Webinars
The Writers' Union of Canada presents webinars on a range of craft and business topics for writers. Check out what's coming up next, and scroll down to see past webinars.
The Spring/Summer 2021 webinar series is presented with support from the Access Copyright Foundation.
All TWUC webinars are closed captioned. Learn more about accessibility at the Union.
> Upcoming Webinars
Ethical Approaches to Memoir Registration: Free, open to TWUC members only > This webinar is exclusively for TWUC members. Click here to access registration (member login required). What is “your story” and how can you best tell it? These are questions all memoir writers face, particularly when your story overlaps with other people’s lives. Join Jenny Heijun Wills, award-winning author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related, for a discussion about her own process exploring her story through different genres – from scholarly research to poems to fiction – before landing on memoir. Through presentation and in discussion with award-winning nonfiction writer Kamal Al-Solaylee, Jenny will cover the ways that research, facts, and ethics informed her approach. This webinar runs 60 minutes and includes a Q&A period. TWUC members who are unable to attend will have access to a recording of the webinar for a limited time. |
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Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada). It won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction prize and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Best First Book Prize. It was a 2019 Globe & Mail Best Book, a 2019 CBC Best in Canadian Nonfiction, and was named one of the 10 best Manitoban-authored books of the last decade by the Winnipeg Free Press. She is also co-editor of Adoption & Multiculturalism: Europe, The Americas, and the Pacific (University of Michigan Press, 2020). She is Chancellor’s Research Chair at the University of Winnipeg where she also is associate professor of English. She is writing two novels. |
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Kamal Al-Solaylee, a professor of journalism at Ryerson University, is the author of the national bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC’s Canada Reads, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction. His latest book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), was hailed as "brilliant" by The Walrus magazine and "essential reading" by The Globe and Mail. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards for Nonfiction and the Trillium Book Award, and won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. He was previously a theatre critic at The Globe and Mail and has written reviews and features on arts and politics for all major Canadian publications, including Toronto Star, National Post, The Walrus, Toronto Life, Quill & Quire, and Literary Review of Canada. |
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> Past Webinars
- Spoken Word on the Page with Dwayne Morgan, hosted by Cobra Collins (April 13, 2021 - public webinar)
> Exclusive for Members: Watch a recording of this webinar on demand until May 13, 2021. Click here to access link to recording (member login required).
- The Trade Book Contract: A Guided Tour with Warren Sheffer, hosted by Nadia L. Hohn (March 23, 2021 – member exclusive)
> Exclusive for Members: Watch a recording of this webinar on demand until April 23, 2021. Click here to access link to recording (member login required).
- "When Am I Done?" with Lauren Carter, hosted by Sharon Bala (March 9, 2021 – public webinar)
- Strategies for Writing Discipline with Natasha Deen, hosted by Anita Daher (February 23, 2021 – member exclusive)
- Picturing the Words with Ruth Ohi, hosted by Anne Shone (February 9, 2021 – public webinar)
- Success in Indie Publishing: A Case Study with Ann Shortell, hosted by Yolanda T. Marshall (January 26, 2021 – member exclusive)
- Get That Grant! with Joanne Gerber and Andrew Steinmetz, hosted by Paul Seesequasis (January 12, 2021 – public webinar)
- The Mentorship Agreement with Danny Ramadan, hosted by Joy Henderson (November 24, 2020 – member exclusive)
- Ins and Outs of Literary Agents with Léonicka Valcius, hosted by Zalika Reid-Benta (November 12, 2020 – public webinar)
- Digital Promotions 2.0: Video Engagement with Trevor Carolan and Rod McLean, hosted by Keeley Walter (October 27, 2020 – member exclusive)
- The World of Book Marketing & Promotions with Lindsay Wong, hosted by John Degen (October 13, 2020 – public webinar)
- What is the Pandemic Doing to the Book Trade? with Kate Edwards, hosted by John Degen (September 22, 2020 – member exclusive)
- What You Need to Know About Your First Book Publication with Waubgeshig Rice, hosted by Nisha Patel (September 15, 2020 – public webinar)
- Thinking About Your Archives? with LAC Literary Archivist Sarah Hillier, hosted by Kevin Chong (August 11, 2020 – member exclusive)
- 7 Quick Emotions-Based Strategies to Help Your Writing with Farzana Doctor, hosted by Tanya Boteju (July 25, 2020 – public webinar)
> Bonus Material: Check out the article "Feeling Too Blah to Write?" by Farzana Doctor, written to accompany this webinar
- Taxes for Writers with Artbooks' Tova Epp, hosted by Julia Lin (July 8, 2020 – member exclusive)
- Self-Care for Writers with Chelene Knight, hosted by Jen Sookfong Lee (June 27, 2020 – public webinar)
- Go Digital or Go Home: Author Promotion in the Social Media Era with Marty Chan, hosted by Anita Daher (June 9, 2020 – member exclusive)
- Getting Paid Through PLR with John Degen and PLR Program Manager Peter Schneider (May 26, 2020 – public webinar)
- How to Be Your Own Editor with Farzana Doctor, hosted by John Degen (May 9, 2020 – public webinar)
