Coop Scoop e-newsletter
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The Coop Scoop is emailed to the vast majority of the Coop's approximately 120 members, plus several fellow organizational members of the arts and literary community. A few members pay a slightly higher membership fee to receive a hard copy version of the Scoop.
The Coop Scoop is emailed on or about the 15th of every month (except July and August). Hard copy readers receive theirs a few days later.
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Coop Scoop Submission Guidelines
Part of our mission at The Saskatoon Writers' Coop is to foster a sense of excitement in our community about writers and their work. We invite and encourage members to submit details of their writing-related event for promotion or celebration in the Member Squawks section of our newsletter, the Coop Scoop.
We invite other individuals or organizations to submit details of writing-related events they feel might benefit our members. These will be published in the Jot Notes section of the Coop Scoop, if space allows. (Priority will always be given to submissions by Coop members.)
Before you submit, please take a moment to review the following submission guidelines.
Member Squawks
The Member Squawks section of the Coop Scoop offers Coop members a soap-box from which to celebrate or promote any aspect of their writing life. If you are a Coop member, you use this section to:
- announce the publication of a new book;
- report a contest entered or prize won;
- promote a launch;
- put out a call for submissions.
You may also use the Member Squawks section for much less formal announcements, such as:
- the completion of a manuscript after a long, hard slog
- the move from part-time to full-time writing
- the sale of an article to a major magazine...
- really, anything you feel like “crowing” about to a like-minded community.
Jot Notes
Items submitted to Jot Notes must contain information likely to interest a community of writers. We welcome submissions from:
- local, regional and national organizations for writers and editors
- organizations representing members of the local arts community
- publishers
- booksellers
- public relations agencies and departments.
How to Format Your Announcement:
- The body of the announcement must be no longer than 75 words.
- Include no date, time, place, contact or fee information in the body of the announcement.
- Make the above information easy for readers to find, read, and remember: place it after the body of the announcement, in the following order:
Day, date, year
Time
Location
Fee
Registration and/or contact info
Deadline for registration, if any.
Submission Deadline & Address:
Coop Scoop submission deadline is the 10th of the month. Send your submission to scoop_ed@writerscoop.org
Inclusion Policy
Inclusion in the Coop Scoop is determined first by Coop policy, and second at the editor's discretion. Otherwise, it's first come, first served. Send your announcement in as early as possible!
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Coop Scoop Readers
The majority of the members of the Saskatoon Writers' Coop are working and aspiring writers. Some write full-time, some write part-time, others whenever they can find a spare minute.
Members include established, emerging and beginning writers, and range in age from teens, to maturing-nicely, to aged-to-perfection.
The membership is as diverse as the general population in all ways but one: they are united by their deep appreciation for the literary arts, and for the practice of creative writing in particular. They write-- and read--poetry, fiction, essays, literary journalism, and plays.
