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CAA NATIONAL / SF CANADA EVENT – How to Market & Sell Short Fiction
A wealth of courses and books exist to teach you how to write stories. But what happens when you've finished writing? Do you know how to sell what you've written? Based on the popular writer's guide, Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction, this workshop will give you crucial advice on how to sell your short stories to professional markets and to begin a career as a short fiction writer. Find full details and presenter bio…
Find out more »Muskoka Authors Association Meeting – A Debut Fictional Novel Inspired by Actual Events
Bracing for Impact – A Debut Fictional Novel Inspired by Actual Events Former Ontario correctional officer and author JC Kors launches her debut novel, a raw and gripping debut novel. Bracing for Impact, is a powerful story of resilience, survival, and one woman’s fight to prove she belongs in the toughest place imaginable: an all-male maximum-security prison. Drawing from her extensive three-decade career in Canada’s prison system, JC provides readers with a rare insight behind the walls, merging emotional truth with…
Find out more »Accenti Magazine’s Accenti Fest 2025
AccentiFest (the Accenti Magazine International Festival of the Arts) is inspired by the desire to celebrate and give expression to the vitality of the Italian cultural heritage in the world. Building on the success of the inaugural Festival in 2023, this second edition will bring together a diverse range of cultural agents (writers, performers, artists, scholars) and the public at large to exchange ideas, forge new relationships, and delight in the arts.
Find out more »Muskoka Authors Association Meeting – Author Katherine Ashenburg Introduces “Margaret’s New Look”
Free for MAA Members and $20 for Non-Members. Doors open at 6:30 pm ET. Join Muskoka Authors Association (MAA) and their guest author, Katherine Ashenburg. At almost eighty years of age, Ashenburg published her third novel, Margaret’s New Look. Fashion, mystery, and politics combine in this delectable, pacey novel set in a big-city museum where an ambitious curator is launching a controversial exhibition of Christian Dior's "New Look." At work, Margaret is the well-regarded curator of fashion for a big…
Find out more »Muskoka Authors Association Presents Samra Zafar
Free for MAA Members and $20 for Non-Members. Doors open at 6:30 pm ET. On Thursday, July 10, you are invited to be inspired by award-winning, internationally renowned speaker, physician, author and educator, Samra Zafar. Zafar will share her personal journey to publication and offer advice based on her new book, Unconditional, about blazing your own trail and building resilience in your life. Zafar has been recognized among the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, the Top 25 Most…
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CAA NATIONAL / SF CANADA EVENT – The Secret to Creating Compelling Narrative
Give Your Writing Legs: The Secret to Creating Compelling Narrative, with Arlene Marks Every story is a narrative, and narrative moves forward on two legs, just as we do: conflict and suspense. They riff off each other, gripping the reader and keeping them turning pages. This presentation will teach viewers not only how to create conflict and suspense, but also how to use conflict to create suspense, and suspense to spawn further conflict, ultimately imbuing a story with dramatic tension…
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CAA BC CHAPTER EVENT – BC Summer Social
The CA-BC Summer Social is a long-standing tradition. Please note that our reservation is for a maximum of 20 people.
Find out more »Cover to Cover Okanagan Author Signing Event
Coles Penicton in the Cherry Lane Shopping Centre will be hosting 12 to 15 local authors for a book signing event in the main mall walkway.
Find out more »CAA NATIONAL / SF CANADA EVENT – Ways of Understanding Humour
Ways of Understanding Humour with Ira Nayman Join this webinar to hear Ira Nayman make the argument that humour is not, as many people think, a genre of fiction; in fact, it is an approach to writing. Listen in to explore different facets of this approach and discuss the value of humour in our lives, especially in dark personal and/or national times. Torontonian Ira Nayman decided to devote his life to writing humour when he was eight years old, which…
Find out more »Muskoka Authors Association Presents Catherine Bush
Author Catherine Bush Speaking on Novels to Short Stories Free for MAA Members and $20 for Non-Members. Doors open at 6:30 pm ET. Enter by door on the southside driveway. On August 28 Muskoka Authors Association has the pleasure of a return visit from author and associate professor of creative writing, Catherine Bush. After producing five novels, including the widely acclaimed Blaze Island (2020), Catherine Bush has just published Skin, her first collection of stories. She’ll talk about how she transitioned from novelist to short story writer,…
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