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,…
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…
Full-Time Position Executive Director
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The PEI Cultural Human Resource Sector Council (CHRSC) is a not-for-profit organization that brings together representatives from PEI’s cultural sector to discuss issues and develop long-term solutions that respond to the sector’s human resources needs. The Council invites applications for the position of Executive Director. Reporting to a Board of Directors, this position…
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…
Bottle Tree Productions One Act Play Competition for Writers 2010
Bottle Tree Productions ONE ACT PLAY COMPETITION FOR WRITERS 2010 http://www.bottletreeinc.com/script_contest.html First Prize $1,000 Second Prize $250 Third Prize $100 One Act Plays of up to 70 minutes may be submitted to Bottle Tree Productions at 445…
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…
Call for Submissions: Undertow Press
“NL-based publisher Undertow Press are now considering full-length manuscript proposals in the genres of Literary Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction. Feel free to visit http://caughtintheundertow.com/contact.html#subs for more information on their submission guidelines and how to submit.”
23rd Annual Island Literary Awards
23rd Annual Island Literary Awards PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Deadline for Submissions : May 28th 2010 The PEI Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) has decided to go on receiving submissions, longer than originally announced, for the 23rd annual Island Literary Awards (ILAs). The new submission deadline is 4pm on Friday, May 28th, 2010. The PEI Public Library Service…
Prairie Dog Publishing Presents: The Christmas Chaos Writing Contest
For our upcoming anthology, we are looking for your tales of “Christmas gone wrong.” Your stories can be humorous or heart-wrenching, but they must be well-written, and they must be true. Contest deadline: April 30, 2010 For more information: http://www.prairiedogpublishing.ca
Cormorant Launches New Children’s and Young Adult Imprint
Cormorant Books is pleased to announce Dancing Cat Books, its imprint dedicated to publishing author driven literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry for the young adult and middle grades, as well as picture books. Dancing Cat’s Publisher, Gail Winskill, will direct the editorial vision. The imprint will have its own website, http://www.dancingcatbooks.com, designed by Bryan Ibeas,…
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…
The Writing Pool 