Events & Workshops

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild is seeking proposals for online professional development workshops from Canadian-based writers to offer starting in September 2025. We are looking for ideas and facilitators who are willing and comfortable using Zoom to offer workshops on the craft or business of writing. We are planning virtual workshops.

The SWG’s Professional Development workshop series focuses on the craft and business of writing. Its goal is to offer skill development for beginning, emerging, or established writers by established writers from a diversity of genres and backgrounds.

Our interactive online workshops will range in length from 90 minutes to 2 hours.

Numbers of participants may range from 8-16 people.

In some cases, we may offer 75-minute webinar presentations with unlimited participants.

Workshops are interactive, meaning the facilitator and participants will be in a Zoom meeting room and will see and hear each other. Interactive sessions may include group discussion, writing prompts, activities, polls, breakout rooms, PowerPoint (or similar technology) presentations, or more.

Webinar presentations are less interactive – a facilitator and host will be on screen, but you will not see participants' cameras/mics. This is a great format for a presentation on a topic followed by a moderated Q&A.

We invite proposals for online presentations and/or workshops to complement the sessions the SWG already has planned. We are open to proposals that relate to all other topics on the craft and business of writing in all genres that aren’t mentioned below, but we are particularly interested in proposals that address:

Craft of writing

• fiction in all lengths and genres (including literary, YA, children’s, romance, thriller, horror, fantasy, crime, etc.)
• poetry and/or spoken word
• script writing (plays and/or screenplays),
• memoir
• comics/graphic novels, or other forms

Business of writing

• accounting and income tax,
• self-employment and incorporation,
• marketing and promotion

Renumeration for 75- and 90-minute sessions is $300 and $350 for a 2-hour session.

Preference will be given to proposals that fit the goals of the professional development workshops and are offered by writers residing in Saskatchewan who are representative of a diversity of ideas and identities. Out-of-province applicants must explain their connections to the Saskatchewan writing community in their application. The SWG reserves the right to reject any proposal.

In Your Proposal, please include:

• Name and contact info (email, address, phone)
• Title, description and brief outline of workshop (maximum 750 words) 
• The anticipated length of the workshop
• Preferred number of participants
• Your Artist CV (please include teaching experience) (Max 5 pages)
• Your experience with offering online workshops or classes 
• Your biography (100 words max)
• If you reside out-of-Saskatchewan, please explain your connections to the SK writing community.
• If you have accessibility requirements for yourself or participants that you would like us to include when planning the workshop.
• We encourage applicants to self-declare if they identify as a writer who is a member of group(s) experiencing marginalization and underrepresentation. (i.e. Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour, 2SLGBTQ+, or Disability).

Proposals must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, July 14, 2025. Please email your proposal to swgevents@skwriter.com.