Membership in the Sudbury Writers’ Guild is open to all individuals. For more information scroll to bottom of page for a New Membership Information form.
Prospective members are encouraged to attend one of our monthly meetings for free to get a feel for the format and the membership before joining. Annual Membership fee is $30 due in September. A student rate of $15 is available for full-time students with a valid student ID. Our season runs from September until June.
Our membership fee help cover the cost of publishing promotional material, including this website, and may be used to offset the cost of bringing in guest speakers.
WHEN: The Sudbury Writers’ Guild meets the last Thursday of the month from September to May, except December.
The meetings are held from 6:30 pm until approx 8:30 pm.
WHERE:
Monthly Guild meetings are offered both online via Zoom and in person.
If you are interested in attending via Zoom – The meeting details are typically shared via email and in our newsletter. If you are interested in participating – contact us via our Facebook page or via our contact form here.
If you are interested in attending in person we meet at College Boreal on Lasalle Blvd in room M3360 on 3rd Floor. (This can change depending on the needs of the College.) Look for our banner outside the classroom.
Parking at College Boreal is FREE after 4pm. Yes we’ve checked with Security.
The College is accessible by public transit – Kathleen Bus 014 – Schedule is here – https://www.greatersudbury.ca/live/transit/routes-and-schedules/bus-schedules/route-014/
Where to Find Us:
UPDATE:
The Sudbury Writers’ Guild current has both a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page.
As of October 31st, 2022 we are changing our Facebook Group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/SudburyWritersGuild/ to be for active (paid) members only. Currently it’s listed as a CLOSED Group to cut down on spammers but we have allowed anyone to join in the past. The reason for the change is to declutter the posts and to provide a value added feature to paid members to post in private.
For people interested in becoming members or for the general public interested in following our writers and activities of the Guild we recommend following/liking our Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/sudburywritersguild
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ive achieved apoptosis with stage 4 colon cancer 7 tumours on liver 2 on lungs 1 in lymphnode and 1 in colon almost 2 inchs big. i did this without doctors and curing myself. on christmas day i expelled a piece of cancer and went to hospital and it was anylyzed to be cancerous and they are documenting it cause very rare for someone to expell cancer without doctors medicine. They are now going to use me for research on my alternative medicine. I have pics and medical reports to prove it. I dont know how to write a book. Can u help me get this book out and what im doing to survive the impossible
Walter that’s amazing. The Sudbury Writers’ Guild can definitely help you with any questions you might have about writing, but were not a publisher, and our members aren’t typically looking to take on writing other people’s books.
My suggestion would be to document your cancer journey and this development to the best of your ability, Once you have all the details you can always seek out an editor or someone who can coach you how to best organize it.
Best of luck. Let us know if you have any questions.
Andy
Hi –
I am hoping to learn and share about the publishing pillars of Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital promotion and advertising platforms.
Maybe I can attend the next meeting?
Hello – our next meeting is tonight – April 28th, 2022. We already have a guest speaker for this meeting, but please reach out if you would like to discuss speaking at another meeting.
Sudbury Hospital Mural Writing Project
It has been not “temporary mural” there has been many years of neglect and deterioration to this mural site. Please ask Sudbury writers to consider writing an update to what Sudbury now thinks of the largest mural and the state of Panoramic’s commitment to providing renovation of this large site on our main road into the downtown of Sudbury.
Please update the SWG’s – Sudbury Hospital Mural Writing Project
Hi – My partner, Dr. Gerard Collins, and I are professional authors from New Brunswick, and we own and operate Go and Write!, offering writing retreats here in the Maritimes and overseas. We’d like to advertise our retreats to writers, specifically, and wondered if the Sudbury Writers’ Guild has advertising opportunities like a newsletter or regular communication with your members.
I’ve included a description of our upcoming retreat below my note – this is what I sent to the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (I’m a volunteer board member) and this is the type of advertisement they accept in their newsletter. If there are advertising opportunities through the Sudbury Writers’ Guild, please let me know. It would be great to know details like pricing, guidelines around length, frequency, if images are permitted, etc., so I know how to structure communication that best suits you and your membership.
The notice below is about our London and the Cotswolds retreat in March/April, but we’re also hosting more retreats at the Kingsbrae Garden estate here in New Brunswick and then going to Scotland and Ireland in November and December, respectively. We’ll be announcing these additional retreats publicly this weekend and then looking for some way to get the word out for those retreats as well, so if you could let me know, that would be swell.
Thanks so much,
Janie Simpson
http://www.goandwrite.ca
Go and Write! Writing adventures led by Canadian Maritime authors
If this is your year to renew your dedication to the craft of writing, join professional, award-winning authors Dr. Gerard Collins and Janie Simpson on a small group, 11-day writing retreat in London and the Cotswolds, from April 10-20. Note: we have three spots left for this retreat.
With only eight rooms available in total, we have been deliberate in keeping numbers small on this 11-day, springtime retreat, allowing for a relaxed approach and lots of access to the writer in residence.
In London, we’ll stay at the Mad Hatter Hotel near ancient pubs where Dickens, Johnson, Twain, Yeats, Tennyson, and Orwell visited, wrote, and set stories. Then, it’s off to the Cotswolds and the luxurious Abbots Grange manor house, built in 1320 and voted the best B&B in Britain.
This intimate retreat is built for writers of all genres and experience levels, and as writers themselves, Gerard and Janie get it: writers want a thoughtful blend of plenty of alone time for writing as well as literary-focused short tours and group readings and workshops, and that’s how they structure Go and Write! retreats.
Based in New Brunswick, Canada, Janie and Gerard have been hosting writing retreats since 2016. Gerard, originally from Newfoundland, has won and been nominated for many awards and has taught university English literature for over two decades – Gerard will conduct workshops and meet with you one-on-one to discuss your writing. Janie, a graduate of the UNB’s Honours English program, is the chief administrator for Go and Write! and is, herself, an award-winning fiction writer and poet.
Costs start at $4,995 CAD. Visit our website, http://www.goandwrite.ca, for more information about this and our other 2023 retreats, or write to janiegoandwrite@gmail.com.