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The TWC Editor/Mentorship Programme
is a response to the many requests we have received for editors
or published authors, to assist with completed or nearly completed
manuscripts.
Interested writers purchase
from TWC, blocks of editing/mentorship time (5, 10, 15 and 20
hours) at costs of $465, $740, $1,015 and $1,290 respectively,
plus GST. TWC will assign an appropriate mentor to the writer,
based upon the manuscript and the mentor's availability. A writer
may request a specific mentor, however, TWC cannot guarantee
that such a request will be honoured. The writer agrees to work
with whatever mentor is assigned to him or her.
The mentor will read the manuscript
and make handwritten notes on the manuscript for discussion with
the mentoree in a face-to-face meeting. Full manuscript assessment
reports will not be provided. Meetings may be held at TWC or
at another location convenient to the mentor. Writers should
record these meetings rather than take notes.
Blocks of time include reading
time, note-making time as well as face-to-face meeting time,
so writers should be sure to select enough time for their manuscript.
Interested writers should send
an email to TWC at md@writerscentre.ca
containing the following:
- the amount of time they wish
to purchase;
- their name, address, phone
number and email address;
- a short sample of their proposed
manuscript (no more than 3,000 words);
- a general description of their
manuscript, including length; and
- name of the requested mentor,
if any.
Payment is by cheque only and
no work will be undertaken until the cheque clears.
Faculty:
Nino Ricci:
Nino Ricci's first novel, the
best-selling Lives of the Saints, garnered international acclaim,
appearing in over a dozen countries and winning a host of awards,
including, in Canada, the Governor General's Award for Fiction
and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and in England, the
Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Prize. It was followed
by In A Glass House and Where She Has Gone, which completed the
trilogy that Lives of the Saints began. Where She Has Gone was
shortlisted for the Giller Prize for Fiction. The Lives of the
Saints trilogy was recently adapted for a miniseries starring
Sophia Loren, Sabrina Ferilli, and Kris Kristofferson. Nino Ricci's
most recent novel is Testament. It was the co-winner of the Trillium
Award as well as being shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize
for Canada and the Caribbean and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction
Prize.
Karen Connelly:
Karen Connelly is the author of eight books of best-selling nonfiction,
poetry, and, most recently, a novel set in Burma. Born in 1969,
she is one of Canada's best-known younger writers, and has read
from and lectured on her work in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Connelly's book include Touch The Dragon, A Thai Journal, which
became a national bestseller and also won the Governor General's
Award for Non-Fiction in 1993, when she was just twenty-four.
Her first book of poetry The Small Words in My Body won the Pat
Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman in
1991. Her other books include This Brighter Prison, One Room
in a Castle--Letters from Spain, France, and Greece, The Disorder
of Love, The Border Surrounds Us. A recent new edition of her
earlier poetry is entitled Grace and Poison. Her bestselling
new novel, The Lizard Cage, was one of the Globe and Mail's Top
100 Books for 2005. It was recently nominated for the international
Kiriyama Prize and will soon be appearing in a dozen countries
around the world.
Russell Smith:
Russell Smith is the author
of six books of fiction. His education was in French literature.
His last novel, Muriella Pent, is a post-colonial satire set
in Toronto. It was shortlisted for the Rogers Fiction Prize and
the Toronto Book Award, and longlisted for the Impac Dublin Prize.
He writes regularly on cultural and linguistic issues for the
Globe and Mail, and is the host of the CBC Radio show And Sometimes
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