Explore creativity from within and become the artist of your Autopoetic Life Five Day Program at Oceanstone Inn and Cottages in Nova Scotia August 9th to 13th 9am to 4:30pm $499.00 (early registration discount available) When we quiet the mind, allow for pure consciousness to express through us, and gain clarity about who we are…
Category: Fairs and Festivals
Atlantic Book Awards & Festival Events
Bob Chaulk, co-author of SS Atlantic: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea and a double Atlantic Book Award nominee, will be speaking at two events in Halifax on April 15. The first event will be a panel discussion with fellow nominee Mike Herffernan, author of Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster. Chaulk…
Commonwealth Prize winners at King’s College/Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
The King’s Co-op Bookstore will host an Atlantic Book Awards & Festival reading with Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winning-authors Shandi Mitchell of Wellington, NS and Michael Crummey of St. John’s, NL: Friday, April 16, 7 pm, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College, Halifax (422-1271, x261) Michael Crummey has won the CWP Canada and Caribbean Region Best…
2010 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
The 2010 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival has released its schedule of free literary events–book signings, launches, panel discussions and readings–taking place in all four Atlantic provinces from Saturday, April 10 – Sunday, April 18. The festival schedule, as well as the list of titles 28 up for the 11 book awards, is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca Brochures listing many of the events…
TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2011 Tour
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre is looking for authors and/or illustrators with new children’s books being released in 2010 and Spring 2011 who are interested in touring schools, libraries, bookstores and community centres, outside of their home province, during TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2011. The next Book Week tour will run from Saturday, April 30…
TD Canadian Children’s Book Week Moving from Fall to Spring
After 30 years, big changes are coming to Book Week; the annual touring program will re-launch in the spring of 2011. Monday, March 22, 2010 (Toronto, Ontario) — The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is moving its annual TD Canadian Children’s Book Week touring program from the fall to the spring. The next Book Week tour will run…
2010 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival
Mark your calendars! The 2010 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival will run from Saturday, April 10 – Sunday, April 18 with literary events taking place across all four Atlantic Provinces. The Atlantic Book Awards celebration, a highlight of the week-long festival, will be held on Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Alderney Landing…
Pen & Inkling Festival
Dear Reader – Please help the PEI Writers’ Guild celebrate 20 years of encouraging reading and writing on the Island by coming out in support of the Pen & Inkling Festival, September 18 – 20, 2009. Exciting literary events will take place in all three Island counties at Tyne Valley, St. Peters, and Charlottetown. I…
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