Director N. J. Lindquist has been guiding the conference since July of 2001, and she’s more than happy to act as mentor and cheerleader while others with new ideas and enthusiasm take over the reins. Two new assistant directors plus a dozen other new volunteers will make the 2012 conference the best organized one yet! Continue reading…
Since writers put words together in anything from letters to Web content, and from newspaper columns to books, Maranatha News interviews N.J. Lindquist, Write! Canada Conference Director. Maranatha News: What special group does Write! Canada’s large conference target? NJ Lindquist: Christians who are now writing or editing, or who dream of one day being a Continue reading…
We are pleased to announce our three plenary speakers for 2011. Each will speak on the conference theme, "Changing the World With Words." Thursday evening: Tim Huff Tim is an active public speaker across North America around issues of contemporary social justice, domestic poverty, hope, dignity and street culture – speaking in schools (elementary to Continue reading…
Author and speaker N. J. Lindquist, and writer and editor Wendy Elaine Nelles have worked together as co-directors of the conference since the summer of 2001. Last June, Patricia Paddey spent time with each of them during Write! Canada 2009, to record their thoughts about a quarter century of conferences for Canadian writers who are Continue reading…
In February of 2006, I attended the Leading Women conference in Calgary. Longing to be in Ottawa with our new grandson, I wondered why I’d come to the opposite part of the nation. For some time, I’d had the urge to write a book. During that weekend the feelings increased. At the end of the Continue reading…