A virtual event that happens at 7:00 pm CST on the second Wednesday each month.
We feature established authors, who read from their work and answer audience questions.
This is a great opportunity to learn about the writing process from page to print, and connect with members of your writing community!
To take part in these evenings, please email to receive the Zoom invitation.
Program News
October 15, 2024
Book Chat: Sally Ito
By barb janes Japan, Japan / If I say it enough \ Will it come true? Only a secure writer opens her reading with words from another writer as Sally Ito did with the above poem by David Fujino. In 11 short words, Fujino’s poem evokes the deep longing for culture and identity that spurred Sally Ito to write The Emperor’s Orphans, a cultural memoir about her family. Facilitated by MWG’s Susan Rocan, this Zoom …
October 9, 2024
Book Chat with Katherine Bitney
by Steve Oetting On Sept. 11, Katherine Bitney, one of the founders of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and Prairie Fire Magazine, provided us with an engaging book chat. She noted that it was many years ago when they started the Guild and an extremely exciting time, a virtual “explosion of literature in our province.” She felt they had virtually no idea what they were doing and mostly “flew by the seat of their pants.” I …
June 2, 2024
Carmelo Militano: Love Poems from Archeologia Eros
Book Chat Review by Amanda Le Rougetel
On Valentine’s Day, a small group enjoyed an intimate online reading of love poems by MWG member Carmelo Militano. He chose selections from his book Archeologia Eros, work inspired by others’ erotic poems.