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Gerard Beirne
January 8, 2014 3:02 PM
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Atlantic Canada Studies Seminar Series, UNB Fredericton, presents Ross Leckie with "The Fiddlehead, Its Beginnings, and the Founding of a New Poetic", Tilley 028, 7 pm, 11 Feb 2014. A Faculty of Arts collaboration. Sponsored by Atlantic Canada Studies Centre CRC in Atlantic Canada Studies, Office of the Dean of Arts, and Office of the VP Research. This is an open, interdisciplinary seminar to promote research and discussion on Atlantic Canada. Refreshments will be served. Participation is welcome on an individual, occasional or continuing basis. For more information, please contact the 2013–14 co-chairs: D
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Gerard Beirne
January 7, 2014 5:49 PM
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Then I got older and it became important to find role models--people living in Canada who were writers and who I maybe had something in common with. So other Maritimers like David Adams Richards and Alden Nowlan, then contemporary women writers like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Eventually, I started meeting writers who were encouraging and inspiring to me like Bill Gaston, Jan Zwicky and Don McKay who were all in Fredericton around the same time I was, fortunately for me.
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January 3, 2014 10:52 AM
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Canadian author, Riel Nason, received a stack of rejection letters before she went on to win the Commonwealth Book Prize. A stack of rejection letters for a short-story collection might have tempted a less determined writer to abandon her authorial dreams. But failing to sell her first book merely spurred New Brunswick novelistRiel Nason to get to work on a novel.
"I had a major agent representing me," she recalls. "So I figured I'd better get something else written."
Her dream
That "something else" became her award-winning novel The Town That Drowned (Goose Lane Editions, 2011), about a New Brunswick town that got flooded during the construction of the Mactaquac Dam in the late 1
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Gerard Beirne
December 27, 2013 4:44 PM
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2013 review kitten puppy cute slipper Corey Redekop CanLit Literature Margaret Atwood
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Gerard Beirne
December 11, 2013 9:22 PM
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SACKVILLE, N.B. – The Town of Sackville has announced the forthcoming appointment of Marilyn Lerch as Sackville’s poet laureate, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, with her first official appearance at the Mayor’s New Year’s levee at the Sackville Town Hall.
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Gerard Beirne
December 9, 2013 6:45 PM
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Gerard Beirne
December 9, 2013 10:56 AM
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Sure, it's been The Year of the Short Story, but Canada's outpouring of poetry's as bright as ever too. From what's shown up in Salty Ink's mailbox, it's safe
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Gerard Beirne
December 8, 2013 5:04 PM
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It has to be a Canadian record that -- since the inception of The Giller Prize -- Wayne Johnston's novels have always been nominated for the award. His latest
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Gerard Beirne
December 6, 2013 4:48 PM
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Welcome back to “On Beauty,” a series of interviews with poets about their relations to beauty. For an introduction to the project, see poets on beauty. This month I invited Shane Rhodes to think ...
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Gerard Beirne
December 6, 2013 4:27 PM
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It's the last week of classes here at UC. I can read the strain on my students' faces. I, personally, am not at all stressed. The above is what it looks like under my desk presently. What in Aug...
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Gerard Beirne
December 5, 2013 7:40 PM
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RM Vaughan is a Canadian Poet who is from St. John New Brunswick. He was born in the year 1965. He has his Masters of Arts in English at Univeristy of New Brunswick. He now lives and works in Toronto Ontario, he has written many poetry books and chapbooks of his own such as A Selection of Dazzling Scarvesand 96 Tears (In My jeans). He has also been included in many anthologies both nationally and internationally. He has been nominated for the National Magazine Award, the William Kilbourne Award, and the ReLit Award (as the author bio of his new book Compared to Hitler: Selected Essays says: always the bridesmaid).
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December 5, 2013 7:37 PM
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December 5, 2013 7:23 PM
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Hailing from New Brunswick, Sheree Fitch always spent her childhood summers in Nova Scotia, where her father was from. So she knew she would always make Nova Scotia her home, and that she did, nestled in the small community of River John.
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Gerard Beirne
January 7, 2014 6:43 PM
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Published by Joe Blades' Broken Jaw Press, From Shore to Shoormal is a collection of poems written by Acadian poet, Donna Allard, who lives in New Brunswick, and Shetland Island poet, Nat Hall. I have long had a soft spot ...
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January 7, 2014 5:16 PM
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December 30, 2013 12:21 PM
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December 20, 2013 6:42 PM
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Back in the spring it seemed.....
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December 10, 2013 7:55 PM
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Douglas Glover is UNB’s Writer-in-Residence for 2013-14 and present a fiction writers’ workshop on March 20, 2014 on the Saint John campus. For details and to register please contact msmith@unb.ca or 654-3753.
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December 9, 2013 11:03 AM
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December 9, 2013 10:12 AM
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The town that drowned Riel NasonA memorable novel from a Canadian author that’s told from the perspective of a teenage girl in a small town that is going to be flooded for a hydroelectric dam. It’s based on a true event from the late 1960s. The effect on the girl, her family and the townspeople makes for a likeable and touching novel with an appeal for YA readers as well.
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December 7, 2013 11:34 AM
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December 6, 2013 4:32 PM
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By Corey Redekop. Here's the question: should I write the way I do, or the way I want to? What I mean is; when it comes to writing, I have a unique style. Every writer does. From the moment you learn your ABCs, you've begun ...
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December 6, 2013 4:25 PM
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Now Ross Leckie is the editor; his office in the English Department at the University of New Brunswick is just down that hall from mine. Mark Anthony Jarman and Gerard Beirne are the fiction editors; the summer fiction issue ...
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Gerard Beirne
December 5, 2013 7:38 PM
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Stalin’s Carnival, Steven Heighton. Palimpsest Press, 2013. Fireship: Early Poems 1964 – 1991. Peter Sanger. Gaspereau Press, 2013. by Shane Neilson The re-issue of a debut book of poetry is an un...
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Gerard Beirne
December 5, 2013 7:33 PM
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Set in the picturesque Acadian fishing village of Pointe-du-Chêne, New Brunswick, Stuck is an emotional journey about redefining what’s important in life and staying true to yourself.
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