Palabra en el mundo / Word in the world / Parole dans le monde
The Fredericton event, on Thursday, 16 May, 2–4 pm, in Palabra en el mundo / Word in the world / Parole dans le monde, festival internacional de poesía en todas partes (VII edición del 9 al 21 de mayo, 2013) features participating poets, Joe Blades, Carlos Morales, Nela Rio, Eugenia Dietrich, Andrew Scott, and others. Location is the Carleton Street pedway (rain location: River Reading Room, Fredericton Public Library, 12 Carleton Street).
Organized by Nela Rio <nelario@gmail.com>, with the support of Asociación Latina de New Brunswick–“Presencia”, Broken Jaw Press, Capítulo Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía; in association with Proyecto Cultural SUR, Revista Isla Negra, and Festival Internacional de Poesia de la Habana; plus World Poetry Movement supporting peace in Columbia and throughout the world.
Saturday May 25th Launch @4pm. Crossfit Fredericton 659 Queen Street, directly behind the Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Hotel Fredericton, New Brunswick
It's 11:20 p.m., Saturday, May 4, 2013. I'm getting ready to go to bed, hoping to get a good sleep in before tomorrow's big launch event for Abigail Massey at McAdam Station, Volume 2.
To my surprise, I'm a lot more nervous about this launch than I was about the launch of Volume 1 just five months ago. It's odd but the anticipation is much greater this time around.
I am hoping for a good turnout. I'd be happy with 50 people in attendance,
Chocolate River Publishing was established to serve the youth and school library market in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada. We hope to encourage literacy in our youth, provide them with the books they need for their projects, and tell our New Brunswick and Atlantic Canadian story.
Friday, May 10 Venue: Shadow Lawn Inn, 3180 Rothesay Rd. (open to all)
6 – 7 pm Reception with cash bar 7 – 9 pm Member and Local Author Book Launches Featuring, Jerrod Edson, Carmel Vivier, Andrew McAllister, Lisa Dalrymple Marilyn Lerch, Kathy Mac, Donna Allard, Diane Reid, Joanie Duguay, Chuck Bowie, Susan White, Warren Redman.
It’s a goal of many a New Brunswick writer to take home the David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction. This year we had 36 complete and partial book-length manuscripts submitted for the prize, a stunning amount for a relatively small province. In early March two very heavy boxes were sent to the category’s adjudicator, novelist Ian Colford of Halifax, who must’ve wondered what he had agreed to take on. Colford, the author of The Crimes of Hector Tomas (Freehand Press) and Evidence (Porcupine’s Quill), remarked on the overall strength of the submissions.
We are releasing the results of our 2013 Literary Competition this week, one day at a time and twice on Wednesday. Today, the announcement is for the Individual Poem, which was adjudicated by Truro-based poet Chad Norman, author of the forthcoming collection Masstown (Black Moss Press).
We are releasing the results of our 2013 Literary Competition this week, one day at a time and twice on Wednesday. Over the past two weeks judges have been returning their results and remarking upon the overall quality of the entries and how difficult the decisions were. We received 189 submissions over seven categories with submissions split evenly between WFNB members and non members. After 180 submissions last year and 140 the year before, I think it’s safe to say that returning the competition to include NB writers and WFNB members only has been a great decision, and one that’s getting better all the time. Many, many thanks to everyone who entered. Drum roll…
Project Bookmark Canada is a nationally registered charitable organization that puts stories and poems in the exact, physical locations where literary scenes are set.
Sheree Fitch is the author of numerous books for adults and children, including the Canadian children's classics Sleeping Dragons All Around and Mabel Murple. She's a woman who prizes her books and the places she reads them, as well as her writing community. In this video, Sheree's surrounded by writer friends who want you to join them as Page Turners. Get in on the party today, and you could win copies of Sheree's most popular kids' books.
The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to Joan Clark's farewell reading as writer-in-residence. The reading will take place on Wednesday, April 10 at 8pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, University of New Brunswick.
Ross Leckie, editor of The Fiddlehead, will also be reading.
Please join the UNB community as we remember Elizabeth Brewster. A special memorial will be held at 4pm on Wednesday, April 24 in the Alumni Memorial Building, 13 Bailey Drive on the UNB campus in Fredericton. The memorial will be followed by a reception and, for those who wish, a visit to Elizabeth Brewster's gravesite at the Fredericton Forest Hill Cemetary.
Brewster earned a BA in 1946 and was a founding member of The Fiddlehead; she received an honourary doctorate from UNB in 1982. She is the author of over 30 books of poetry, prose, essays, and memoirs. She is a member of the Order of Canada and holder of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. She is a professor emeritus of the University of Saskatchewan
Kathy Mac, currently chair of the English Department at Saint Thomas University, also happens to be a past winner of the Gerald Lampert Award, for her
There are three good reasons to call these neo-reviews: 1. each book reviewed is the first book of poems published by the poet, 2. all the books were published in 2012, and 3. (closest to my heart) this is the first poetry review written by each of the reviewers. In fact, all eighteen were students in my ENGL 3403: Canadian Poetry at St. Thomas University in Fredericton in the winter term of 2013.
The poems are Birthday, Canoeing the St. John River, Dreams, Prayer, Roses and Witness. Sue Sinclair reads from Mortal Arguments. Find out more at http://www...
Welcome to the New Brunswick Author Portal. The portal was developed to promote authors who have a connection to the province of New Brunswick, and to promote New Brunswick literary works available in public libraries throughout the province.
The authors in this portal have contributed to the development of the site by submitting biographies and answers to interview questions. This dynamic author-generated content complements biographies which have been written for several deceased authors.
The portal also provides quick access to the catalogue of the public Libraries' collection, to reader suggestions and resources for readers and for authors.
… a perfume is not the same as a sentence … – David Howes
Don’t tell me that perfume cannot be a sentence, that trees are not language, because to deny this is to deny that hands can be cathedrals, which was proven by Rodin, bronze fingertips timbered...
Well, here I am, starting my second (and last) day in Macedonia. I calculate that by the time I return I will have spent more time standing in queues in aiports than on foreign soil (if one disregards the fact that some of these queues have been on foreign soil), but no matter, I am here.
OK, another day and another prize to announce, this time it’s the Writing for Children award, which was adjudicated by Lisa Dalrymple of Fergus, Ontario, who first came to NB when she placed second in our competition in 2010. Since then Lisa has won the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Writing for Children Award and has gone on the publish her first two books for children, If It’s No Trouble… A Big Polar Bear (Tuckamore Books) and the forthcoming Skink on the Brink (Fitzhenry & Whiteside). We’re thrilled to have Lisa back in NB, too, as she’s one of our featured guests at WordsSpring!
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story (Supported by Vanna Tessier and Guy Tessier)
Kathleen Brown (Calgary) – “Marhawks in Winter,” Filling Station MagazineLynn Coady (Edmonton) – “Dogs in Clothes,” Canadian Notes & QueriesLee Kvern (Okotoks) – “In Search of Lucinda,” Be a Better Writer
In honour of National Poetry Month, Gaspereau Press will be launching its complete slate of spring poetry books at a poetry Tra-La! in Halifax next week. The event will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Friday April 19 at The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street. Five poets will be on hand to read from their new books, all of which are being released by Gaspereau Press:
¶ SUE GOYETTE’s Ocean [$19.95 | 9781554471225]. Halifax poet Sue Goyette’s new collection offers an innovative take on living in a port city, bounded by the substantial fact of the North Atlantic.
¶ PETER SANGER’s Fireship: Early Poems 1965–1991 [$25.95 | 9781554471218]. This collection celebrates the early work of the respected Nova Scotia poet and essayist Peter Sanger, including both unpublished poems and the poems of his books The America Reel and Earth Moth.
¶ JOHN TERPSTRA’s Brilliant Falls [$17.95 | 9781554471232]. Hamilton-based poet John Terepstra’s new collection considers the transitions and juxtapositions of family life, from teenage daughters to aging parents.
¶ HARRY THURSTON & ALLAN COOPER’s The Deer Yard [$17.95 | 9781554471201]. Following in the footsteps of the early Chinese poets Wang Wei and P’ei Ti, this book presents a meditative poetic correspondence which took place between these two Maritime poets in the winter of 2009.
Since 2008, Gaspereau Press has marked National Poetry Month by organizing a poetry Tra-La!, typically holding the event in Toronto or Montreal. This is its first year in Halifax. A poetry Tra-la!, as we’ve defined it, is a public celebration of poetry, usually involving the unveiling of several new works and featuring readings by their authors. This event is free and open to anyone over the age of majority.
You can find more information about these books and authors by visitingwww.gaspereau.com, or by contacting Trina Grant-Adam at Gaspereau Press.
Author and current Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, Merilyn Simonds, will be making two stops in New Brunswick next week. This is a great opportunity hear about the state of copyright laws, eBooks, the Public Lending Right and so much else happening in the changing digital world, as well as share your views and talk with other writers, who often are the coolest people. The two events below are open to all, not just TWUC members, so please drop in. In the case of Moncton, Merilyn’s visit coincides with the next Attic Owl Reading Series event. See below. -
Marita Dachsel recommended The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Sharon McCartney right when our family was in the middle of reading On the Banks of Plum Creek, and so it seemed like an irresistible pick. Because we’ve been so fascinated by the gaps and silences in the Little House books, by what goes on between the lines. What is it to be Caroline Ingalls, we’ve been wondering for a while
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