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The 28th Annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts takes place August 12-15, 2010 in Sechelt.
Several BC Book Prize-nominated (and winning) authors will be presenting. Don’t miss Annabel Lyon, Senator Larry Campbell, and Brian Brett among many other great BC writers. Visit the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts website for full event details.
Join Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks and Trauma Farm author, Brian Brett for a fundraiser for UBC Farm on Wednesday, July 7, at 6:00 p.m. Brian Brett was shortlisted for three different BC Book Prizes in 2010 for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, and won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award.
At the fundraiser, Brian will read from his book and respond to questions on farming issues. Mark Bomford of UBC Farm will also update guests on new developments for UBC farm. This reception will include local wines and an array of UBC Farm’s early summer bounty.
Cost: $75.00 (includes a signed copy of Trauma Farm). Proceeds of all ticket sales will be donated to UBC Farm. Pre-registration is required as space is limited; early booking is advised. Guests receive 10% off all additional merchandise purchased during the event. Visit Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks website for details on how to register.
Kristin Butcher will be running a free writing workshop at Coho Books in Campbell River on Saturday, June 26th. Kristin participated in the BC Book Prizes On Tour and was shortlisted for the 2010 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. She will also be available to sign her books from 9-11am.
Coho Books says, “It will be a free seminar for aspiring authors entitled “The Truth About Writing”. The workshop will talk about critical elements of writing, editing and getting a book published. From tips on creating a work that you will be able to sell to publishers, to avoiding the common pitfalls, this workshop will help writers reach their full potential. There will be a Q&A period for participants to have their specific concerns addressed.”
Coho Books is strongly recommending pre-registration as space is limited. Visit http://www.cohobooks.com”>the Events Page at http://www.cohobooks.com for more information.
!misprision! with Gregory Scofield and Daphne Marlatt
As part of SFU’s 2010 “System Crash” Conference (June 10-12), join Rhizome Cafe as they explore experiences of crisis (political, environmental, social, financial, academic, personal) through a collection of creative presentations and readings. In addition to sharing new voices in Vancouver’s creative community, they are excited to feature locally-based and internationally-appreciated poets Gregory Scofield and Daphne Marlatt.
Friday, June 11, 7:00pm
Free
Rhizome Cafe
317 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC
From two west coast islands come two award-winning authors: Brian Brett and Audrey Thomas. The Robson Reading Series will host this internationally acclaimed duo on May 27th at 7pm at the UBC Bookstore/Library at Robson Square for readings and conversation.
Brian Brett is “a bold thinker and a tough yet lyrical writer,” says Ronald Wright. Brian Brett is the author of two memoirs and several books of poetry and fiction. His journalism has appeared in major Canadian newspapers. His most recent memoir, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone/D&M, 2009), is an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. It has been named a top 100 book for 2009 by Amazon, the Globe and Mail and the Times Literary Supplement. It has also won both the Writers’ Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. Brett lives on Salt Spring Island.
“Page for page, [Audrey Thomas] is one of the country’s best writers,” says Margaret Atwood. Audrey Thomas has published 16 books of fiction and written over 20 plays. She has received many honours including: the Writers Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, the Marian Engel Award and three Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes. Her most recent last novel, Tattycoram (Goose Lane, 2005) takes readers into the distant fictional world of Charles Dickens’s England, where, in an unusual twist, Dickens interacts with his own characters, allowing Thomas to raise questions about the intersection of life and art. A native New Yorker, Thomas has lived on Canada’s west coast since 1959 and currently calls Gabriola Island home.
Admission is free and refreshments are served. Books will be available for purchase and signing. More information at the Robson Reading Series website.
Each year the ABPBC partners with Translink and BC Transit to produce Poetry in Transit. You can visit the website and read PDFs of all the poetry featured since the project began in 1996.
Many poets featured in this year’s Poetry in Transit project have received or been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. See all the 2009 poetry excerpts on the ABPBC website.
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13th Anniversary Poetry in Transit Contest
This much-loved project has been running since 1996 and in that time has featured 190 poems from established and emerging writers. In partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, the ABPBC produces sixteen poetry cards annually featuring the work of BC-authored and Canadian-published poets. The cards are displayed on buses and SkyTrains throughout the transit systems in BC.
To celebrate the April 28th, 2010 launch of this year’s Poetry in Transit, the ABPBC will be hosting the 13th Anniversary Poetry in Transit Contest! Did you meet your soul mate while reading a poem together on the bus? Have you gotten into a heated argument with a fellow passenger over a line in a poem? Tell us your best Poetry in Transit story to be in contention to win the grand prize – all 16 books of poetry from this year’s poets.
See www.books.bc.ca for submission details.
Contest deadline: May 31, 2010
Read Local, Buy Local: An Earth Day Celebration of BC Books and Magazines
Chapters Indigo Books & Music has partnered with three BC organizations—the Association of Book Publishers of BC, the BC Association of Magazine Publishers and the Sierra Club BC—to present “Read Local, Buy Local,” a new event series that encourages readers to think locally when purchasing reading material, just as they do when selecting food and other products.
The “Read Local, Buy Local” series consists of 28 free sessions open to the public, including family activities, readings, talks and demonstrations. Events will be held concurrently at Chapters Robson, Chapters Granville and Chapters Victoria on Thursday, April 22, Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25. BC Book Prize 2010 finalist Andrew Scott, author of The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names will be at Chapters Robson at 3:00 pm on Thursday, April 22.
Visit www.bcmags.com/readlocal for full events listings.
The Shuswap Association of Writers is proud to present the 2010 Shuswap Lake International Writers Festival. Festival dates are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 28, 29 & 30, 2010 at the beautiful Prestige Harbourfront Resort & Convention Centre on Shuswap Lake. Some events will also take place at the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan College and the Salmon Arm Art Gallery.
Brian Brett (nominated in three separate categories for Trauma Farm) is the Keynote Speaker at the Shuswap Lake International Writers Festival. They have a fantastic line-up of speakers including publishers of BC Book Prize books (such as Vici Johnston of Caitlin Press) and Ron Smith of Oolichan Books, whose own title, Elf the Eagle, was nominated for the 2008 Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize.
Check out all the details on the Shuswap Association of Writers website.
subTerrain Magazine has launched its new look with double issue 54/55, showcasing some of Vancouver’s best authors writing about the city.
A number of the contributors to this special Literary Landscape issue will be at the launch party, several of whom have been nominated for BC Book Prizes. At the Launch Party, there will be readings by George Bowering (nominated for the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Cynthia Flood, George Stanley (nominated for the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Catherine Owen (nominated for the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Trevor Carolan, and Peter Trower (nominated for the 2001 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize).
subTerrain invites everyone to come to Café Montmarte “to celebrate Vancouver’s literary past, present, and perhaps future”:
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Café Montmarte
4362 Main Street (@28th)
7 to 9:30 pm | Free
View details at subTerrain.ca
THE ROBSON READING SERIES celebrates NATIONAL POETRY MONTH with GILLIAN JEROME, LAISHA ROSNAU and GREGORY SCOFIELD
April 22nd, 7pm at the UBC Bookstore/Library at Robson Square
The Robson Reading Series will celebrate this passionate, language-rich way of life for Canada’s 10th Annual National Poetry Month. Join poets Gillian Jerome, 2010 Dorothy Livesay Prize nominee; Laisha Rosnau, 2010 Pat Lowther Award nominee; and past Livesay winner Gregory Scofield for readings and conversation.
Gillian Jerome (East Vancouver, BC) will read from Red Nest (Nightwood, 2009), her debut collection of domestic, urban and intergalactic eclogues in which brave and rambunctious creatures nest in the humour and horror of the 21st-century. Gillian’s first non-fiction book, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, won the 2009 City of Vancouver Book Award and was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize. She has also been anthologized in Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets.
Laisha Rosnau (Vernon, BC) will read from Lousy Explorers (Nightwood, 2009), her second collection, in which husbands and wives stumble into each other at the end of days, children find the wild edges of suburbs, new mothers try to navigate through a map-less terrain, and a relentless epidemic of bugs eats away at the forest. Laisha’s first collection, Notes on Leaving, won the Acorn-Plantos Poetry Award in 2005 and her novel, The Sudden Weight of Snow, was a finalist for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Gregory Scofield (Maple Ridge, BC) will read from kipocihkân, his first anthology of urban Aboriginal songs, which is a retrospective of his pivotal work to date. The word kipocihkân is Cree slang for someone who is mute or unable to speak, and charted in this book is Gregory’s journey out of that silence to become one of the most powerful voices of our time. Gregory is a Metis writer and activist. He has published five highly praised books of poetry and a memoir, Thunder Through My Veins. He has received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Canadian Authors Association award for most promising young writer and the Confederation Poets Prize.
Admission is free and refreshments are served. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, contact us at 604.822.6453 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please also visit us on the web: www.robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca.
