ONLINE WORKSHOPS
OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL is pleased to announce Plodding or Plotting, an online workshop/class, with instructor Gail Gaymer Martin from Jan. 4 through 22, 2011. Registration deadline is Jan. 3, 2011. Cost for Outreach International members is $20 and $25 for non-members. For more information, visit http://www.oirw.net/campus/currentcourselist.htm.
THE BLACK DIAMOND CHAPTER of RWA presents their online workshop, Fat-Free Writing or How to Eliminate Wordiness in the Editing Stage with the Grammar Divas, aka Annie Oortman and Darlene Buchholz from Jan. 3-16, 2011. Cost is $15 for BDRWA members and $20 for non-members. For more info, visit www.bdrwa.com and click on online classes.
RWA’s MYSTERY/SUSPENSE CHAPTER is pleased to announce their January College of Felony and Intrigue Killer Instinct (COFFIN) online workshop, Using Grammar to Develop and/or Strengthen Your Distinctive Writing Style with the Grammar Divas, aka Annie Oortman and Darlene Buchholz. Payment must be received by Dec. 27. Cost is $15 for KOD members and $30 for non-members. For more information, visit http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org.
RWA’s MYSTERY/SUSPENSE CHAPTER is pleased to announce their January College of Felony and Intrigue Killer Instinct (COFFIN) online workshop, World-Building In Uniform: Using the US Navy as a Template for your Fictional Military with instructors Linnea Sinclair and Michael Helfstein, USNR (ret). Payment must be received by Dec. 27. Cost is $15 for KOD members and $30 for non-members. For more information, visit http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org
THE PASSIONITE INK Chapter of RWA presents an online workshop, Beginnings with instructor Christine Amsden from Jan. 3 – 31, 2011. Cost is $15 for Passionate Ink members and $20 for non-members. For more information contact the coordinator at workshops.
NEORWA’S January online workshop, Archetypes vs. Stereotypes with instructors Sue Viders and Becky Martinez from Jan. 3-14, 2011. Cost is $15 for NEORWA members and $20 for non-members. For more information, visit www.neorwa.com.
DUNES & DREAMS Chapter of RWA presents This is the Year You Write that Book! with instructor Susan Meier from Jan. 3-29, 2011. Registration deadline is Jan. 1. Cost is $10 for Dunes & Dreams members and $25 for non-members. Please click the email link given to contact the coordinators at workshops.ddrwa for more information.
CONTESTS
The GREATER DETROIT RWA’s 2011 Between the Sheets contest deadline is Feb. 14, 2011. Unpublished writers should send in their ten page love scene. Entry fee is $21 for GDRWA members and $25 for non-members. The top prize is $100. For more information, visit www.gdrwa.org/contests.html.
CONFERENCES
The GREATER VANCOUVER Chapter of RWA presents Write On, Vancouver 2011, an intensive conference for fiction and screen writers from May 13-15, 2011 in Vancouver, BC. Early bird registration opens January 1 for RWA members only. Fees for January only are $125. On February 1, registration opens to the public and rates go up. For more information, visit http://writeonvancouver.wordpress.com.
