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The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 5 - Almeda Glenn Miller
Almeda Glenn Miller, the former owner of Goldrush Books in Rossland, B.C., is the author of Tiger Dreams. She teaches creative writing at Selkirk College in Castlegar. In this program she reads from her manuscript If Anwar Had Lived.
Topics: The rocky road to publishing. Need an agent or not? Linear narrative vs complex, the challenges. Finding writing/publishing community. Being published while living in a small town. Also in this interview: Raincoast Books; Selkirk College, Castlegar campus; Event literary magazine, Douglas College; University of Eastern Washington; B.C. Arts Council Grants.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 4 - Tom Wayman
Tom Wayman's poetry and other writing has been published in literary magazines across the world. He has published eighteen books of poetry and is widely respected by students of writing wherever he teaches. In this program, he reads from his first collection of fiction, Boundary Country.
Topics: Publishing in Canada, the last twenty years (a rant); the differences between writing poetry and fiction; reads from a fictional send-up of the community meeting; working with an editor, point of view, common mistakes in writing. Links for literary journals that take submissions: The Hudson Review, The Ontario Review, Grain Magazine,The Fiddlehead,The Windsor Review, Descant. Also see Nelson & District Arts Council; Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of book news and reviews.
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