At Chartwell Meadowbrook Retirement Community on Oct. 29th, reading from Product of Italy 🇮🇹, Made in Canada 🇨🇦: An Immigrant's Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience. @latitude46pub.bsky.social Thanks #thewritersunionofcanada & #canadacouncilforthearts for supporting this public reading 🇨🇦

Alberta Must Reverse Book Bans | The Writers' Union of Canada

Thanks, as always, for your advocacy, #TheWritersUnionofCanada.

Public Lending Right | The Writers' Union of Canada

#TheWritersUnionofCanada has three goals in the 2025 federal election:
1. Increase public investment in the writing sector writersunion.ca/advocacy/pub...
2. Strengthen copyright law writersunion.ca/advocacy/cop...
3. Regulate new technology (AI) writersunion.ca/advocacy/art...

Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

Thanks to #TheWritersUnionofCanada and @cwillbc.bsky.social for alerts re unauthorized AI publishing of books. I found a hefty number of my @orcabook.bsky.social kids/YA novels. Here's a template letter to send if you're in the same (misappropriated) boat. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

The Whistler Independent Book Awards - Whistler Independent Book Awards The Whistler Independent Book Awards recognize excellence in Canadian self-publishing. The WIBAs are the only juried awards in Canada for self-published authors

The 2025 #WhistlerIndependentBookAwards are OPEN for submissions! Presented by #TheWritersUnionofCanada, the Awards recognize excellence in Canadian self-publishing.

Each submitter will receive a constructive critique of their work. Visit www.independentbookawards.ca. Submit by APRIL 30, 2025.

Awards | The Writers' Union of Canada

From #TheWritersUnionofCanada:

Deadline to submit to the annual 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award: January 31. $10,000 is awarded to a Canadian writer for the best first collection of published short fiction in English. Two finalists are awarded $1,000 each. www.writersunion.ca/awards#:~:te....

I'm grateful for #TheWritersUnionofCanada whose #writingforchildren competition gave me a boost of confidence to revise & sub my entry/story which became my first published picture book. #kidlitchat