ATLANTIC INK Writers Festival

ATLANTIC INK, The Writers Festival is a week-long fanfare recognizing the twelve finalists for this year’s Ann Connor Brimer Children’s Literature, Atlantic Poetry, Thomas H. Raddall Fiction and Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction book prizes. The festival includes readings, signings, school appearances, writing workshops and panel discussions in the four Atlantic Provinces — from Charlottetown to Saint…

March 24th Back-to-Back Literary Events

Join the PEI Writers’ Guild and The Confederation Centre Public Library, and then the UPEI Department of English and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery for two literary events on March 24, 2009. The open mic starts at 6:30 sharp in the Library to allow for participants wanting to attend the reading to be able to…

Open Mic Night with the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild

Writers take note… do you have a piece of poetry, fiction or nonfiction you would like to share? Whatever you choose, just make sure you can do it in five minutes or less! Sign up for the Open Mic a half hour beforehand in the library. This Open Mic event is your chance to give…

Winter’s Tales Reading: David Hickey and Jeffery Donaldson

PEI native and poet David Hickey and McMaster professor and poet Jeffery Donaldson will read at Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30. David’s first book, In the Lights of a Midnight Plow, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Poetry Book by a Canadian. He is currently…