~ NEWS AND EVENTS ~
Brad Cran, Vancouver’s New Poet Laureate
Congratulations to Brad Cran, who was recently appointed the City of Vancouver’s Poet Laureate for 2009-2011. The general mandate of the Poet Laureate is to raise the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Vancouverites. Cran’s first book of poetry, The Good Life (Nightwood Editions) was published in 2002. Cran's book, Hope in the Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome) was the winner of the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award.
Andrew Binks at Toronto's Pride Week
Nightwood's debut novelist will read from his entertaining book The Summer Between at the Proud Voices Stage during Toronto's fabulous Pride Week on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 3:30 PM. For more info, go to: www.pridetoronto.com
Andrew also read at the Prince Edward County Authors' Festival on Saturday, May 23, 2009.
Bachinsky Makes Connections
Elizabeth Bachinsky is back in Vancouver, BC after her cross-country spring book tour with Michael V. Smith. In addition to the positive reviews her third book, God of Missed Connections, continues to receive, check out her Canadian Literature interview, interview with rob mclennan, and her new blog. Bachinsky is pictured here with poet Matt Rader after reading in Ottawa. She will appear at the Queensland Poetry Festival in AU from August 21-23, 2009. (Photo by Pearl Pirie)
Announcing the Fall 2009 Titles...
Nightwood Editions is pleased to announce our forthcoming books: O Canada Crosswords Book 10 by Macleod and Olson
Slapshot Hockey Quizbook by Jesse Paul Ross
Windstorm by Joe Denham
Red Nest by Gillian Jerome (pictured left)
Never More There by Stephen Rowe
Upcoming Reading: George Murray and Stephen Rowe
The Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador will host Nightwood authors George Murray and Stephen Rowe at their monthly reading series on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Railway Coastal Museum, 495 Water Street, St. John's. Rowe's first book, Never More There, is forthcoming in fall 2009. For more information, go to: www.writersalliance.nf.ca/local.html.
Tim Bowling Reads at the Robson Square Reading Series
Tim Bowling's The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture won the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada Non-fiction prize and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize, and longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. It was also selected as a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. This year, Bowling received the Guggenheim Fellowship, one of North America's most prestigious awards. Bowling is one of only three Canadians to receive the Fellowship, and the only Canadian writer. Hear him read on Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm. For more information, go to: www.robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca. Tim also read in Gibsons, BC on June 24, 2009
A Loss for BC's Literary Community
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of author Kuldip Gill on Sunday, May 10, 2009. Gill’s first book, Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions, 1999), intertwined English and Punjabi, life in Canada and life in India, past and present, myth and imagination. It won a BC 2000 Book Award and received much acclaim. MORE
Nightwood Gala an Immense Success
Poets Elizabeth Bachinsky, Laisha Rosnau, Greg Scofield, and novelist Andrew Binks, launched their spring books to a full house on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at the Heritage Hall in Vancouver BC. Thanks to everyone who attended the festivities and bought books. For photos of the event, check out the gallery.
Nightwood Editions takes Prince George
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Jennica Harper and Laisha Rosnau read at the Caledonia Reading Series, College of New Calendonia, in Prince George, BC on Tuesday, April 27, 2009. For more information, visit the event listing on Facebook.
And the Edmonton PoFest...The Edmonton Poetry Festival presented Elizabeth Bachinsky, Laisha Rosnau and Greg Scofield at this year's PoFest (April 23 - 26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta).
Check the Edmonton Poetry Festival website for more details.
Grit Lit: Hamilton's Literary Festival
Authors Patrick Friesen, Adam Getty and Oana Avasilichioaei read at the Art Gallery of Hamilton on April 2, 2009. For more information, go to the Grit Lit website. Getty's interview with Jennifer LoveGrove on In Other Words (CLKN, 88.1FM) is available as an MP3 download (67MB). The interview with Adam starts at 11 minutes, 27 seconds. Thanks to Jennifer at CLKN for recording this interview.
Forage takes the BC Book Prize for Poetry
Rita Wong's recent collection of poetry, Forage, won the 2009 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry and was a finalist at this year's 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards. The book was reviewed by George Elliott Clarke as a "fierce achievement...a formidable fusion."
McCartney named "The People's Poet"
Congratulations to Sharon McCartney who was awarded as “The People’s Poet” for her accessible collection The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The 2008 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry goes to a book written in the tradition of Acorn, Livesay, Purdy, and Plantos--accessible to all people in its use of language and image.
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01-Jul-2009 3:17 PM
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Awards
Dorothy
Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry 2009
Shortlisted
for 2009 ReLit Ring for Short Fiction
Shortlisted
for the 2008 Atlantic Poerty Prize and CAA Poetry Prize
W.O.
Mitchell Book Prize 2007
2007
Shortlists: Trilliam Book Award for Poetry, Ottawa Book Award, the GG's
Award for Poetry
Shortlisted
Amazon.ca Books in Canada First Novel Award
Shortlisted
2006 Governor General's Award
Winner
2006
People's Poetry
Prize
Winner
2005 Lampert Award, shortlisted Trillium
