Services, Courses & Retreats
Writing Services - Support for Canadian Writers - Writing Courses - Writing Retreats
Writing Services
Canadian Writing Services
Most of these services charge a fee. Make sure you are aware of fee structures before contracting their services.
The Editors' Association of Canada.
http://www.editors.ca
Professional Editors
Association of Vancouver Island offers some advice on choosing an editor.
http://peavi.bc.ca
The Script Archeologist provides resources, research and script analysis for writers of all literary forms including film, novels, comic books and video games.
http://www.thescriptarcheologist.com
Toronto Writers' Centre offers emerging and established writers a quiet and professional environment in which to work.
http://www.writerscentre.ca
Wordwrights Canada offers editing services.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/susanio/WWC.html
Write Away! offers writing courses and editing services.
http://www.nexicom.net/~writeaway
Other Writing Services
Research for Writers provides custom research services on any topic to novelists, screenwriters, nonfiction writers, speechwriters, TV producers and writers, editors, and others.
http://www.researchforwriters.com
Support for Canadian Writers
These organizations provide financial support to established writers in need.
The Canadian Writers’ Foundation (Helping Canadian Writers in Need) is a registered charity with only one aim—to help Canada's writers when they fall on hard times.
http://www.canadianwritersfoundation.org
The Woodcock Fund provides support funding to published writers who are having hard times or need to support themselves while finishing a book.
http://www.writerstrust.com/programs_woodcockfund.html
Writing Courses
Check the pricing of these courses before you register to avoid surprises.
Summer Writing Courses - On-line Writing Courses
Summer Writing Courses
Dates for summer courses may vary each year.
A Community of Writers is a summer writing program at Tatamagouche Centre in Nova Scotia.
http://www.tatacentre.ca/programs_summer.html
The Humber School for Writers offers an annual summer program.
http://creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/writers
Sage Hill Writing Experience is a rural summer writing retreat in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
http://www.sagehillwriting.ca
Victoria School of Writing, operated by a non-profit society, offers workshops each summer in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and editing longer works-in-progress by leading writers and editors.
http://www.victoriaschoolofwriting.org
On-line Writing Courses
Booming Ground, Western Canada's pre-eminent online writing studio offers innovative, professional creative writing mentorships in a variety of genres (including fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction and children's writing) for writers of all levels. The non-credit satellite program of the prestigious UBC Creative Writing program, Booming Ground takes pride in matching some of North America’s best writing mentors with students all over the world.
http://www.boomingground.com
The Humber School for Writers offers distance learning programs in creative writing.
http://creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/writers
Paul Lima Offers Creative writing & Freelance writing e-mail correspondence courses.
http://www.paullima.com
Manuscript@SFU is an online manuscript completion program for writers based on a mentor model. It is currently under development and is scheduled to start at Simon Fraser University in September of 2006.
http://www.sfu.ca/wp/manuscript
WritingSchool.com is an Internet-based school with courses on a wide variety of writing genres.
http://www.WritingSchool.com
Quality of Course, Inc. is a correspondence writing school, with interactive instruction on the Internet. Click on the Canadian Flag to get the Canadian site.
http://www.qualityofcourse.com
You may also wish to check our listing of Canadian universities. Many universities offer excellent writing programs.
Spectrum Virtual University Offers a variety of on-line writing courses.
http://www.vu.org/campus.html
Virginia Tech Online Writing Lab
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~owl/owl.html
Other Online Writing Labs
http://www.cyberwriter.com/links/owl.html
Writing Retreats
The Berton House Writers' Retreat.
http://bertonhouse.ca
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