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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. 
    

  
  

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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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• AGM 2025: Annual General Meeting

  • When
    16 Dec 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 7:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  It is that time of year again - AGM.

  We are aiming to keep this year's AGM short and sweet to tackle the basic business of the organization. This is a great opportunity to learn about ways you can be more involved in your Federation of BC Writers.

  We are aiming to hold another, much more comprehensive AGM in the Spring to get us back into our normal cycle. This year, we had some significant changes in board and staff and it took a little longer than we had hoped to finalize all the pieces we needed.

  To inquire about board, committee, and other opportunities to make a difference in our community of writers, please email our board chair, Tara Avery at president@bcwriters.ca We do not take nominations for the board live at the AGM. If you are interested, please advise us in advance.

  All registrants must be in good standing by the AGM start to be able to attend and vote.

  
  

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• Sunday Webinar: Writing from Midlife and Beyond with Glenn Mori

  • When
    18 Jan 2026
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Writing from Midlife and Beyond 

  with Glenn Mori

  Member Price: $18

  Non-Member Price is $28

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

  Workshop/Event Description

  Writing after midlife isn’t just about having more years of experience behind you—it’s writing with a different brain, body, and schedule. In this session, Glenn Mori will guide participants through a discussion of challenges like fluctuating energy, perfectionism, and comparing yourself to younger writers. Participants will leave the session with strategies to manage writing obstacles and take advantage of your mature creative mind. 

  Intended audience:

  Writers in, approaching, or past midlife.

  
  

  Bio:

  Glenn Mori teaches beginning and intermediate fiction writers, and his writing has been honed by the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive and many, many workshops. He has served as an editorial assistant for an online literary magazine as well as a first reader for contests by Geist, the Federation of BC Writers, and other organizations. His published works range from 500 to 22,000 words and have been featured by the CBC and by McSweeney's Internet Tendency, amongst others.

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

  
  

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