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Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Accepting Applications for 2020
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2020. VMI is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential. Our newest mentor is the author of fiction, essays and poetry Susan Olding.
Photos: VMI Celebrates 2019 Grads
Thanks to everyone who came out to VMI’s 2019 alumni reading last Sunday afternoon at Havana Cafe Theatre in East Vancouver.
This diverse group of fiction and non-fiction writers kept the audience rapt in their tales of growing up in South Africa, of the Toronto art scene, of experiencing the Paris Attacks, of being raised in a Hindu cult, of growing up in an Italian immigrant family, as well as submerging us in tales of various realms of speculative fiction.
Becky Livingston Publishes Memoir: The Suitcase and the Jar
Becky Livingston, 2015 VMI alumna, will publish her memoir, The Suitcase and the Jar: Travels with a Daughter’s Ashes, on Sept 14, 2018.
For twenty-six months, Livingston travelled to Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, India, England, Ireland and North America, coast to coast, with her daughter’s ashes.
VMI alumna Jan Redford on Memoir, Marriage, Motherhood, and Mountains
Jan Redford, VMI alumna and author of the memoir, End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood (Random House Canada, 2018) will be in conversation with Hal Wake, former director of the Vancouver Writers Festival and Angie Abdou, author of Home Ice (ECW Press, 2018) at 7 p.m.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Accepting Applications
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2019. VMI is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential.
VMI mentorship begins with an in-person meeting to develop a rapport, discuss your manuscript, and confirm your goals.
VMI application deadline extended by 3 days
The deadline for the 2018 Vancouver Manuscript Intensive has been extended to December 1, 2017!
Get to know your mentors and find out more about working with them one-on-one to develop your manuscript and prepare it for publication.
VMI Alumna Barbara Black Wins Writers’ Union Prose Competition
Barbara Black, 2017 Vancouver Manuscript Intensive alumna, has won The Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition. Black received a $2,500 cash prize for her story, “His Invertebrate Existence.”
Based out of Victoria, B.C., Black’s work has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2017 Open Season Awards and her writing has appeared in venues such as CV2 and FreeFall.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Accepting Applications
The Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is accepting applications for 2018. VMI is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential.
VMI mentorship begins with an in-person meeting to develop a rapport, discuss your manuscript, and confirm your goals.
VMI Mentor on Top 10 List of Most Borrowed Books
Novelist, screenwriter, director, and VMI mentor, Karen X. Tulchinsky, made the list of the Top 10 Most Borrowed Canadian Books from the Vancouver Public Library’s collection.
The list was revealed by the Vancouver Public Library to celebrate Canadian literary contributions on Canada Day.
Photos: VMI Celebrates 2017 Grads
Congratulations to this year’s VMI grads, who celebrated the completion and development of their manuscripts at the Havana Café on June 4, 2017.
Thirteen writers read from their prose, poetry, creative non-fiction, and cross-genre manuscripts, including two who came all the way from Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Glowing Testimonials For Unique Writing Program. Read & Apply–Nov. 21
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive is an in-depth one-to-one mentorship program that pairs you with a professional author to develop your manuscript to its fullest potential. The next six-month session begins in January 2017, and the deadline for application is November 21, 2016–this coming Monday.