Red Earth Women Presents is pleased to bring another February event with OPEN MIC and special-guest-island-artist Dianne Hicks Morrow. Since the publication of her poetry collection Long Reach Home in 2002, Dianne has given readings and writing workshops across Canada. A former executive director of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI, and a past president of the…
Category: Readings
Winter’s Tales Authors’ Reading Series
Contact person: Dr. Richard Lemm, UPEI Department of English / 566-0592 / rlemm@upei.ca WHAT: A RAVENOUS EVENING WITH JOHN STEFFLER & RICHARD CUMYN WHEN: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 7:30 WHERE: UPEI FACULTY LOUNGE When long-time Newfoundland resident John Steffler, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet during 2006-2008, gives a reading, it’s…
Winter’s Tales Authors’ Reading Series
KATHERINE GOVIER: MASTER STORY-TELLER Katherine Govier, one of Canada’s most popular and admired fiction writers, will read from her new novel The Ghost Brush, on Wednesday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. A reception and book signing will follow. Her reading is sponsored by the UPEI English Department and Canada…
red earth women presents: close to the heart
Red Earth Women Presents continues with our second season: REWP II: Close to the Heart next on Thursday, November 18 with OPEN MIC and Special-Guest-Island-Artist Beth E. Janzen. Beth E. Janzen is passionate about writing, teaching, and living a vibrant, creative life. The Enchanted House (Acorn: 2006), her first full-length book of poetry, was nominated for the PEI book…
Book Talk: Under the Electric Sky
Join author Christopher Walsh on a thrilling ride through the strange and fabled history of the Bill Lynch Shows. This is the story of home-grown folk heroes like Bill Lynch and Charlottetown’s Soggy Reid. Through his extensive research and travel with the carnies, Walsh chronicles the true story of the Maritime carnival with unflinching detail….
red earth women presents Moe Clark
Moe Clark, our guest-artist-from-montreal on thursday may 20 at red earth women presents is off erring an awesome workshop the next afternoon. please peruse the info and IF you can let me know IF you MIGHT be interested so we might have a sense… that would be grand moe’s looping pedal workshop friday, may 21 ”…
Bluefield High School Students Open House Reading
What: Bluefield High School Students Open House Reading Where: Confederation Centre Art Gallery When: April 24th, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Would you would like to hear some creative and thought-provoking young voices? If so, please come to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery for an open house of readings from the Creative Writing Group of Bluefield High School led…
GALA BOOK LAUNCH & POETRY CELEBRATION
A gala book launch and poetry celebration will be held on Saturday, May 8, at 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Haviland Club, at Haviland and Water Streets in Charlottetown, The gala is sponsored by the UPEI English Department and PEI Writers’ Guild. The evening features new books by Island authors Richard Lemm and David Helwig, a…
red earth women presents
April Showers brings us You WITH double-time open mic AND National Poetry Month AND Beth Janzen, special guest MC all more Medicine for the Earth at: red earth women presents thursday, april 15 upei faculty lounge, main building doors 7, sign up for open mic 7:30 http://redearthwomenpresents.wordpress.com Our special guest MC Beth E. Janzen is passionate about writing, teaching, and living a vibrant,…
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…
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…
John J. Guiney Yallop at UPEI open mic
John J. Guiney Yallop, author of Notes To My Prostate (2010) and On place and memory: A poetic journey (forthcoming), and Assistant Professor at Acadia University, will be reading from his new work at the UPEI Faculty Lounge on March 31st at 7:00 p.m. A short open mic will precede his reading. Please contact Sean Wiebe at swiebe@upei.ca…
The Writing Pool 