The Writers' Collective

AQUA BOOKS LANSDOWNE PRIZE FOR POETRY SERIES: Charlene Diehl with Stacy Doiron and Kerry Ryan

Wednesday, March 9, 7 pm, Aqua Books (274 Garry Street, between Graham and Portage)

The Writers’ Collective partners with Aqua books to present the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series, celebrating the best in Manitoba poetry. The Aqua Lansdowne is Manitoba’s largest poetry prize.
Stacy Doiron is a poet, avid cyclist, kung fu artist, and editor whose poems have been published in Contemporary Verse 2. She recently participated in the Manitoba Writers’ Guild Sheldon Oberman Emerging Writers’ Mentor Program and attended the Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop at St. Francis Xavier University. She currently resides in a radical co-op house in West End Winnipeg and works at a corporate-esque publishing company in Point Douglas.

Kerry Ryan lives and writes in Winnipeg. Her first collection of poetry, The Sleeping Life, was published by The Muses’ Company in 2008 and nominated for the Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry in 2009. She has had poetry published in a number of journals, including Prairie Fire, Grain, Room, CV2 and Carousel. Her second collection, Vs., was released by Anvil Press in fall 2010. Kerry was Aqua Books Writer-in-Residence for September-December 2010.

Charlene Diehl is a writer, educator, critic, teacher and the director of THIN AIR, Winnipeg’s annual literary splash. She has published essays, poetry, non-fiction, reviews, and interviews in journals across Canada, and has to her credit a scholarly book on Fred Wah as well as a collection of poetry,lamentations, and two chapbooks, mm and The Lover’s Handbook. Excerpts from Out of Grief Singing(Signature Editions, 2010), which appeared in Prairie Fire, won a Western Canadian Magazine Gold Award. When she’s not chasing literary language (or her two speed pre-teens), she edits dig! Magazine, Winnipeg’s little-jazz-engine-that-could.