This year Enfield & Wizenty launches a fiction contest to celebrate our own survival, as we go into our third season as a national fiction imprint of Great Plains Publications. For this champagne-soaked third year, Enfield & Wizenty is offering a $5,000 advance for the most outstanding submission of literary fiction that we receive. We will…
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Launch of a New Play at Green Gables House
A happy event will take place at Green Gables, PEI National Park of Canada on Saturday June 20th from 5 to 7 pm. The Montgomery Theatre in conjunction with Parks Canada will be announcing a new production, Maud of Cavendish, which will be the first professional theatre production ever to take place in a National…
The Great Canadian Literary Hunt
The hunt is on … For talented Canadian writers to submit their unpublished gems to This Magazine’s annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt. For 13 years this national event has attracted hot new Canadian talent seeking a chance at fame and a $750 cash prize for first place. The top three entries in both the fiction…
Comedy Night for Literacy at the Carrefour
Tomorrow night at 7:00 is Comedy Night for Literacy at the Carrefour. This is a fundraiser for literacy and should be a great time with Lorne Elliot and guests Margie Carmichael, Patrick Ledwell, Cynthia Dunsford and Matt Stewart. Tickets are $30. You can buy tickets at Timothy’s World Coffee, the Credit Unions in Charlottetown and…
Tatamagouche Centre Summer Workshops
Visit the Tatamagouche Centre website to get more information about their Creative Arts summer workshops for 2009. http://tatacentre.ca/programs/details/107 http://www.tatacentre.ca
Malahat wins four NMAs!
The Malahat Review congratulates four of its authors who won 2008 National Magazine Awards, where were announced on Friday, June 5, 2009, in Toronto: Fiction Andrew Tibbetts of Toronto, Ontario, won Gold for “Dead Man’s Wedding” D. W. Wilson of Victoria, B.C., won Silver for “The Elasticity of Bone” Poetry Sina Queyras of Montreal, Quebec,…
Rock Barra Artist Retreat Co-op Summer Evening Social
By special invitation…. The friends of Rock Barra Artist Retreat Co-op invite you to a summer evening social at the wHy loft, corner of Prince and Euston Streets in Charlottetown on Thursday June 18, 7 -10-00 p.m. Join us for an evening of great music, delightful cakes by world-class chefs, wonderful coffee, choice Chinese teas…
Bill Richardson Gives Public Reading
Everyone is invited to a free public reading by Bill Richardson at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Thursday, July 30, 7:00 p.m., an event co-hosted by the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild, the Friends of the Confederation Centre Public Library, the UPEI Department of English, and the Indian River Festival. Bill Richardson is a writer and…
Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs
Dear Fellow Creative Writing Instructors: Many of you may remember an email in November 2008 from the University of Calgary Creative Writing Faculty proposing to form an organization of Canadian creative writing instructors. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and included many concrete proposals. As a result, our committee has expanded and decided to pursue the…
Quattro Books Novella Contest and 2010 KEN KLONSKY Novella Contest
Quattro Books publishers, home of the Canadian novella, are excited to announce that the winners of our 2009 novella contest – Binnie Brennan, from Halifax , for Harbour View; and Egidio Coccimiglio, from Sault Ste. Marie, for A Pleasant Vertigo – will have their books launched in Toronto on October 20th. For more information, visit…
LT.-GOVERNOR HERMÉNÉGILDE CHIASSON, ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
LT.-GOVERNOR HERMÉNÉGILDE CHIASSON, ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE Herménégilde Chiasson, the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, is one of Canada’s most accomplished cultural icons. A celebrated playwright, poet, director, curator, researcher, and journalist, His Honour will give a reading and talk at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Tuesday, June 23, at 7:00 p.m. A reception will follow. His…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Island Literary Awards Creates New Screenplay Category
Island screenwriters are invited to submit feature length screenplays to a new category of the Island Literary Awards. Unlike other categories in the Island Literary Awards, the Screenplay Category will not offer cash prizes; instead it will focus on helping script writers with their professional development. Prizes for winning feature length screenplays will be as…
The Writing Pool 