The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM 2015 September 27-October 3 Edition Welcome to The Writing Pool’s Weekly Writing PostTM! We provide you with a free weekly newsletter filled with notices about contests, events, conferences, and other information that might be useful or of great interest to writers of all leanings. Meanwhile, calls for submission to…
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Writers Read at Stratford Public Library
On Saturday, July 26th, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., a diverse group of local writers will perform at Stratford Public Library: Orysia Dawydiak, Steven Mayoff, Beth E. Janzen, Jeff Bursey and Kathleen Hamilton. Orysia’s first novel, House of Bears, was published in 2009. Her short fiction has appeared in Riptides: New Island Fiction (2012)….
Acorn Press Launches Kira’s Secret by Orysia Dawydiak
What would you do if you found out you were a mermaid? Twelve-year-old Kira loves to swim. But her parents, who adopted her as a baby, have forbidden her to go near the sea where they live on the north Atlantic coast. Frustrated by their rules, Kira decides to rebel and jumps into the icy…
Book Reading at the Montague Library
Book Reading at the Montague Library On Saturday, 1 June, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., an informal and diverse group of writers will come to Montague Rotary Library. The Montague Library Writers Guild hosts the reading. Montague resident Kathleen Hamilton is a multiple-award-winning playwright, screenwriter and poet who began her career as a reporter…
Red Earth Women Presents
Red Earth Women Presentsthe last shindig of the 2010-2011 season on Thursday, April 21 @ 7:00 so come on down, share with us your words of wisdom – in whatever form they be- during OPEN MIC and enjoy our last island-special-guest-artist Orysia Dawydiak. Orysia Dawydiak began her first novel at the age of eight – it lasted all of twenty pages; hand written…
Book Launch: House of Bears by Orysia Dawydiak
Everyone is invited to the launch of House of Bears, a new novel by Orysia Dawydiak. WHEN: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7-9 p.m. WHERE: Haviland Club, 2 Haviland Street, Charlottetown House of Bears is Orysia Dawydiak’s first novel. When Luba Kassim reluctantly returns home to Northern Ontario, the strained relationship with her traditional Ukrainian mother…
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…
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,…
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