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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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…
Beyond Silence: Voices of Childhood Sexual Abuse
During Family Violence Prevention Week, Beyond Silence: Voices of Childhood Sexual Abuse, a publication that was written and published on Prince Edward Island, will be distributed to P.E.I. public libraries. On Wednesday, February 17, 12:00-1:00 pm, SAGE will be holding a “brown-bag lunch” session at the Confederation Centre Public Library to celebrate the accessibility of…
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 — 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…
Book Reading and Signing on May 16th
WHAT: Author reading and book signing – The Book of Angels, The Hidden Secrets: Dreams, Signs, Meditation WHO: Kaya and Christiane Muller WHERE: Confederation Centre Public Library WHEN: Saturday, May 16th at 2:00pm Books will be available for purchase. For more information, visit: http://www.ucm.ca/en/shop/the-book-of-angels-the-hidden-secrets.html
Bill Richardson to Read at Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Bill Richardson will give a public reading at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Thursday, July 30, 7:30 p.m., an event co-hosted by the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild, the Friends of the Confederation Centre Public Library, the UPEI Department of English, and the Indian River Festival. Bill Richardson will be a guest host at 2009 Indian…
Atlantic Book Awards and Festival Readings on April 16, 2009
Lovers of Atlantic and Island writing can look forward to a double helping of literary enjoyment this Spring, with two book elebrations being offered at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. This Thursday, April 16th, at 7pm, the Atlantic Book Awards and Festival (http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca) are pleased to present an evening of readings from Award nominated authors,…
The Writing Pool 