red earth women presents reading series starts the new year off on Thursday, January 14, 2010 with local artist Laurie Brinklow {and AS ALWAYS open mic}. Laurie is a writer and editor, and publisher of Charlottetown’s Acorn Press, which she started in 1993. Her poetry has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and was published in the chapbook, Scars (Saturday Morning Chapbooks). She was a co-founder of the Island Literary Awards in 1988, was the founding president of the PEI Writers’ Guild in 1989, and received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts in PEI in 2002. She currently works full-time as Publications Co-ordinator at UPEI. The night will start off with open mic with doors open at 7. Sign-up at 7:30. Bring your new year poem, old year prose, or sing your song!
UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010
The Writing Pool 