Sue Sorensen — Book LaunchThursday Oct 13 2011 8:00 pm – Grant Park in Prairie Ink Restaurant, Winnipeg
Launch of A Large Harmonium (Coteau Books) featuring the harmonious keyboard stylings of Glenn Sawatzky.
A Large Harmonium is a sharply comical year-in-the-gloriouslyunruly-life story. We follow Janey as she negotiates motherhood, her academic career, frightful in-laws, and which literary hero her husband Hector most resembles. Along the way, she relies on Hector, boy-wonder babysitter Rene, and even crazy unreliable friend Jam. …and on …
The Winnipeg International Writers Festival, McNally Robinson Booksellers and CBC Manitoba Scene are proud to announce the winner of Manitoba Reads is Gabrielle Roy’s Where Nests the Water Hen, defended by Niigon Sinclair. The book that came in a very close second was The Life of Helen Betty Osborne, written by David Alexander Robertson, and defended by Vincent Ho. This book was also voted #1 in the Audience Choice poll. Alison Gillmor went to battle for Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas. And Paul Jordan …
Shaw TV & McNally Robinson Book Club Tuesday Sep 27 2011 7:00 pm – Grant Park in the Atrium, Winnipeg
Want to talk books with other book lovers – but without the commitment of a regular book club? Shaw TV’s Joanne Kellyand McNally Robinson Booksellers have created a new kind of book club open to everyone in Winnipeg.
We will announce a new book at the beginning of each month on Shaw TV and through McNally Robinson’s The Booksellernewsletter. You …
Shaw TV & McNally Robinson Book Club Tuesday Sep 27 2011 7:00 pm – Grant Park in the Atrium, Winnipeg
Want to talk books with other book lovers – but without the commitment of a regular book club? Shaw TV’s Joanne Kellyand McNally Robinson Booksellers have created a new kind of book club open to everyone in Winnipeg.
We will announce a new book at the beginning of each month on Shaw TV and through McNally Robinson’s The Booksellernewsletter. You …
On Wednesday, September 7th from 8-11PM at McNally Robinson Booksellers:
Which Manitoba book, by a Manitoba author, will get Manitobans On the Same Page and be the focus of Manitoba’s biggest book club this year? All four nominees will be on hand this special evening to read from their work.
Jim Blanchard, the author of Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age and editor of A Thousand Miles of Prairie, will defend his work Winnipeg 1912, which won a Margaret McWilliams History Book Award …
Just a reminder…
Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers
2011 Writing Contests
3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!
Bliss Carman Poetry Award
The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s silver and turquoise ring to the first-prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry)
Judge: Sylvia Legris
Short Fiction
(one story per entry, maximum 10,000 words)
Judge: Marilyn Bowering
Creative Non-Fiction
(one …
David Lester — Book Signing Tuesday Jun 07 2011 5:00 pm – Grant Park by the Cash Desk, Winnipeg
The Listener reveals one of the world’s most tragic acts of spin doctoring while weaving a compelling tale of complacency, art, power, and murder. It is a startling little-known story that changed the course of history told in graphic novel form by David Lester.
1933: In a small German state, the last democratic election is about to take place before a failed artist named Hitler …
Coming up soon at McNally Robinson Booksellers: Anne Szumigalski
It’s sure to be one heck of a reading!…
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