Membership in the Sudbury Writers’ Guild is open to all individuals.
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 $40 due in September. A student rate of $20 is available for full-time students with a valid student ID. Dues can be paid by cheque or cash in person or via etransfer to sudburywritersguild1992@gmail.com. Our season runs from September until June.
Our membership fees allow us to pay guest speakers for their time, host this website, pay for promotional materials, reserve meeting space and pay for liability insurance. Annually in May our Treasurer reports to the membership our financial statement outlining our expenses and income for the year.
WHEN: The Sudbury Writers’ Guild meets the last Thursday of the month from September to May. An informal get together is usually planned in June.
The meetings are held from 6:30 pm until approx 8:30 pm. We open the room at 6:00 with an informal 30 minute window for people to socialize and arrive at the meeting. The meeting gets under way at 6:30.
WHERE:
Monthly Guild meetings are offered both online via Zoom and in person at College Boreal.
Please email sudburywriters@gmail.com to get the Zoom link or confirm the room number.
Parking at College Boreal is FREE after 4pm. Yes we’ve checked with Security.
Where to Find Us:
Please visit our Facebook page and Instagram for updates on future projects and find out what our members are up to!
https://www.facebook.com/sudburywritersguild
https://www.instagram.com/sudburywritersguild1992
If you have any other questions, please email us at sudburywriters@gmail.com or contact us through social media.
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.
Greetings,
I recently submitted a poem to the Super Stack Project entitled “Odds Stacked Against Us”. It was written and edited on an iPad on the Notes App and somehow I managed to lose my copy.🙄
Would you kindly send me a copy back?
Thank you.
Kind Regards,
Andy Rickaby
Good morning,
I am wondering if these groupe meeting are also offered in French. I am just starting to write my biography and don’t know much about writing and want to get some guidance. Will the groupe benefits me for guidance and support even if it’s in English?
Caroline – Our meetings are in English although we have several Francophones in the group. You’re welcome to attend a few meetings without joining to decide if its a good fit for you. One of our members is also giving a workshop on writing Memoirs through the The Parkside Centre (formerly the Older Adult Centre). I don’t have the link to the centre but I can put you in touch with her if you would like. – Andy