OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: Wayde Compton

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University concludes on Thursday, November 6th, with a reading by Vancouver poet and public historian Wayde Compton.

November 6th
2:30 – 4 p.m. LB 194
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

WAYDE COMPTON is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He was Writer-in-Residence at SFU in 2007-08.


For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: Renee Rodin

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, October 30th, with a reading by Vancouver writer Renee Rodin.

October 30th
11:30 am, Library 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

RENEE RODIN, poet and visual artist, was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She came to Vancouver in the 60s and in the 80s began R2B2 Books along with its reading series which she ran for 8 years. Rodin is the author of Bread and Salt (Talonbooks, 1996) and the chapbook Ready for Freddy (Nomados, 2005).


For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)


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Open Text Reading Series: Steve Collis, Oct. 23rd

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University.

The Fall 2008 Open Text series continues with a reading by poet and critic Steve Collis.

Thursday, Oct. 23
11:30 am, LIB 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC

STEVE COLLIS is the author of three books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and The Commons (Talonbooks 2008). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions 2006). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University.

For information contact:

Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
Email: rjohanso@capilanou.ca
Phone 604-986-1911 local 2428

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KinderText Reading Series: Kit Pearson

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers' Union of Canada and the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University.

The fall 2008 KinderText series begins this Tuesday with a reading by award-winning Children's Literature author Kit Pearson.

Tuesday Oct. 21
4pm, Room LIB 321/322
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC

KIT PEARSON worked for ten years as a children's librarian in Ontario and B.C. and is now a full-time writer living in Victoria. Her books have been published in Canada in English and French, in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and Great Britain. She has won twelve awards for her writing, including the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work in 1998. The Singing Basket, a retold folktale, illustrated by Anne Blades, is for young readers. Kit's acclaimed Guests of War trilogy, published by Penguin books, features a British brother and sister exiled by the Second World War to new life in Canada. As well, she has edited This Land: A Cross-Country Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers. Her most recent book is A Perfect Gentle Knight.

For information contact:

Crystal Hurdle
English and Creative Writing Instructor
Email: churdle@capilanou.ca
Phone 604-983-7570 local 2420

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CUE / Open Text Anthology Launch!

CUE | Capilano University Editions
cuebooks.ca | contact@cuebooks.ca

Please join CUE in launching its inaugural season, with readings by George Bowering, Ted Byrne, Larissa Lai, Christine Leclerc, Donato Mancini, Sharon Thesen, and Lissa Wolsak.

Music by Cellosound.

Oct 17th. at 7:00 pm
Mountain View Cemetery, Celebration Hall
5455 Fraser Street (East 39th Ave. at Fraser)
Vancouver, BC

Special launch prices on all books. For more information, please contact Roger Farr (Editor).

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