May 12, 2012
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Jen Currin has won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry for The Inquisition Yours, published by Coach House Books.
The Audre Lorde Award is one of The Publishing Triangle’s annual awards, honouring gay and lesbian publishing. Congrats Jen!
The National Magazine Awards were released this morning, and many great BC writers and magazines have been nominated. We wanted to offer our congratulations to the following authors who have also been nominated for BC Book Prizes. (Apologies if we missed anyone.)
ESSAYS:
Eve Joseph
Intimate Strangers
Malahat Review
J.B. MacKinnon
A 10 Percent World
The Walrus
TRAVEL:
J.B MacKinnon
Island Survivor
British Columbia Magazine
J.B. MacKinnon
The Highland Fling
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:
Ross King
What Tom Thomson Saw
The Walrus
Geist Magazine is presenting a writing workshop with Caroline Adderson called Writing the Narrative Scene
The scene is the dramatic heart of fiction, where plot, setting and character come together on the page. In this intensive workshop we will study examples of successful narrative scenes, analyze their elements, including the effective use of dialogue, and, of course, write them. Write lots of them!
This workshop is useful for both short-fiction writers and novelists. It is led by Caroline Adderson, a fiction writer and teacher.
Caroline Adderson is the author of three novels, The Sky Is Falling, A History of Forgetting and Sitting Practice (winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2004), and two collections of short stories, Bad Imaginings and Pleased to Meet You. She lives in Vancouver.
Writing the Narrative Scene
Location: Listel Hotel, 1300 Robson Street, Vancouver BC
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Price: $50 (includes a one-year subscription to Geist for yourself or a friend)
To register click here or call Geist at 604–681–9161
In honour of National Poetry Month (April), CBC Radio celebrated with a Canada Reads Poetry competition.
The contenders were:
We’re so proud of Rita and her book, forage, which also won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Congratulations to both Rita Wong and her publisher, Nightwood Editions.
Here are the prizes we’re offering for our Finalist contest. Click here for details on how to enter.
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PRIZE #1 Life & Art on the West Coast: Fishing with Gubby by Gary Kent and Kim La Fave | Defiant Spirits by Ross King Winner drawn April 8: STEVE MURPHY |
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PRIZE #2 History at Home: Voices of British Columbia by Robert Budd (including 3 audio discs) Winner drawn April 11: ERIN HANSON |
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PRIZE #3 Poetry & Song: The Inquisition Yours by Jen Currin | Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life by Morris Bates Winner drawn April 13: ARIEL GORDON |
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PRIZE #4 Exploring Humanity: Chernov’s Toil and Peace by Rifet Bahtijaragic | Adventures in Solitude by Grant Lawrence Winner drawn April 18: ZOE GRAMS |
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PRIZE #5 Two Children’s Books: Up We Grow! by Deborah Hodge and Brian Harris | Salmon Bears by Nicholas Read and Ian McAllister Winner to be drawn April 19 at 1:00 pm |
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PRIZE #6 Two books by Polly Horvath: My One Hundred Adventures (shortlisted last year) and the sequel, Northward to the Moon (shortlisted this year) Winner to be drawn April 19 at 5:00 pm |
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PRIZE #7 Full of Adventure: Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow by Zsuzsi Gartner (editor) | Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries Winner to be drawn April 20 at 4:00 pm |
The BC Historical Federation annually awards the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing to authors of British Columbia history.
1st Place: Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
2nd Place: Dan Savard, Images from the Likeness House
3rd Place: Dorothy Faulkner, Elaine Park and Cathy Jenks, Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History
Honourable Mentions:
• Alan Twigg, The Essentials: 150 Great BC Books & Authors
• Robert Budd, Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier
• Jane Stevenson, The Railroader’s Wife: Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Congratulations to all the authors including BC Book Prize finalists Sylvia Olsen, Dan Savard and Robert Budd, and BC Book Prize co-founding member Alan Twigg.
The Historic Joy Kogawa House is having a writing workshop with Zsuzsi Gartner titled, “Inviting the Reader In and the Power of Point of View”.
Sunday, June 5, 2011. 10 am to 3 pm
Historic Joy Kogawa House
Cost: $135 (includes lunch)
To register, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The single-most important choice you can make in writing short fiction is deciding on what point of view (or points of view) a story should be told from. During this workshop you’ll do writing exercises, as well as read your work out loud and discuss your writing with the class. Zsuzsi will provide a mini course pack that you’ll use for examples and inspiration and are welcome to take home with you.
Read Local for Kids is an afternoon event at the White Rock Library on Sunday, April 17, 2011 from 2-4 pm.
Children and adults alike will have the opportunity to meet local authors, hear readings and discuss their books. Authors include Gina McMurchy-Barber (finalist for the 2011 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize), and Lois Peterson, Diane Tullson, Craig Spence (finalist for the 2007 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize), Rebecca Kool, Cristy Watson and Paola Opal.
More info: CWILL BC blog | Facebook Event
Friends Across the Pacific: An Evening of Readings & Performances is organized by The BC Japan Earthquake Fund and the Asian Canadian Studies Society to help support reliefe efforts in Japan.
Join some of Vancouver’s finest writers for an evening of poetry, fiction, performance. Authors include Daphne Marlatt, Joanne Arnott, Proma Tagore, Roy Miki, Lydia Kwa, Hiromi Goto, Fred Wah, and more.
Event takes place at VIVO Media Arts Centre on March 31, 2011. Admission by donation (all donations will go to the Canadian Red Cross through the BC-Japan Earthquake Relief Fund). All ages, must be 19+ to purchase alcohol.
More info: Facebook Event | Joanne Arnott’s Blog
Incite – An Exploration of Books and Ideas is a reading series co-organized by the Vancouver International Writers’ Festival and the Vancouver Public Library. Every second Wednesday evening they host a few authors for a free presentation at 7:30 pm.
On Wednesday, April 6, Timothy Taylor, Gurjinder Basran and Rupinder Gill will be reading at Incite.
Timothy will be giving a multimedia presentation for his new novel, The Blue Light Project, which tracks three days in the life of an unnamed North American city gripped by a hostage taking in a television studio in the centre of town. Timothy Taylor’s novel Stanley Park was shortlisted for the 2002 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. He also contributed to Darwin’s Bastards, shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award.
Gurjinder will be reading from her Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize shortlisted title, Everything Was Good-Bye, where a young Indo-Canadian woman growing up in the Lower Mainland traces her life as she struggles to assert her independence in the Punjabi community.
Rupinder Gill will be reading from her memoir, On the Outside Looking Indian, during which she pursued everything she wished had been a part of her youth.
