I didn’t post last weekend while I was at the CCWWP founding conference, though anyone who follows me on Twitter cannot have failed to notice my incessant tweeting about it. Many jokes were made about the CCWWP needing to be on the back of a Cold War–era hockey jersey. It…
Read MoreAt the Thin Air event I attended at the University of Winnipeg, poet-luminaries Sina Queryas and George Murray talked about creating on-line communities to a professor-dotted room while a group of students waited outside for the panel to finish so they could come in and read from their own work.…
Read MoreMore on these events after the fact, but for now, hie thee to THIN AIR, and start with its Campus Program at Red River College. The full festival schedule is here. --- Red River College is proud to be part of the campus program of Thin Air: The Winnipeg International…
Read MoreThis past week I took a fairly enjoyable class in "Instructional Methods" along with 19 other instructors, mostly from Red River College. We spent most of the week listening to each other teach. We were a class of guinea pigs, testing out our colleagues' lessons. I now know only a…
Read MoreAudio content at Aqua Books you should check out. This page has several Red River creative writing connections--recordings of readings by last year's first-year students in Sally Ito's class, by the students from last year's writing retreat, and even one by me back in December.
Read MoreStudents! If anyone is thinking about becoming a Manitoba Writers Guild member anyway--and I highly recommend it--here's your chance to get a great workshop with the esteemed Catherine Hunter into the bargain: Alive & Writing: Lecture by Catherine Hunter + workshop for university & college students Saturday, April 10, 2010…
Read MoreCreComm grad Brenda Hasiuk will be one of the readers at the Anthology Reading Series later this month: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm Aqua Books 274 Garry Street (between Garry and Portage) Brenda Hasiuk has spent the last decade working in communications for a variety of non-profit organizations…
Read MoreFrom the Manitoba Writers' Guild newsletter: Freedom to Read Banned Books Reading Marathon February 27, 10 am - 5 pm, Millennium Library As part of Freedom to Read Week, the Winnipeg Public Library and Manitoba Writers' Guild present a Reading Marathon of challenged and challenging literature. Exercise your freedom to…
Read MoreYes, I've been a bad blogger lately, and being on vacation during Reading Week is a big part of my excuse -- vacation means Home with Baby, and at present baby means No Computer Unless I Want the Keys Torn Off of the Keyboard. Baby also means that going on…
Read MoreFantastic literary event tonight at Aqua books: Absurd Academy, featuring "visual storytellers"--film makers, graphic novelists, and screenwriters: GMB Chomichuk, Susie Moloney (one of our Gemini writers-in-residence), James Rewucki (from Absurd Machine Studios), Mike Sanders. 7 pm at Aqua.
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