey

A Little News

A nice article about AWCS appeared on Suite 101 today.
Check it out.

Also if you haven't already, check out the Freshwater Pearls Online Supplement website that goes along with the 30th anniversary celebrations and the launch of the Freshwater Pearls anthology. The cover has been selected and the online submissions are starting to appear along with some snippets of what is between the pages of the print copy. A must read for sure.