Write! Canada combines professional development with a spiritual retreat. After you’ve attended a few times, it also feels like a family reunion. When I attended the God Uses Ink conference in 2001 (the year before it became Write! Canada), it was only my second time at a writing conference. I was involved in two online Continue reading…
Writers’ conferences have been refreshment stands along the marathon route to publication of my book, Blooming. The first time I went to a God Uses Ink conference, I came home with John Redekop’s book, Two Sides, The Best of Personal Opinion 1964-1984. “I can do that,” I said to myself. “Only, I’ll do it different…less Continue reading…
Write! Canada is a special place of retreat and revitalization for me. I have always known that I was different from those who don’t write. As a child, words fascinated me, and it drove me to distraction when they were misused and misspelled. As I aged and the reprimands of teachers and family forced me Continue reading…
In the fall of 1995, when Audrey Dorsch resigned as the editor of Faith Today and director of the God Uses Ink Conference, I was part of the planning committee. Even though Faith Today was short-staffed and assistant editor Marianne Meed Ward knew she could not handle the workload of both putting out the magazine Continue reading…
We hope that many of you will send in your stories about how the Write! Canada/God Uses Ink conference has impacted your life over the past 25 years. Please send your story to us and we will post it here. Or you can add your story as a comment at the bottom of this page if it’s Continue reading…