Introducing our new MWG Book Chats – virtual events to access from the comfort of your own home!
They will occur on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM. Each evening starts with a Featured Published Author, followed by a brief Q&A. After the Q&A, we’ll have an Open Mic where members can share their writing, about 5 minutes per reading. We have quite a line-up of Manitoba Writers willing to participate, for which we are truly grateful.
All members can participate – and it’s free!
Sign-up in advance, via emails to the Guild (), to receive the on-line invites to join the Zoom meetings. Please let us know if you would also like to read something during the Open Mic segment.
Our first chat occurred on May 13, 7:00 pm and featured Margaret Sweatman.
In case you have not met Margaret Sweatman, here are some things you should know:
Website: margaretsweatman.com
Margaret Sweatman is a novelist, playwright, poet, and performer (vocalist and harmonica). Her plays have been produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange, Popular Theatre Alliance and the Guelph Spring Festival. She has performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and the National Academy Orchestra, as well as with her own Broken Songs Band and other new music ensembles. Her stories and poetry are published in Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, Contemporary Verse 2 and elsewhere. Margaret’s writing has won the Rogers Writers Trust Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Award, the Margaret Laurence Award, the McNally Robinson Award, and the Sunburst Award.
NOVELS:
(To purchase any novel by Margaret go to your favourite bookstore or use the links below.)
Mr. Jones (Goose Lane 2014)
“Prose as lyrical and transparent as Ondaatje, as political astute and fiercely clear-eyed as Didion. “
— Lisa Moore, author of February and Caught
The Players (Goose Lane 2009)
“… magical … a wonderfully humourous tale ….”
— Andrew Armitage, The Sun Times
When Alice Lay Down with Peter (Knopf 2001)
“… hurtles forward with wit and vitality, deeply satisfying and inspiring.”
— Charlotte Gray, The National Post
Sam and Angie (Turnstone Press 1996)
… gripping … the elegance, precision, and beauty with which the story is told.”
— Letters in Canada, 1996
Fox (Turnstone Press 1992, reissued 2017)
“… an utterly brilliant novel … both intimate and epic.”
— The Globe and Mail
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780676973167/margaret-sweatman/when-alice-lay-down-with-peter
https://gooselane.com/collections/fiction
https://www.turnstonepress.com/author/margaret-sweatman/fiction.html