Join us on Thursday January 27th, 2022 via Zoom for our monthly Sudbury Writers’ Guild Meeting. Please note we will not be offering an in person option this month due to ongoing pandemic restrictions.
The Zoom room will open at 6pm and the meeting gets underway at 6:30 PM. If you need a link to the meeting please message us here or on our Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/sudburywritersguild
In addition to our usual round of catching up on what everyone’s been working on and other Guild activities we have a special guest speaker. Jack Illingworth of Ontario Arts Council joining us at 7:30. He will speak to us about the grants available to Ontario writers. Please bring your questions!***
Jack Illingworth’s Bio: Jack Illingworth has been OAC’s literature officer since September 2013. Most recently, Illingworth was Executive Director of the Literary Press Group of Canada. Previously, he worked for the Association of Canadian Publishers, where he led the initial planning and visioning work for 49th Shelf and eBOUND Canada, and for the Porcupine’s Quill, a literary press based in Wellington County. His writing and criticism has appeared in a range of magazines and journals. Illingworth has served as a Director and Vice Chair for the Book and Periodical Council, the umbrella organization for writing and publishing in Canada, and as a Director of the Doug Wright Awards for excellence in Canadian cartooning and comic arts. He also has done advisory work for a variety of organizations, including the Canada Council for the Arts and the Cultural Human Resources Council.
