A very literary week is coming up for CreComm Section 2. Lauren Parsons will hear part of her early oeuvre come to life at the reading/launch of Scirocco/MAP [Manitoba Association of Playwrights] Manitoba High School Playwriting Competition anthology I Was a Teenage Playwright on Monday night at McNally Robinson. On…
Read MoreIt turns out that the narrator of Richard Brautigan's prescient 1968 masterpiece In Watermelon Sugar was Steve Jobs. To whit: iDEATH It was about dark when I arrived at iDEATH. The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one.…
Read MorePrairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers present: Bliss Carman Poetry Award - Judge: Sylvia Legris Short Fiction - Judge: Marilyn Bowering Creative Non-Fiction - Judge: Lawrence Scanlan. $6,000 in prizes. 1st prize in each category $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250. Deadline: Postmarked November 30, 2011. Entry fee…
Read MoreAt the risk of writing a completely unoriginal blog post, I feel the need to vent about The Apple Store. Three times, my friends, I have now gone to Polo Park to buy an Apple accessory I required, and found that they did not have it in stock. Nothing too…
Read MoreThis year's Thin Air events at Red River College feature a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker--by which I mean a fiction writer, a non-fiction writer, and a poet, but multi-talented all. I probably shouldn't have called anyone a butcher. Visit www.thinairwinnipeg.ca for the complete festival program. All are…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: October 31st for the January - May 2012 Program The Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program pairs emerging writers with established, professional writers to work together one-on-one for a five month period. During the program, the emerging writer is encouraged to utilize the expertise of the professional writer in the…
Read MorePlease post and circulate. Call for Papers: Symposium on Manitoba Writing organized by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild to be held at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba May 10-12, 2012 See attached for full information. In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild (MWG), you are invited to…
Read MoreOkay, summer isn't quite waning yet. But I feel work beckoning from the other end. Instead of actually working, I decided to "work" on my web presence, such as it is; this after a summer of largely avoiding on-linedom. The following has been accomplished: updated long-neglected Flickr stream created Tumblr…
Read MoreYes, I know I've been neglectful. For the month of May, I'll be poem-blogging again over at http://maydaypoems.blogspot.com/, courtesy the wonderful Ariel Gordon. First poem tomorrow... I hope.
Read MoreSix old photographs of people I don't know. When I was researching the photographs for my book Types of Canadian Women, I was in the habit of buying old photos and photo albums at antique shops. These six are my picks from a 1930s batch of mostly seaside holiday shots:…
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