Award-winning fiction writer, playwright, and poet J. J. Steinfeld will be launching his 13thbook, and second poetry collection, Misshapenness (Ekstasis Editions), at the Confederation Centre Public Library on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 2:00 pm. All poetry lovers are invited to come in from the mid-winter cold and hear J. J. read some “hot” — or…
Category: Publishing News
carte blanche is looking for submissions for Spring 2010!
The Montreal-based online literary magazine, http://www.carte-blanche.org is looking for fiction, non-fiction and graphic fiction writers, poets, translators, and photographers from across the country and around the world.We publish high-quality, cutting edge and good old fashioned great writing from both emerging and established writers. New for 2010, carte blanche has been invited to submit fiction for the Journey Prize award. Submission deadline…
Authors lobby U.S. court to reject Google deal
GLOBE AND MAIL Jan 7 Authors lobby U.S. court to reject Google deal More than 250 Canadian writers sign petition protesting illegal digitization of books John Barber Information giant Google is doing evil to their property, a growing number of Canadian writers claim in a petition urging a New York court to reject a controversial…
CALL : Contributions for Edited Anthology
Deadline: Dec. 18 Latinas/os PRESENTES: Voice, Culture and Creativity in Nuestra (Our?) Canada. We are seeking submissions for an edited collection of Latina/o Canadian cultural work to be published in 2010 by Tightrope Books, under their new Zurita imprint and edited by Lorena M. Gajardo, a Latina and scholar of Latino/a Identity in Canada. This…
New Memoir: My Mi’kmaq Mother
Nov. 19, Charlottetown, PEI: Julie Pellissier-Lush, the author of a memoir, My Mi’kmaq Mother, was greeted today with a standing room only crowd of well wishers at the launch of this her first book. The event took place in Studio 1 of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. Dennis King, Director of Communications…
CANADIAN STORIES
We publish a literary folk magazine called CANADIAN STORIES. Examples can be purchased at the Bookmark in Charlottetown . One of the regular features is the fact that we publish contributions from every province in every issue. CANADIAN STORIES comes out 6 times a year. Although we have an abundance of material from…
Book Launch: House of Bears by Orysia Dawydiak
Everyone is invited to the launch of House of Bears, a new novel by Orysia Dawydiak. WHEN: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7-9 p.m. WHERE: Haviland Club, 2 Haviland Street, Charlottetown House of Bears is Orysia Dawydiak’s first novel. When Luba Kassim reluctantly returns home to Northern Ontario, the strained relationship with her traditional Ukrainian mother…
Lion Lounge Press accepting submissions for Anthology
Lion Lounge Press is an independent publishing company based in Oxford and London, that specialises in creative writing, both short creative fiction and non-fiction, as well as poetry. They are currently accepting submissions for their 2010 publications. In August of this year, Lion Lounge Press published its first anthology of creative writing, ‘The Lounge Companion,’ in…
My Mi’kmaq Mother: Book Launch
Retromedia Publishing Inc. is launching My Mi’kmaq Mother by Julie Pellissier-Lush on November 19, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. in Studio One of the Confederation Centre of the Arts. This young publishing house has published a best seller on PEI (2008), which is now approaching best seller status in Atlantic Canada, called Behind the Gate by…
Call for Submissions to Riddle Fence Issues #5 & 6
Riddle Fence, a journal of arts & culture, is accepting submissions for its fifth and sixth issues. We are now considering previously unpublished submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Please send no more than 3-4 poems OR 1 piece of prose, maximum 5,000 words in length. Payment is $30 per printed page (prose and…
What are afternoon horses?
What are afternoon horses? The phrase comes from a poem in Deirdre Kessler’s poetry book, AFTERNOON HORSES, to be launched October 20th at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House by Acorn Press. Though Kessler has been writing poetry for more years than she has been writing fiction and nonfiction and has had poems published in chapbooks and in…
“The Royal Navy & Me” by F. Ben Rodgers Published
I’m please to announce the publication of my latest book, The Royal Navy & Me, a sequel to Lily & Me. It is presently available on-line at http://www.amazon.com and will be available at Indigo shortly. Unfortunately book signings will have to wait until after surgery (two hip replacements) next week 8th Oct. Anyone wishing a…
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