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Betsy Warland on Panels at Growing Room 2018
Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival returns from March 1-4, 2018 at various venues in Vancouver, BC. Betsy Warland will be at Growing Room on Saturday and Sunday, where she will be...

Making Your Writing Fly: A Self-editing Workshop with Betsy Warland
This summer, Betsy offers "Making Your Writing Fly," a self-editing workshop for prose and poetry, presented by Island Mountain Arts. Effectively self-editing your work before you send it out to an...

Experiments in Creative Non-Fiction with Betsy Warland
Canadian Authors presents "Experimenting with the Potentials of Creative Non-Fiction," a reading and talk by Betsy Warland, essayist, poet, and founder of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser...

Spring Workshop: West Coast Writers Urban Retreat with Betsy Warland
West Coast Writers is pleased to announce our upcoming urban retreat: a day-long intensive with critically acclaimed poet and author, Betsy Warland. Navigating contradictions, the unknown, or the...

Betsy Warland at the Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo
The inaugural Wild Writers Festival, presented by The New Quarterly, was held from Nov 3-5, 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario. Betsy Warland offered a sold out creative non-fiction workshop and was part...

Markowitz Award Open for Submissions & Lambda Literary Announces New Prize
The 2018 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers is now open for submissions. Lambda Literary announced the news on Jan 4: "The Judith A. Markowitz Award honors LGBTQ-identified...
Betsy Warland at Growing Room 2018!
Growing Room is Room magazine’s annual literary festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists, and Betsy Warland is honoured to be included in the stellar lineup! Growing Room: A...

Refugium Longlisted for George Ryga Award
Refugium, an anthology of Poems for the Pacific, edited by Victoria Poet Laureate, Yvonne Blomer, has been longlisted for the 2018 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Published by...
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