I’ve just started a website to help playwrights connect with producers and directors so that they can see their work reach the stage with greater ease. I believe that there could be a number of people interested in this site in your Facebook group. I’d appreciate if you would consider adding The Playwright Site at http://www.theplaywrightsite.com to the list of all the great resources on your group’s page.
All the best,
David Zoltan
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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 best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest and most prestigious literary awards.
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2007 Shortlist includes poems from the exceptional books shortlisted by jurors John Burnside, Charles Simic, and Karen Solie for this year’s two $50,000 awards.
The poems in the 2007 anthology are selected and introduced by Solie, the Canadian member of the jury. Royalties from the sales of the anthologies are donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.
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“Princess Nut” CD launch celebration!
. . . and AURAL Heather’s Vancouver debut
Media Club, 695 Cambie Street, Vancouver
Thursday, May 29
8 PM
Please join us for an evening of stellar music and spoken word with special guests Kate Newman, Susan Cormier, Beth Southwell and her band, Tony Bardach, Kedrick James and emcee Kyle Hawke.
AURAL Heather is Heather Haley, Roderick Shoolbraid and ³a unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word.² Shoolbraid is a dazzling guitarist, composer, sound designer and DJ. Old school and proud of it, Haley is a maverick poet, singer, author and media artist often found pushing boundaries and always on the vanguard. ³A Canadian national treasure,² Haley started writing verse in high school influenced by poets like bp Nichol, ee cummings and Susan Musgrave.
Her life as a bona fide artist began on the stage of the infamous Smilin¹ Buddha fronting the all-girl punk band the Zellots. She was a member of the 45s with Randy Rampage and Brad Kent of DOA and the Avengers. Later she formed HHZ‹Heather Haley & the Zellots‹praised by LA Weekly music critic Craig Lee as one of the city’s ³Ten Great Bands.”
Haley is a gutsy and compelling performer who enjoyed a stint as an official BC Transit busker and has appeared at the Burning Word Festival, the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Crush Champagne Lounge, the Lamplighter Pub, Rime, Thundering Word Heard, the Art Bar in Toronto, Words & Music in Montreal, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, Red Sky Poetry Theatre in Seattle, Shakespeare & Sons in Prague, the Roar Lit Crawl with Edmonton¹s Raving Poets band and on CBC and Book Television.
In 2004, she teamed up with Shoolbraid to produce a series of live shows and their first cd, “Surfing Season.” As Haley returns to her roots, their sound has evolved into the spoken word songs of AURAL Heather. There is nothing precious or flowery about the poetry on ³Princess Nut.² It rocks, in more ways than one!
Tix ten $ available at Zulu Records and the door
Praise for Surfing Season: ³Beautiful. A credit to the genre.²-Ian Ferrier, Wired on Words ³Great job! An auspicious disc. One of the best albums of its kind.² Kurt Heintz, e-poets ³Important work.²Poseybeat
Further information on AURAL Heather and Heather Haley is available through her website, http://www.heatherhaley.com as well as four tracks from “Princess Nut.”
Heather Haley POET SINGER AUTHOR MEDIA ARTIST
€ ONLINE: http://www.heatherhaley.com
€ ON PAPER: “Sideways” and the forthcoming “Window Seat”
€ ON DISC: “Princess Nut “ by AURAL Heather on RPW Records, launch May 29 @ the Media Club
€ ON SCREEN: videopoems “Dying for the Pleasure “and “Purple Lipstick“
€ ON STAGE: “Unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word.”-ZULA Presents
D. Hooijer is the second woman to win the award for her short story collection.
7 May 2008
THE NETHERLANDS – The 2008 Libris Literature Prize has been awarded to the writer D. Hooijer for her short story collection The Daily Grind is a Predator. This is the first time the prize, worth EUR 50,000, has been awarded for a short story collection, and only the second time it has been won by a woman – in 1994 it was won by Frida Vogels.
Up until now, D. Hooijer has been a relatively unknown writer.
She debuted in 2001 with another collection of short stories Jar and Blade. Her new collection was chosen from a shortlist of six taken from a long list of 171 works of “original Dutch prose” published in 2007.
On hearing she had won, she was taken aback. “I thought it was wonderful just to be nominated,” she said on receiving the award. “To be among the final six was unbelievable.”
D. Hooijer is a pseudonym for writer Kitty Ruys. Her distinctive writing style is characterised by short, disjointed sentences, and a disregard for literary convention.
The jury commented that, “In her stories she has managed to strike a delicate balance between story and narrative style, between content and form. Hooijer succeeds in making her stories surprising, moving and humorous.”
Although she won the prize as an outsider and this is only her third publication as a prose writer, she has written poetry all her life.
Her poetry is published under the name Milly Wiers. “I was always rather a rejected poet,” she commented in a television interview. “It’s very hard to get poetry published, but I didn’t want to stop. I think poetry is wonderful. But after about 30 years, I eventually gave up. One rainy Sunday in summer, I started writing short stories. And it was tough. Stories are difficult too.”
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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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