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Café Life
The Colony's main salon… Of all the gin joints in all the towns of the world… this is the best!
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Self-Publishing
Not just for self-publishers… Also featuring the dark arts of book marketing & publicity, self-promotion and more
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Writers' Huddle
Led by Peter Cox, Huddles are part live workshops, part boot camps and part party! Bring your synopses, titles, blurbs, first chapters – and questions… lots of them. Huddles are included in your Full Membership! Booking essential.
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The Writing Laboratory The Colony's creative nexus. Critiques on your work-in-progress. Meet like-minded writers – and get to work!
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Please read (and watch) our friendly user guides that will help you select the best types of critiques for your work in development
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Writers sharing their skills, tricks & insights with other writers… that’s how you learn the Craft!
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Poetry - The World Between the Words
That which is not prose must be poetry; and this is the place for it.
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The FLASH Club
Our monthly tiny-but-perfectly-formed flash fiction contest!
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The Book Club
It's a book club for all members... but not as you know it
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LITOPIA WRITERS’ SEMINARS
Litopia’s Writers’ Seminars are a radical new reinterpretation of the tired – and often exorbitantly expensive – seminar format for writers.
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The Trouble with PropheciesDerrick never saw the point of being a hero... till he made friends with some.- Jake E
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Thought For The Day
If you are....
If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
Brendan O'Carroll
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Award finalist (x3!)
You have a WAY with titles. Congratulations. If you can, be sure and link them here so we can read. They sound exactly my taste.
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Announcing A New Way To Consume Courses & Seminars Here! And… The First Seminar…
Love this seminar. Thank you for what I'm sure was a mammoth amount of work! Super appreciated. Tons of useful stuff. I like the different...
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Blogging Comes To Litopia - Beta Testers Needed!
Thank you, everyone above! I'm so pleased you've volunteered to be beta-testers. That's all I need just for the moment, so I'm closing the thread...
