News & Events
March 24, 2011
BC writers fared well in the 2011 CBC Literary Awards, taking three top places.
Salt Spring Island writer, Brian Brett finished atop the poetry category with his work, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Vancouver writer Gina Leola Woolsey‘s My Best Friend took first place in the creative nonfiction category. Placing second was another Vancouver author, Leslie Beckmann, for her debut novel, The Sum of All Evils.
The CBC Literary Awards recognize unpublished Canadian writing. The full list of winners and excerpts can be found on the CBC Literary Awards website. All 12 winners (English and French) will be celebrated at a Montreal gala Thursday night and their entries published in enRoute magazine, a presenting partner of the CBC Literary Awards along with the Canada Council for the Arts.
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March 23, 2011
Tomorrow evening (Thurs, March 24) memoirist Derek Lundy and poet Suzanne Buffam will be at UBC Robson Square for the Robson Reading Series at 7:00 pm.
Derek Lundy turned 60 at the end of a year in which three good friends have died. He feels the need to do something radical, and sets out on his motorcycle - a Kawasaki KLR 650 cc single-cylinder “thumper.” Fascinated by the United States’ post-9/11 passion for security, particularly on its two international borders, he chooses to investigate. Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America (Knopf Canada, 2010) is his exhilarating account of this 15,000-km trek. Derek makes his home on Salt Spring Island. Borderlands has been shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
In Suzanne Buffam‘s The Irrationalist (House of Anansi Press, 2010), she introduces us to a Chaplinesque literary “irrationalist” whose musings on such earthly wonders as clouds, flags, middle names and moonlight disclose new perspectives on time, faith, and the origins of life. At once whimsical and heartbreaking, these eccentric lyrics investigate the shifting grounds of knowledge while refusing to take any authority – be it Epictetus, Thérèse de Lisieux, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ma Yuan, or the fugitive spectre of self – too seriously. Suzanne currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.
For more information, visit the Robson Reading Series online: Website | Facebook. The UBC Bookstore/Library at Robson Square is located at 800 Robson Street, Plaza Level between Howe & Hornby. Admission is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
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March 17, 2011
Join Maggie de Vries to discover “The Ins and Outs, the Whys and Wherefores, of Research”.
The workshop explores the research component of excerpts from published works and works-in-progress. Participants will brainstorm story possibilities drawn from a variety of sources and answer questions about sources, interviews, changing history, accuracy and the differences between fiction and non-fiction.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Historic Joy Kogawa House
1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
Participants are invited to bring their own research conundrums to the workshop and by the end of the session will have several strategies in place to follow through with development, research, writing, further research, and fact checking. Workshop cost is $135 and includes lunch.
MORE INFO: Website | Facebook
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March 17, 2011
Dan Savard, author of Images from the Likeness House, nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, will speaking at the upcoming Friends of the B.C. Archives lecture series. In his illustrated presentation, Dan will speak about the making of his book, (a 3-decade project), his sources, and what they have revealed.
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Newcombe Conference Hall
Royal BC Museum
675 Belleville St., Victoria
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Images from the Likeness House explores the relationship between First Peoples in British Columbia, Alaska and Washington, and the photographers who made images of them from the late 1850s to the 1920s. He features the images, as they have survived, without digital enhancements, from the earliest glass-plate photographs made by “photographic artists” to snapshots taken by amateurs on nitrate film.
Dan Savard is senior collections manager of the Anthropology Audio Visual Collection at the Royal BC Museum. While this is his first book, he has authored several academic papers and given many illustrated presentations on topics related to photography and First Peoples.
Admission to Friends of the BC Archive lectures is $5 for non-members, payable at the door. Copies of the book will also be available for purchase and signing by Dan.
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March 16, 2011
The 27th annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala will take place April 21, 2011 at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver. See event information for details.
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March 16, 2011
Grant Lawrence certainly is a busy guy, between radio shows, podcasting and book promotions… when does he have time to sleep? Here are some of his appearances around BC:
Saturday, March 19 — TOFINO
Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre
7:30 pm | $6 | book sales by Mermaid Tales Bookshop
Featuring a musical performance by Jill Barber
Sunday, March 20 — PORT ALBERNI
Curious Coho Books | 2:00 pm
Featuring a musical performance by Jill Barber.
Wednesday, April 6 — VANCOUVER
The Flame: A Monthly Storytelling Event
Cottage Bistro, 4470 Main St, Vancouver
Tuesday, April 12 — NORTH VANCOUVER
The North Shore Writers Festival
7:00 pm | North Vancouver City Library
April 15 & 16 — POWELL RIVER
The Powell River Writers Conference
Grant also has some events out-of-province.
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March 14, 2011
Please join us for The BC Book Prizes’ Annual General Meeting.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
6:00 pm
Alliance for Arts & Culture
Board Room –Suite 100
938 Howe Street, Vancouver
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March 02, 2011
The Writers’ Trust of Canada, through the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, rewards writers who are unpublished in book form and under the age of thirty-five. Alternating each year between poetry and short fiction, this year the award is given for an outstanding collection of unpublished poetry.
The Writers’ Trust received submissions from young poets from across Canada, yet the top three, as determined by a jury of poets Kate Braid, Gail Harris, and Robert Priest, all hail from British Columbia. The jurors read 120 “blind” submissions, meaning that all identifying information was removed before the entries were passed along for consideration.
The prize winner will receive $5,000 and finalists each receive $1,000. The three finalists are:
Raoul Fernandes, By Way of Explanation
Fernades is a 32-year-old, Vancouver-based writer who recently completed The Writer’s Studio program at Simon Fraser University. His writing has appeared in Event magazine and he won a Sakura Award in the 2010 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival’s Haiku Invitational.
Garth Martens, Inheritance
Martens is a 28-year-old writer whose work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Island Writer, and the anthology Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man. He currently serves on the editorial board for The Malahat Review and was previously a forest first lookout and construction labourer. Martens lives in Victoria.
Anne-Marie Turza, The Quiet iii
Turza is 34 and lives in Victoria. She has an MFA from the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. Her poetry has appeared in several literary magazines and anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Malahat Review.
The award winner will be announced on April 5, 2011 at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
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February 21, 2011
Evelyn Lau and Ray Hsu will read at the Victoria Learning Theatre at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Room 182) this Thursday, February 24 from 1-2 pm. This is a co-presentation between the Robson Reading Series and the Irving K Barber Learning Centre.
Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from Evelyn Lau‘s previous poetry books. Instead of the focus on relationships and emotional damage that has characterized much of her earlier work, this book opens up to explore new subjects: family history, illness, death and dying, consumerism, and the natural world. In a tone that is often elegiac, without ever being maudlin, these poems are steeped in immortality and loss. Haunted by the pull of the past, there is strength of character and a sense of affirmation in all of these poems. While grounded in travel and in place, the tone is surprisingly meditative and contemplative.
Ray Hsu‘s Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, the follow-up to his award-winning first collection, Anthropy, is the second book in a prospective trilogy that explores the “grammar of personhood.”
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February 16, 2011
The 2nd Annual Galiano Literary Festival will be running from February 25-28, 2011 on Galiano Island.
The Galiano Literary Festival features readings, interviews, workshops, panels and more. Some of the participating authors are Larry Campbell, Ivan E. Coyote, Mona Fertig, Joan Caldwell, Des Kennedy, Billie Livingston, Annabel Lyon, Timothy Taylor, Audrey Thomas, Meg Tilly, Alan Twigg, Ian Weir, and Robert J.Wiersema.
The festival will be held at the Galiano Oceanfront Inn & Spa and is run by independent bookstore Galiano Island Books, which has been on the island for over 10 years, and has become a ‘hub’ of the island community.
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