As the new hosts of Canadian pitch party #canlitpit, WritingCommunity.ca needs the help of publishing professionals in Canada to make the next event really shine. Editors, agents, and publishers are invited to take our survey to let us know when is the best time to hold the next event, and to tell us how we can improve the event we […]
Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]
Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]
On June 27, 2021, Jes of WritingCommunity.ca sat down with author Jennifer Harris of Waterloo, ON to discuss her upcoming picture books, She Stitched the Stars (Albert Whitman, 2021) and When Your Were New (Harper Collins, 2023), poetry in Matter and Columba, and her academic publishing. We also covered important topical issues like cultural appropriation and separating the art of […]
#canlitpit, the Twitter pitch party for Canadians, is happening this Thursday, August 12, from 9 am to 9 pm. The event, now hosted by WritingCommunity.ca, was founded by DigiWriting.com in 2016. #canlitpit is a Twitter pitch party just for Canadians. During the #canlitpit event, Canadian writers can pitch completed, polished manuscripts via tweet for agents, editors, and publishers to peruse. […]
Canada has an amazing assortment of magazines, both national and regional. There are niche magazines for almost every topic! If you have expertise in any of them, and have something unique to say, you stand a good chance of getting your work in one of them. We’ve compiled a list of magazines in Canada to find a home for your […]
Past publication history looks great in an author bio, and literary journals are a great way to get your work out there without the typical wait times of traditional book publishing. Poetry, short fiction, essays and the like are constantly and voraciously being consumed by the journals on this list. We’ve compiled a list of literary journals in Canada to […]
It’s HARD to find a literary agent. There’s so many different places to look: Twitter, QueryTracker, Publisher’s Marketplace, ManuscriptWishList, the Writer’s Market books… Where do you start? RIGHT HERE. We’ve aggregated the data from all of the sources above into one place. It may not include every agency out there, but it includes all the ones we could find, so […]
On March 28, WritingCommunity.ca co-founder Jessica Trudel sat down for an interview with Thunder Bay author Marianne Jones, author of Maud and Me (Crossfield Publishing, 2021). With Maud and Me set for release on June 10, 2021, we thought now would be a good time to release the recording. In Maud and Me, Marianne Jones explores the inner isolation of […]
WritingCommunity.ca is now accepting applications for its new author interview program. The interviews will be conducted in February, June, and November each year and will feature authors of books, articles, essays, short stories, and poetry. There is no cost to apply or be interviewed, so it’s a great opportunity to promote yourself and your work as a writer. All published […]
