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….
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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…
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…
red earth women presents
medicine for the earth, Guest island-artist Yvette Doucette and open mic at the next red earth women presents thursday, march 18 upei faculty lounge, main building doors 7, sign up for open mic 7:30 http://redearthwomenpresents.wordpress.com Yvette Doucette is a poet and mom who lives and works on Prince Edward Island. She is the owner of a communications, content editing, and…
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series
TWO SPELLBINDING POETS FROM ANTIGONISH: JEANETTE LYNES & DOUGLAS SMITH Two of Canada’s most popular, gutsy, and gripping poets, Jeanette Lynes and Douglas Burnet Smith, will read on Thursday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. Both teach literature and creative writing at St. Francis Xavier University. Lynes’ highly accessible,…
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series Presents ANNE COMPTON AT UPEI
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000168 EndHTML:0000003840 StartFragment:0000000468 EndFragment:0000003823 Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series Contact: Dr. Richard Lemm – 566-0389, rlemm@upei.ca ANNE COMPTON AT UPEI Award-winning poet Anne Compton returns to her native PEI to read from her new book, Asking Questions Indoors and Out, on Tuesday, February 16, at 7:30 in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. Her…
red earth women presents Laurie Brinklow
red earth women presents reading series starts the new year off on Thursday, January 14, 2010 with local artist Laurie Brinklow {and AS ALWAYS open mic}. Laurie is a writer and editor, and publisher of Charlottetown’s Acorn Press, which she started in 1993. Her poetry has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and was published in…
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series
WINTER’S TALES: THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO Steven Galloway, author of the international best-selling novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, will give a public reading on Tuesday, January 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. His reading is part of the Winter’s Tales Authors Series sponsored by the UPEI English Department, with funding from…
red earth women presents
arms of the wind nudge the last oak leaves toward you read them, she says red earth women presents guest-artist-from-away & disobedient poet catherine owen reading and touring her latest book Frenzy AND OPEN MIC FOR YOU sign up @7:30 read them read them read them read them read them read them read them…
WINTER’S TALES — CANCELLATION
Anne Michael’s reading, scheduled for Thursday, November 27 at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, has been canceled because of a illness in her family. She sends her regrets, and hopes to visit her in the not-too-distant future.
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series: A CELEBRATION OF NEW LITERARY VOICES
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series Contact: Richard Lemm – 566-0389, rlemm@upei.ca A CELEBRATION OF NEW LITERARY VOICES November 10 The Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series will feature and celebrate thirteen talented Island writers, most of them new voices, several of them familiar to Island audiences, at a public reading on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:30…
The Writing Pool 