Opportunities

Great Blue Heron Workshop

The deadline for applications is coming up soon! Applications should be postmarked by May 28th. The workshop will take place at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS from July 3-7, 2007. Faculty members include Sheldon Currie (Fiction & Playwriting), Charles Gaines (Screenwriting), Jeanette Lynes (Poetry), Alistair MacLeod (Fiction), and Lisa Moore (Fiction). For more information contact gbheron@stfx.ca or phone (902) 867 4533. See www.stfx.ca/workshops/gbheron for details.

27th Atlantic Film Festival Seeks Feature Film Outlines for the Festival’s Inspired Script program. Deadline for outlines: June 8, 2007. Full details can be found at the AFF website: www.atlanticfilm.com under ‘Filmmakers & Delegates.’

CANSCAIP is hosting two upcoming conferences. The Prairie Horizons conference in Lumsden, Saskatchewan, September 14-16th (http://www.canscaip.org/ph.html) and the Packaging Your Imagination conference in Toronto, November 3rd (http://www.canscaip.org/pyi.html). Visit the websites for more information. SCBWI, the society of children’s book writers and illustrators, is also having a conference on June 23 in Barrie, Ontario. For more information, please visit: http://www.scbwicanada.org/east