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Editing Your Novel

Simcoe NaNoWriMo

2021-12-01 19:00:00 2021-12-01 20:00:00 America/New_York Editing Your Novel Finished that NaNoWriMo novel? Have a book needing some review? Bruce Meyer will share tips on how to shape up your manuscript yourself. Online -

Wednesday, December 01
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-12-01 19:00:00 2021-12-01 20:00:00 America/New_York Editing Your Novel Finished that NaNoWriMo novel? Have a book needing some review? Bruce Meyer will share tips on how to shape up your manuscript yourself. Online -

Finished that NaNoWriMo novel? Have a book needing some review? Bruce Meyer will share tips on how to shape up your manuscript yourself.

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Explore: Simcoe National Novel Writing Month

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Bruce Meyer is author of 67 books (with nine more forthcoming by the end of 2022) of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and non-fiction. He has had three national bestsellers (The Golden Thread, We Wasn't Pals, and Portraits of Canadian Writers). His short stories have won or been shortlisted for numerous international prizes including the Fish Fiction Prize (IRE), the Retreat West Fiction Prize (UK), the Anton Chekhov Prize (UK), the Tom Gallon Trust Fiction Prize (UK), the Bath Short Story Prize (UK), the Thomas Morton Prize (CAN), the Freefall Fiction Prize (CAN), the Carter V. Cooper Prize (CAN), the Strand International Short Fiction Prize (IND), and the London Independent Short Story Prize (UK).

He was the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie (2010 to 2014), Artistic Director of the Leacock Summer Festival of Canadian Literature (1999 to 2008) in Orillia, and is currently a mentor in the BMO Mentorship Program with Exile Editions. His work was the subject of a course last year in the Publishing Practicum Program at the University of Windsor. He lives in Barrie and teaches at Georgian College.

(Photo Credit: Katie Meyer)



Join 8 Simcoe County libraries as they celebrate National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and support writers on their journey to write a novel in one month with space to write, access to wifi, computers, resources and virtual socials/write-ins and events. Participating Libraries include; Barrie, Bradford West Gwillimbury, Essa, Innisfil, Midland, New Tecumseth, Ramara, and Wasaga Beach.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Authors |

TAGS: | Nanowrimo |

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