experiment over

non attendance at the last two meetings prompted the end of the experiment.

next meeting Dec. 9th

next meeting on Wednesday December 9th 6:30 pm to 9 pm in the third floor board room of the Midland Public Library

no meeting on November 11, Remembrance Day

next meeting Oct. 14th

starting at 6:30 pm at the Midland Public Library

at the moment no room is reserved for November 11th and likely no meeting will be held in November, meeting in December is on the 9th

Gravenhurst workshop

Quick Brown Fox, September 2, 2009

Workshop:

“How to Build Your Story,” Sat, Oct 17, Gravenhurst. Details here.

Plus: My schedule, reading night at CJ’s Café, a piece by Brian Henry, books by
my students, markets, contests, and four literary agents looking for authors

Literary: “The Damned Devil,” by Joyce Rolf von den Baumen

The Blank Page Writers’ Group presents…
“How to Build Your Story”
~ Plotting novels and writing short stories ~

Saturday, Oct 17
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Community Room in Your Independent Grocers
290 First Street North, Gravenhurst (map)

This workshop will show you how writers plot a novel. You’ll also get the best tips on
writing short stories, where to get them published and how to win contests. Best yet,
you’ll see how to apply the story-building techniques you’ve learned to your own writing.

Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing instructor
for more than 25 years. He teaches at Ryerson University and has led workshops
everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia to Sudbury. He has helped
many of his students get published

Fee: $39.05 plus gst = $41 paid in advance
or $42.86 plus gst = $45 paid at the door

To register, please make out a cheque to Brian Henry and mail it to:

Brian Henry
110 Reiner Road
Toronto, ON M3H 2L6

To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

next meeting

September 9, at 6:30 pm, a new start time

Writers’ Trust of Canada workshop

WTC contacted Bill Molesworth at the Midland Public Library this week.

from some of that communication:

“the Writers’ Trust is applying to the Ontario Arts Council for a grant to fund a series of workshops facilitated by professional writers in small communities across Ontario. The workshops will be held in late spring 2010 in local library branches and will be free to the public. The Writers’ Trust will assume responsibility for securing a local writer to act as facilitator with, of course, feedback from you regarding who you’d like to host at your library. We will also be responsible for promoting the workshop and registering participants.”

The MAWG will support the workshop, not quite sure in what specific ways but it seems like it might be a very good thing for local writers for a workshop of this kind to come to Midland.

next meeting Sept. 9 with new start time

we decided to change the start time to 6:30 pm

last meeting we ran late and made the library staff late in closing up which we want to avoid in future

progress

last week’s meeting showed a few dropouts or possibly just abasences, three new people showed up and two of our group are now off out of town for university, so calculating the pluses and minuses, we are holding at around 10-12, which is large but manageable, so no second meeting time will be needed just yet.

two separate meeting groups for review?

doing a little calculating, it is possible we may have 13 people show up at the next meeting, which might be a bit unwieldy….. it is possible we may have the opportunity to break into two groups for separate monthly meetings……. will need confirmation of room availability and of interest on the part of the group before this is a reality

more interest

had another call about the group and from that and another conversation, we may have 12 people out to the next meeting on Aug. 12th.