Tips for Reading Your Work Aloud: Reading your work is, to many writers, like water is to cats — sometimes necessary but not always pleasant. Here are a few tips, compiled by NOWW’s own Mike Bryan, to help give you the confidence and skill you need to read effectively. (Hint: #1 can also get you to Carnegie Hall.)
Literary Thunder Bay blog: http://literarythunderbay.blogspot.com/
Sleeping Giant Writers Festival: http://www.sleepinggiantwriters.com/
Thunder Bay Public Library: http://www.tbpl.ca/
Places for Writers: A resource for Canadian writers that lists calls for submissions, contests, job opportunities, and more. http://www.placesforwriters.com/
Markham Village Writers: A list of resources compiled and moderated by the members of Markham Village Writers, a writing group in Markham, Ontario. Both the Guest Writers and Resources sections welcome submissions from any writers.
http://markhamvillagewriters.com/resources-contests-markets
Canadian Authors Association Niagara Branch: http://www.canauthorsniagara.org/Resources/index.html
Ontario Arts Council (Home Page): http://www.arts.on.ca/page11.aspx
Northern Arts Program: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page1528.aspx
Writers’ Reserve Program: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page119.aspx
Writers’ Works in Progress Program: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page118.aspx
Alphabetical List of Granting Programs: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page27.aspx
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Canadian Authors Association – Niagara Branch
Poetry Anthology Contest: Deadline May 31
www.canadianauthorsniagara.org
Room Magazine’s 2010 Writing Contest
Room 2010 contest ad
http://www.roommagazine.com/index.html
Event magazine’s Annual Non-Fiction Contest – deadline April 15 http://event.douglas.bc.ca
subTerrain’s Annual Lush Triumphant Literary Awards Competition – deadline May 15
http://subterrain.ca/literature/46
The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University: First Book Competition – deadline May 31
http://www.thewritersstudio.ca/