Last chance (for a bit, anyway!) to check out the Aboriginal Writers’ Collective of Manitoba at the library. Join us for the last evening show of AWCM and Winnipeg Public Library’s groundbreaking Readers’ Series 2011 – 2012. This time enjoy these great talents in the fabulous, new(ish… but it’s still gorgeous!) West End Library.
In Progress…
Looking for a chance to listen to established and emerging Aboriginal writers share their latest work? From poets to storytellers, comedians to screen writers, members of the Aboriginal Writers’ …
Last chance (for a bit, anyway!) to check out the Aboriginal Writers’ Collective of Manitoba at the library. Join us for the last evening show of AWCM and Winnipeg Public Library’s groundbreaking Readers’ Series 2011 – 2012. This time enjoy these great talents in the fabulous, new(ish… but it’s still gorgeous!) West End Library.
In Progress…
Looking for a chance to listen to established and emerging Aboriginal writers share their latest work? From poets to storytellers, comedians to screen writers, members of the Aboriginal Writers’ …
Check out this article by The Guardian on the status of the publication industry. It offers some interesting insight into the industry as it stands. Read on!…
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 …
Margaret Laurence Award nominee readings: Dueck, Grayson, Arnason & Bergen
Thursday, April 7 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Aqua Books
274 Garry Street (between Graham & Portage)
Winnipeg, MB
Dora Dueck, Patti Grayson, David Arnason, Joan Thomas and David Bergen have been shortlisted for this year’s Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.
The prize will be awarded at the Manitoba Book Awards on April 17, but in the meantime, Aqua Books is continuing its tradition of hosting nominee readings.
Bookstore owner Kelly Hughes will host.
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Dora Dueck is author of the novel Under the
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Lansdowne Prize nominee reading: Ball, Gordon & Cayer
Reading!
Thursday, March 31 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Aqua Books
274 Garry Street (between Graham & Portage)
Winnipeg, MB
Jonathan Ball, Ariel Gordon and Lori Cayer have been shortlisted for this year’s Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry.
Bookstore owner Kelly Hughes will hand out the prize at the Manitoba Book Awards on April 17, but in the meantime, Aqua Books is continuing its tradition of hosting nominee readings.
Award-winning writer Chandra Mayor will host this event featuring nominees for the Aqua Books Lansdowne
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- Time travel, Manitoba politics and family drama
- Murder and donuts
- Writer’s block
- The Russian revolution and coming home
Those were the stories and verses on display at the Writers’ Circle wrap-up on June 9. Four brave souls (full disclosure: I was one of them) took the stage to read some of the work they had honed in the past year at Writers’ Circles.
Then we spent the remainder of the evening with our adoring fans, talking about writing, gardening, sci-fi and everything in between.
It …
Spring has sprung/The grass has riz/I wonder where/The nearest bookstore is . . . Every spring, as the snow begins to melt and the trees begin to bud, I become impatient for sunny summer mornings spent taking in the view from my balcony while I fuss over the brightly coloured blooms in the window boxes , sip steaming hot cafe-au-lait from a mug the size of a washbasin, and get my nose into a book.
I love the freedom of “summer reading.” Even the phrase …
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