***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
For information or interview requests, contact:
Justyn Perry, Marketing Manager
Tel: 403-254-0160
Email: justyn@hadespublications.com

Clan of the Dung Sniffers Available April 15

Calgary, AB – April 15, 2008 - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy announces Clan of the Dung Sniffers, by Lee Danielle Hubbard released to major retail bookstores such as Chapters, Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon.com, and directly from the publisher: www.edgewebsite.com.

“My life is a grand, multicoloured web of events and interests. The upcoming publication of my first novel constitutes the brightest strands of the web.” Taking her art and history studies at the University of Victoria with fervour, author Lee Danielle rises with the sun every day, takes an hour-long run or swim and gets right down to writing while most people are just getting their morning coffee.

Hubbard hasn’t taken her literature exploits with any less passion, with poetry appearing in many literary magazines, including Event and the Claremont Review.

From the back of the book:

“Wounds of the body heal swiftly in comparison to those of the mind.”

In a beehive of rebellion and misinterpretation eight young men are thrown together by an unlikely accident.

To survive, they move quickly to form a secret brotherhood, dubbed by one of the more cynical members as the Clan of the Dung-Sniffers.

Their sole mission: repair and return the damaged Radiance to its former glory.

But before they can do this they must survive unexpected challenges, brutal lies and the self-doubts that call into question everything they’ve come to know and expect from their society.

If they do not move quickly, their own beehive of prejudice and fear will devour them all.

Author Tour Dates:
May 2, at 7:30pm, Black Stilt Coffee House, Victoria, BC
May 3, at 1:00pm, The Sentry Box, Calgary, AB
May 6, at 5:30pm, McNally Robinson, Stephen Avenue, Calgary, AB
May 16-19, KeyCon 25, CANVENTION 28, Winnipeg, MB
May 23, at 1:00pm, Indigo Park Royal, 900 Park Royal S. West Vancouver, BC
May 24, at 1:00pm, Chapters, Metrotown Eaton Center, Burnaby, BC
May 24, Black Bond Books. Vancouver, BC

Clan of the Dung Sniffers: ISBN-13: 978-1-894063-05-0, Price: $19.95 US, Pages: 320
http://www.edgewebsite.com
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Sincerely,
Justyn Perry, Marketing Manager
(www.edgewebsite.com)
Box 1714, Calgary, AB, T2P 2L7, Canada
403-254-0160 (voice) / 403-254-0456 (fax)
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2007 Releases (Spring):
Hydrogen Steel by K. A. Bedford (March 2007)
i-Robot Poetry by Jason Christie (April 2007)
Tesseracts Ten edited by Edo van Belkom and Robert Charles Wilson (May 2007)
Righteous Anger by Lynda Williams (June 2007)
Operation Immortal Servitude (Book 1) by Tony Ruggiero (February 2007)
Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy, The: Volume 3 - The Author’s Grimoire
edited by Valerie Griswold-Ford & Lai Zhao
Too Many Princes by Deby Fredericks
Small Magics by Erik Buchanan
Alien Revelation by Tony Ruggiero

2007 Releases (Fall):
As Fate Decrees by Denysé Bridger (August 2007)
Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction, The:
Volume 1 - First Contact edited by Dave A. Law and Darin Park September 2007)
Longevity Thesis by Jennifer Rahn (September 2007)
Keeper’s Child by Leslie Davis (October 2007)
Darkness of the God by Amber Hayward (October 2007)
Virtual Evil (Time Rovers Book Two) by Jana Oliver (October 2007)
Tesseracts Eleven edited by Cory Doctorow & Holly Phillips (November 2007)
Darwin’s Paradox by Nina Munteanu (November 2007)

2008 Releases (Spring):
JEMMA 7729 by Phoebe Wray (February 200
Sword Master by Selina Rosen (February 200
Lachli by Margaret Bonham (March 200
Clan of the Dung-Sniffers by Lee Danielle Hubbard (April 200
Operation Immortal Servitude: Save the Innocent (Book 2) by Tony Ruggiero (April 200
The Hounds of Ash and other Tales of Fool Wolf by Greg Keyes (May 200
Firestorm of Dragons edited by Michelle Acker and Kirk Dougal (May 200

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

16 April, 2008

Spring Sizzles with Atlantic Book Festival 2008

Twenty-five books.  Four provinces.  One Festival.  May 6 to 15, 2008!

The shortlists have been announced.  The Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize has increased to $15,000.  The Book Festival website is a-shimmer with readings, signings, workshops and the complete details of the nominated authors and books for Atlantic Book Festival 2008.  Take a magical mystery murder tour of Halifax with Steven Laffoley…a workshop with imaginary characters with Sheree Fitch…a Gala Soirée at FRED in Halifax with readings and interviews …celebrations in Saint John, St. John’s, Sydney, Truro, Pugwash, Charlottetown …join us for the not-to-be-missed Atlantic Book Awards Ceremony on Monday 12 May, 4 pm at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth.

Aided and abetted by the creative team at Halifax Public Libraries, readers throughout Atlantic Canada can wager on the winning books. Match your wits with the judges. A Glorious slection of shortlisted titles will be awarded to two individuals who choose the prize-winning authors.  Go to halifaxpubliclibraries.ca to place your bet!

This year’s nominees are:

Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize

Don Hannah, Ragged Islands, Knopf Canada

Bernice Morgan, Cloud of Bone, Knopf Canada

David Adams Richards, The Lost Highway, Doubleday Canada

Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-fiction

Marq de Villiers, Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose,

Thomas Allen Publishers

Stewart Donovan, The Forgotten World of RJ MacSween: A Life, Cape Breton University Press

Steven Laffoley, Hunting Halifax: In Search of History, Mystery and Murder, Pottersfield Press

Atlantic Poetry Prize

Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged, Brick Books

George Murray, The Rush to Here, Nightwood Editions

Anne Simpson, Quick, McClelland & Stewart

Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction

Beatrice MacNeil, Where White Horses Gallop, Key Porter Books

Carol Bruneau, Glass Voices, Cormorant Books

David Doucette, North of Smokey, Cape Breton University Press

Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction

A. J. B. Johnston, Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory and the Despair, Cape Breton University Press

Stewart Donovan, The Forgotten World of R. J. MacSween: A Life, Cape Breton University Press

Marq de Villiers, Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose, Thomas Allen Publishers

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

Bob Mersereau, The Top100 Canadian Albums, Goose Lane Editions

Stephanie Domet, Homing: the whole story (from the inside out), Invisible Publishing

Fred Armstrong, Happiness of Fish, Jesperson Publishing

Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

Eric Orchard, A Forest For Christmas (Michael Harris, author), Nimbus Publishing

Richard Rudnicki, Gracie, The Public Gardens Duck (Judith Meyrick, author), Nimbus Publishing

Nancy Keating, A Puppy Story (Susan Pynn, author), Tuckamore Books

Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Published Book Award

Beaverbrook - A Shattered Legacy, by Jacques Poitras, Goose Lane Editions

Miller Brittain: When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears, by Tom Smart, Goose Lane Editions

Gracie, The Public Gardens Duck, by Judith Meyrick; illustrated by Richard Rudnicki, Nimbus Publishing

Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award

Steven Laffoley, Hunting Halifax: In Search of History, Mystery and Murder, Pottersfield Press

Jacques Poitras, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, Goose Lane Editions

Harry Sawler, Twenty-first Century Irvings, Nimbus Publishing

Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature

Alice Walsh, A Sky Black with Crows, Red Deer Press

K.V. Johansen, Nightwalker: The Warlocks of Talverdin, Orca

Valerie Sherrard, Speechless, Dundurn Group

Schedule of Events

Atlantic Book Festival 2008 (dates and times are subject to change.  Visit www.writers.ns.ca/bookfest08 for up-to-the-minute details, changes and additions)

Tuesday May 6

10 am   PRESENTATION – Richard Rudnicki, illustrator, with Gracie, the Public Gardens Duck at Cole Harbour Library

Wednesday May 7

10 am   PRESENTATION – Eric Orchard, illustrator, with A Forest for Christmas at Bedford Library, Bedford

7 pm     READING – Carol Bruneau with Glass Voices at Alderney Library, Dartmouth

7 pm     LAUNCH – Steve Vernon with Wicked Woods at Fredericton Public Library, 12 Carleton Street, Fredericton

7 pm     LAUNCH – Ken Smith with History of Disaster at Bathurst Book Gallery, 145 Main Street, Bathurst

Thursday May 8

Noon    READING & DISCUSSION – Stephanie Domet with Homing and Robbie MacGregor, publisher Invisible Books.  First books – writing them, publishing them at Spring Garden Road Library, Halifax

7 pm     Harvey Sawlor with Twenty-first Century Irvings at Keshen-Goodman Library, Halifax

7 pm     READING – Cape Breton celebrates Atlantic Book Festival at McConnell Memorial Library, 50 Falmouth Street with Marq de Villiers, Beatrice MacNeil & Susan Zettell

7pm      LAUNCH – Shauntay Grant and illustrator Susan Tooke with Up Home at Nelson Whynder School, 979 North Preston Road

Friday May 9

Am       SIGNING – Marq de Villiers at Cole’s, Sydney

7 pm     READING – Don Domanski, George Murray, Anne Simpson, Herménégilde Chiasson, Study Lounge-Ward Chipman Building-UNBSJ, Saint John, NB

7 pm     READING – Marq de Villiers with Witch in the Wind at Thomas More Church Hall, Pugwash

Saturday May 10

11 to 3  Shorts! – a day of exploration and writing workshops with Sheree Fitch, Stephens Gerrard Malone, Shandi Mitchell and Philip Moscovitch at WFNS

11:30 – 12:30    SIGNING – David Adams Richards at Frog Hollow Books, Halifax

2 pm     WORKSHOP – David Adams Richards at Spring Garden Road Library, Halifax, sponsored by the Writers’ Trust of Canada

7 pm     READING – Don Domanski and George Murray, Charlottetown, PE with PEI Writers’ Guild

7 pm     GALA BOOKFEST READING AT FRED, 2606 Agricola, Halifax with David Adams Richards, Stephanie Domet, Steven Laffoley, Stewart Donovan, moderated by Sue Goyette

Sunday, May 11

12 – 2   SIGNING – David Adams Richards at Chapters, Dartmouth

2 pm     Magical Mystery Murder Tour with Steven Laffoley, Hunting Halifax

3 – 5     SIGNING – David Adams Richards at Chapters, Halifax

Monday, May 12

9 – 2     Halifax Grammar School hosts K.V. Johansen, Alice Walsh and Lesley Choyce

9 am     Cobequid Consolidated Elementary in Old Barns (near Truro) hosts illustrators Nancy Keating, Eric Orchard and Richard Rucnicki

4 – 6     Atlantic Book Awards Ceremony at Alderney Theatre, Dartmouth

Tuesday, May 13

10 am   READING – K.V. Johansen with Nightwalker at Alderney Library, Dartmouth

2 pm     READING – Don Hannah with Ragged Islands at Alderney Library, Dartmouth

7 pm     READING – Bernice Morgan with Cloud of Bone at Keshen-Goodman Library, Halifax

Thursday, May 15

7 pm     READING – Stephanie Domet with Homing at Keshen-Goodman Library, Dartmouth

7 pm     LAUNCH – Lawrence Coady with The Lost Canoe at Downhome Shoppe & Gallery, 303 Water Street, St. John’s, NL

7 pm     READING – Marq de Villiers, Bernice Morgan, George Murray at The Studio, 272 Water Street, St. John’s, NL hosted by Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador

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For more information, call 423-8116 or visit www.writers.ns.ca/bookfest08

Dear LPG Canada group members:

The Literary Press Group of Canada announces its national reading campaign, FIERY FIRST FICTION, in the month of May 2008.

Fiery First Fiction features 14 of the season’s hot new first-fiction titles from literary presses across Canada. The idea came about from the desire to support independent publishers who often take great risks by believing in and signing on new literary voices in a small industry burgeoning with bestselling books from south of the border.

The selected short story and long fiction titles feature a roster of new talent from various backgrounds, including magazine editors Nathan Whitlock, Arjun Basu, and Naomi K. Lewis; playwright Claudia Dey; university professors and poets Richard Lemm and Lesley Belleau; creative writing program graduates Shari Lapeña and Nila Gupta; screenwriter Jason Brink; and illustrator Jim Westergard.

IT’S A WIN-WIN SITUATION!
Look for readings in your cities: Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, North Bay, and Vancouver. Walk into any participating independent bookstore (see our web site for locations), buy a Fiery First Fiction book, and get a beautiful limited edition FFF canvas bag FREE. Best of all, participate in the Open Book Toronto month-long May contest, and win a set of FFF books + bag each week!

Join us at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fiery-First-Fiction/11756151503

where you can get the latest updates on events for May.

Best,
Kulsum
Publicist, The Literary Press Group of Canada
Website: http://fieryfirstfiction.blogspot.com

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

List of Mass Graves at Residential Schools to be Issued this Thursday, April 10

Monday, April 7, 2008 – 12:30 pm, PST

Vancouver:

A comprehensive list of mass graves of children at dozens of former Indian Residential Schools across Canada will be released to the media and the public this Thursday, April 10 at 12 noon at a special ceremony at the Indian Affairs office at 1138 Melville street in downtown Vancouver.

At the same event, an independent, non-governmental inquiry into crimes in Indian residential schools will be formally launched by aboriginal elders, including Squamish Hereditary Chief Kiapilano and Chief Red Jacket.

The event is sponsored by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD).

PS. By Tony

Very proud of this man Kevin Annett.. in the darkest hours when the Church and State came after him and used all methods to silence him and when almost everybody turned his back on him… he stood his ground.
I can hear him whispering back then “If I perish I perish”. Now it’s easy for him and I know why… once you lose everything and you have nothing more to lose, fear loses its power over you… you know from there on that even if you perish you have won.

I remember once that the “men in black” asked me to withdraw my documentary. I replied “now you must kill me because there is no other way to stop me”. From there on it was easy, very easy… they can kill children and they can kill the messengers BUT THEY CANNOT KILL THE TRUTH!

Chomsky said he deserves a Nobel Prize… I believe to call him Eagle Strong Voice is the greatest reward he can ever receive as he became rightfully a father not only to the Native People but also to all of us that seek righteousness in all the battlefields in the world that truth is trembled upon.

With these few words I express my deep and unconditional support and friendship to my brother Eagle Strong Voice and promise to support with all my heart all his efforts to bring about awareness concerning the Residential Schools and the over 50.000 Native children that died there. We must never forget that it was from the shores of Europe that the settlers first arrived in the Americas, and when we say White Americans we mean our European ancestors. I hope Europe will soon lift her eyes towards the truth she is neglecting.

Yours
Svnoyi Wohali (Night Eagle)

For more information:
FRD spokesperson Rev. Kevin Annett
pager: 1-888-265-1007
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

Good Day:

I’m producing a series of documentaries for CBC Radio. One of our
programs is about Bruce Cockburn and I would like to get in touch with
one of his early mentors, poet, William Hawkins of Ottawa. Do you have
any contact information or know how I can get in touch with him? We’re
interested in an interview in the near future.

Thanks for your time.

John Corcelli
Producer, Inside The Music
CBC Radio
Toronto

416-205-8861

give this radio interview a listen
http://www.kootenaycoopradio.com/writers/

George Bowering on the Writers’ Show on Kootenay Co-op Radio
mention of small presses, including pooka press ( & above/ ground press, & a few others too) has some great jazz in the program also

Open Call for Submissions Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway

A bookwork published by Studio Bibliothèque

Submission Deadline: 29 Mar 2008 Extended to 15 Apr 2008!

Concept

Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway is a bookwork that explores the preoccupations of artists between, besides and beyond their main artistic practices. It is conceived and will be edited by artists Cornelia Erdmann and Michael Lee Hong Hwee, and will be published by Studio Bibliothèque in Jul 2008 (tbc) at a venue in Hong Kong (tbc), in conjunction with Hong Kong Book Fair during 23 – 29 Jul 2008.

By definition, a ‘preoccupation’ is an idea, thing, person, activity or event on which a person expends extended time and energy. For this proposed publication, preoccupation may also be a full-time or part-time employment, a hobby, a collection or any other particular area of interest. Obviously, everything that an artist does, feels and thinks about is interrelated to the extent that any attempt to keep life and art separate, including to isolate things artists do in and outside art, is good only for analysis, if not futile or rhetorical. But the key aim here is for artists to select for self-analysis a single preoccupation that he or she will/must engage in anyway – i.e., using whatever method, in any case or event, no matter what, in spite of….

The key question for the artist to ponder is: What drives or preoccupies you other than art?

The project is aimed at uncovering the range and roles of different ‘third terms’ that mediate between an artist and his or her art practice, particularly in ways that the terms interrelate, compliment or contest one another. This project is expected to offer insights into various relationships pertaining to the creative life: art / life, work / leisure, publicized practice / private preoccupations, to name a few. The key significance of this compilation is the culmination of an archive of autobiographical fragments that will engage existing discourses on identity politics, relational aesthetics, creative processes and reception studies.

Methodology

The collection of artists’ contributions is through a combination of open call and invitation. Each included contribution will be showcased on a spread, one page for text writeup and the other for image, both relating to the preoccupation.

The copyright of text and image in each included contribution will be retained by individual contributors.

The editors reserve the right to select contributions to compose a thematically diverse compilation.

The publisher regrets that no honorarium could be offered as all fund that are in the process of being sought will be channelled to the printing cost. However, each contributor will receive two copies of the publication when it is published.

Submission

Submission involves duly filling up the attached Submission Form (on page 3) and emailing it with required attachments to studiobibliotheque@gmail.com by 29 Mar 2008 Extended to 15 Apr 2008!

Contact information

C: Michael Lee Hong Hwee or Cornelia Erdmann

T: (+852) 9249 7199

E: studiobibliotheque@gmail.com mail@corneliaerdmann.de

W: http://www.studiobibliotheque.blogspot.com

A: #1812 Blk B Wah Luen Ind Ctr, 15-21 Wong Chuk Yeung St, Fo Tan, NT, HK

About the editors

Cornelia Erdmann was born and brought up in Frankfurt, Germany. She received a degree in architecture in 2002 and a MFA in Public Art in 2005 from Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Since 2002 Cornelia Erdmann is intensely involved in making art. In 2003 Cornelia Erdmann is a lecturer for «Mediatecture» at the Department of Architecture of the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. At the same time she also teaches workshops at Bauhaus-University Weimar, and continues her work as a media-artist. In August 2006 Cornelia moves to Hong Kong. In her projects she is mainly interested in the interaction of space and society, scrutinising aspects of urbanity and life style – always bearing a small smile along the way. <www.corneliaerdmann.de>

Michael Lee Hong-Hwee is a Singapore-born artist currently based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Concerned with the relation between desire and space, he explores different forms and media, especially photographic installation, model-making, book-making, video, writing and curating. He was the recipient of Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) 2005, conferred by National Arts Council, Singapore. <www.michael.farm.sg>

About Things Artists Do series

Things Artists Do is an exhibition / publication series addressing the gap amidst the onslaught of survey art projects focusing on theme or art form, by examining instead the action and being of artists. So far, two installments in the series have been completed (Autobiobliophiles: Artists who make or use books, in May/June 2007; and Eniminiminimos: Artists who make things small, Jan 2008, both held at Studio Bibliothèque) and one in the forthcoming (Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas: Artists respond to HKSZBUA, co-organised with and held at Artist Commune, Mar 2008).

About Studio Bibliothèque

Studio Bibliothèque facilitates experiments in making, writing, curating and learning. It is the workspace of artist Michael Lee Hong Hwee. The studio has been featured in the mass media including iSh, Sunday Morning Post, Ming Pao Daily, Ming Pao Weekly, Take Me Home and Weekend Weekly. <studiobibliotheque.blogspot.com>

About Hong Kong Book Fair

The Hong Kong Book Fair is a fair organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council held usually in July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, selling and exhibiting books, printed matter, stationery, printing, compact discs and othe rmultimedia publishing. <hkbookfair.tdctrade.com>

Submission Form

Artist

Preoccupation

Name (English / Chinese):

Writeup (max. 500 words, or fill in filename):

Tel:

Email:

Url:

Mailing Address:

Biography (max. 200 words, or fill in filename):

Curriculum Vitae (or fill in filename):

Image (hi-res, 300dpi, no less than 1Mb; please fill in filename):

Submission involves duly filling up this Submission Form and emailing it with required attachments to studiobibliotheque@gmail.com mail@corneliaerdmann.de by 29 Mar 2008 Extended to 15 Apr 2008!

CALL FOR WRITERS AND INTERVIEWERS (Toronto ePost)

The Emerging Arts Professional Network is looking for writers and podcasters to contribute to site and interview senior arts professionals in your community.

Writers send us a proposal, finished pieces or contribute something new on any topic that relates to your career, arts management, well run arts orgs, marketing, whatever! (750 words or less)

Want to meet established members of the arts community and interview them for our Mentor of the Month Podcast? Contact us if you’re interested or have someone specific you’d like to interview and we’ll set you up with what you need to make this happen.

We welcome submissions from all arts professionals whether you are a seasoned or first time writer, emerging or established arts professional. If you have an opinion or ideas to share, we want to hear from you!

Submissions and information contact us at info@eapnetwork.ca.
Include your name, city, occupation, and email address.

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