Did you know that we accept pitches for online professional development workshops once a year through a public call for Canadian-based facilitators? This call is advertised prominently on our events and workshops webpage when our submission window is open.
If you’re interested in attending workshops or would like to see the types of sessions we’ve offered, please visit our events and workshops webpage to see the sessions currently open for registration.
When can you send your pitch?
We’d love to receive your pitch—but please wait to send it until our submission window is open.
Our submission window for workshop pitches opens around mid-May, and deadlines usually land mid-July.
Why do we ask you to wait before pitching your workshop ideas?
We like to plan far in advance, and we tailor our call for pitches to the types of sessions SWG members and the public want to see. We also ask for pitches to complement the types of sessions we will already have planned. This means our call for workshops and what we’d like to see changes slightly from year to year.
What we like to see:
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.
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.
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 values original and human-generated ideas and content, and we do not accept proposals that were written, developed, or assisted with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. The SWG reserves the right to reject any proposal.
The SWG strongly encourages Indigenous writers, Black writers, writers of colour, disabled writers, gender non-conforming writers, 2SLGBTQIA+ writers, and writers who are otherwise affected by structural inequality to submit workshop proposals during our submission period.
For more information, contact:
Program Manager
T: 306.791.7746 | E: swgevents@skwriter.com
