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• Sunday Webinar: Sensory Writing for the Holidays: A journey into memory and nostalgia with Amy Kelly

  • When
    7 Dec 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Sensory Writing for the Holidays: A journey into memory and nostalgia 

  with Amy Kelly

  Member Price: $18

  Non-Member Price is $28

  **This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 45 days.
  

  Workshop/Event Description

  Sparkling lights, cookies warm from the oven, and the familiar melody of a favourite seasonal song. Join Amy Kelly for a special December webinar that explores the sensory power of the holiday season and how to harness it in our writing. 

  Expected Takeaways

  In this webinar, participants will learn to...

  • Evoke universal emotions through specific sensory details
    
  • Use the senses, memory, and nostalgia to connect with readers
    
  • Keep a sensory journal as a part of their writing practice 
    
  • Immerse their readers in the holiday spirit

  
  

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  Intended audience:

  Writers of every skill level

  Bio:

  Amy Kelly is a former midwife and current therapist specializing in maternal mental health. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in As The Snow Drifts: A Winter Anthology, Recipes For Romance: A Valentine's Anthology, 805 lit+ art, Scribbled, Dear Human, emerge25, and Belladonna's Garden. Her non-fiction appears in The Yummy Mummy Club and her poetry in Tiger Leaping Review. Her short story, Another Fish in the Sea, with Nicole Frail Books, was a #1 New Release for its genre on Kindle.  Amy has attended The Yale Writer's Workshop, The SFU Writer's Studio, and was selected for the McLoughlin Gardens Artist in Residency Program in 2024/2025.
  When not writing or working, Amy is busy tending to animals on her hobby farm, enjoying her two wonderful neurodivergent teens, or making pottery. Her last great adventure was hiking Everest Base Camp at age 40. She hopes publishing her books will be her next.

  Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm

  
  

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• December Writers' Social

  • When
    9 Dec 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for a Writers' Social on Tuesday, December 9 from 7:00 - 8:15 PM Pacific by registering here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event.

  
  

  Many of us strive for a connection with our fellow writers. This members-only monthly event is designed to bring us together for casual chats with breakout rooms. Join us to talk craft, career, and connection for about 75 minutes over Zoom. Meet new people and get the most out of being a part of a provincial organization! Below are the proposed discussion groups for this month's meeting (subject to change). Please email meaghan@bcwriters.ca if you would like to suggest a discussion topic for an upcoming meeting. See you there!

  
  

  Discussion Groups:

  • All about poetry 
  • Editing and revision
  • Children's picture books
  • What are you reading? Current reads, favourite books, and how they've impacted you and your writing
  • CNF/memoir writers connect
  • Travel writing
  • Connecting writers with chronic illnesses
  • Romance writers
  • General writing discussion

  
  

  Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm, Event Starts at 7:00 PM Pacific

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• Evening Webinar: Concept, Contributors, and Contracts: Create and Sell a Standout Anthology with JJ Lee

  • When
    15 Dec 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Concept, Contributors, and Contracts: Create and Sell a Standout Anthology

  with JJ Lee

  Member Price: $18

  Non-Member Price is $28

  **This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 45 days.
  

  
  

  Workshop/Event Description

  The anthology has always been a great way for emerging writers to make their publication debut. But how can you ensure your anthology project stands out in a crowded market? Drawing on examples from his non-fiction Christmastime anthology series, BETTER NEXT YEAR, JJ Lee will walk participants through how best to hone an anthology concept and tap the power of contributors and community to make a project a success. 

  Expected Takeaways

  In this webinar, participants will learn to...

  • sharpen an anthology idea so it stands out from other titles
  • find new contributor structures that benefit the writers, editor, and publisher
  • foster ways for contributors and community to market and support an anthology project. 
    

  
  

  Pick Up JJ's Latest Release

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  Intended audience:

  Writers of every skill level

  
  

  Bio:

  JJ Lee is the editor of the BETTER NEXT YEAR anthology series. Collecting writers' true accounts of their worst holiday seasons ever, the books BETTER NEXT YEAR, UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, and BETTER THIS YEAR open up space for people to share the complicated feelings they may have around Christmastime. He wrote the critically-acclaimed memoir THE MEASURE OF A MAN: THE STORY OF A FATHER, A SON, AND A SUIT, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for nonfiction. He teaches writing at The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University and at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

  
  

  Digital doors open at 6:55 pm, event starts at 7:00 pm

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