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Announcing SeaWords Creative Writing Workshop
Seawords Workshop (seawords@upei.ca)
The University of Prince Edward Island and the Lucy Maud Montgomery
Institute proudly present the first annual SeaWords Creative Writing
Workshop, from August 18-22, at Brackley Beach, PEI. The 2008 event is
themed “Canada’s Women Writers” in celebration of L.M. Montgomery, PEI’s
most famous author, and will feature some of Canada’s most exciting
literary talent.
We want to create as much interest as possible in this new and exciting
venture. I would really appreciate it if you would include the attached
information in promotions for upcoming events, in your newsletter, and
on your website or member listservs.
Please review the attached information, graphic and associated website
(www.seawords.ca) for information. Thank you for any promotion or
advertising you may be able to assist us with in your organization. We
believe that this will be an exciting opportunity for your organization.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for information or promotional
items.
See you on the Island this summer!
SeaWords 2008
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Hi Donna:
Would you mind letting your group members know about The Symposium on the Book taking place in Vancouver on July 12th. This is our seventh year and for the first time we are looking at genre fiction.
Since your group is all about anything to do with books, this promotion would be appropriate I think.
Here is the event link on FB http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=20227606007&ref=mf
And the website link is
http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/pubworks/symposium+book.html
All the best,
Suzanne
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The Art Bar Poetry Series takes place at
Clinton’s, 693 Bloor Street West, (Toronto), right by Christie Subway Station.
Click for map: http://www.artbar.org/artbarmap.jpg
Every Tuesday, 8:00 p.m. sharp.
Free, but we pass the hat for donations.
TUESDAY JUNE 17, 2008
James Deahl was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved to
Canada in 1970. He is the author of seventeen literary titles, most recently
When Rivers Speak (Unfinished Monument Press); The River’s Stone Roots:
Two Dozen Poems by Tu Fu (Serengeti Press); If Ever Two Were One
(Aeolus Press). He lives in Hamilton.
Lisa Pasold recently returned to Toronto after living in Paris, France for
the past decade. Last winter, she spent three months in Dawson City, Yukon,
as the Berton House writer-in-residence. As a journalist, she has worked in
such places as Belarus, Marrakech and Kenya. She is the author of two books
of poetry. Weave (Frontenac House) was a finalist for the Alberta Book Award.
A Bad Year For Journalists (Frontenac House) appeared in 2006.
Pier Giorgio di Cicco has authored seventeen collections of poetry since
1976 and was a seminal figure in Canadian multiculturalism with his
edition of the first anthology of Italian-Canadian writers. In 1984 he
removed himself from the world of letters and became an Augustinian
Brother, and was subsequently ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood.
He returned to the world of literature in 2000 with four successive
volumes of poetry including The Dark Time of Angels (The Mansfield Press)
which was nominated for the 2004 Trillium Award. He is the Poet Laureate
of the city of Toronto.
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Headline: Only a Few Weeks Left to Apply for the Victoria School of Writing’s Summer School Intensive Program.Registration is now open for our 13th annual intensive summer session, July 20 – 25, 2008. We’re proud to introduce the seven accomplished Canadian authors who will lead our workshops this year: Steven Galloway— “Fiction and the Truth”Sarah Leavitt— “Developing a Graphic Narrative” (Graphica)Curtis Gillespie— “Why Memoir?”Rita Moir— “Writing Deeply” (Creative Non-Fiction)Rosemary Neering— “Getting Published: From Idea to Proposal to Manuscript to Book” Kathy Page— “The Lovely Hybrid” (Short Fiction)Susan Stenson— “When the Shadows of the Heart Lift” (Poetry) For more information, please visit our website: vswblog.wordpress.comFor questions, please email: coord@victoriaschoolofwriting.org
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The National Magazine Awards Foundation (NMAF) announced the 31st annual National Magazine Awards nominations at a reception at Restaurant Wilson in Montreal. The NMAF also announced the three finalists for Magazine of the Year, the winner of the Best New Magazine Writer award, the winner of third annual Best Student Writer Award, and the recipient of the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement.
From more than 2,100 individual entries nationwide, the NMAF’s 200 judges nominated a total of 303 submissions in 76 different Canadian magazines for awards in 39 categories. The Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention awards will be announced in Toronto on June 6.
The Walrus leads all magazines with 37 nominations. Toronto Life is next with 29 nominations, followed by Maclean’s (18), Report on Business (16), L’actualité (15) and explore (14).
For a complete list of nominations, visit www.magazine-awards.com.
The three finalists for the coveted award Magazine of the Year are L’actualité, Maisonneuve and Toronto Life.
The NMAF’s third annual award for Best Student Writer goes to Julia Belluz for her article “I” that appeared in the Ryerson Review of Journalism (Spring 2007). Honourable Mention goes to Dan Yates and Meena Nallainathan.
The winner of this year’s award for Best New Magazine Writer is Patrick White, for an article entitled “Red Rush” that appeared in The Walrus (April 2007)
For a full text of the winning articles, visit www.magazine-awards.com.
The NMAF’s most prestigious individual prize since its inception in 1990 is The Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement. This year the NMAF is honoured to name Charles Oberdorf as the recipient for his exceptional contributions to the Canadian magazine community.
Charles has been part of the Canadian magazine community for more than 35 years. As a freelance writer, columnist and staff editor, he has contributed to Saturday Night, Canadian, Financial Post Magazine, Homemakers, Ontario Medicine, Weekend Magazine, IE:Money, Elm Street and City & Country Home. For years he was one of the anonymous team of four that produced Toronto Life’s monthly “Epicure” food column.
Since 1994 he has taught magazine editing in the School of Continuing Education at Ryerson, and since 2002 he has been Coordinator of the school’s Magazine Publishing program. Read more about Charles and the Outstanding Achievement Award at www.magazine-awards.com.
On June 6, the Canadian magazine industry will gather at the Carlu in Toronto for the 31st annual National Magazine Awards gala.
Come be a part of the fun, the feast and the festivity with the celebrated stars and brilliant minds of Canadian magazines.
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ACORN-PLANTOS AWARD
The Acorn-Plantos Award for Peoples Poetry is awarded annually to a
Canadian poet, based on a book published in the previous calendar year.
The work should follow in the tradition of Acorn, Livesay, Purdy, Plantos and
Others by being accessible to all people in its use of language and image.
The award is open to any living poet who is a Canadian citizen or landed
immigrant. The work may be entered by the poet or the publisher. The award
itself honours the poet.
The award consists of a cheque for $500.00 CDN and a medallion.
The deadline for entries published in 2007 is June 30, 2008, received.
To enter, send five copies and a cheque for $25.00 for each title to:
Acorn-Plantos Award
c/o Jeff Seffinga
36 Sunset Avenue
Hamilton, ON
L8R 1V6
For further information contact: jeffseff@allstream.net
Previous winners include Christine Smart, Ronnie R. Brown,
Laisha Resnau, and Erin Noteboom.
* for those of you who don’t know about poet Milton Acorn and Ted Plantos go to the CPA website for info. Jeff Seffinga was past VP for the CPA. Also James Deahl, who works with Jeff on this award, is a CPA cofounder…ciao Donna
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Hi, My name is Anthony Young and I live in Toronto. I posted something of interest to your members. I hope you don’t mind. I am sure they will appreciate you giving them the heads up to the free events we have coming up this year.Even though these events are free they need to register. This is due to the prestige and popularity of our events.
Also it will great if you can post a link on your site. I will do the same with mine, so we can collaborate with each other. We can also coordinate to bring some of our events to your city if you can get enough people to hist it. I will help you out.
This is what I posted on your site. Feel free to make changes.
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We are bringing Richard Vogler and Gordy Hoffman for free lectures to Toronto.
We have a free lecture soon at Ryerson University with Chris Thomas “The 99 Minute Film Directing School”.
Also free admission to members of this group to our “Live!Ammunition! Pitching Panel and Competition in April.
Please notify all your members.
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To register for free and be notify of these free events send an e-mail with your name to membership@raindancecanada
or visit us on line at www.raindancecanada.com
Let me know if you are interested. I also added you as a friend
Cheers
Anthony Young
raindancecanada.com
416-961-6627
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Hello,
I’d like to get some information out to your members about the 2008 Booming Ground poetry mentors:
“Booming Ground, Western Canada’s pre-eminent online writing studio offers innovative, professional creative writing mentorships in a variety of genres for writers of all levels. We are currently accepting applications for mentorships in poetry with Evelyn Lau and Robert Hilles. Details are available on our website at: www.boomingground.com or by contacting us directly at: apply@boomingground.com“
Please post as you see fit.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Nancy Lee
Director
Booming Ground Online Writing Studio
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Only a Few Weeks Left in the Robert Kroetsch Award Call
The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry is January 31st.
http://snarebooks.wordpress.com/the-robert-kroetsch-award-for-innovative-poetry/
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