Lynda Barry, September 28 7:30 pm

Lynda Barry - Artist Talk

NSCU Centre

September 28, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

FREE

One of the most successful alternative American cartoonists, Lynda Barry has blazed many trails over her 30 year career. Best known for her Ernie Pook's Comeek about family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls; Freddie, Arna and Marlys, the syndicated strip ran for two decades in non-mainstream weeklies. Barry is also a painter, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator and teacher.

Open Text Reading Series

Meredith Quartermain
Thursday September 27
11:30-1:00 pm
Room: LIBRARY 322

Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Meredith Quartermain is known across Canada as a writer of urban spaces and an innovator of poetic and narrative form. Vancouver Walking (NeWest Press, 2005) won the 2006 BC Book Award  for Poetry; Nightmarker (NeWest, 2008) was a finalist for the 2009 Vancouver Book Award; and Recipes from the Red Planet (BookThug, 2010) was a finalist for the 2011 BC Book Award for fiction. Her work appears regularly in magazines such as The Walrus, Canadian Literature, Matrix, and Prism International, and was recently included in Best Canadian Poetry. Critics have called her a "spellbinding phrasemaker" and "fearlessly droll" remarking that her work is "prescient" and "daring" yet informed by "a centuries-wise arsenal of research" that engages the layers of public space on an epic scale. She is cofounder of Nomados Literary Publishers, which has published more than 35 books of contemporary writing. She is also Writer in Residence for the Vancouver Public Library for 2012.

Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for this reading.

Upcoming Open Text Readings:

Clint Burnham: Tuesday, October 16 from 2:30 - 4 pm LB186
Garry Gottfriedson: Thursday, October 25 from 11:30 - 1pm CE148
Barry McKinnon and Shane Rhodes:  Thursday, November 15 from 11:30 - 1 pm LB322
Jamie Reid:  Tuesday, November 20 from 2:30 - 4 pm L 186

For further information on the Open Text Reading Series please contact Kim Minkus, Convenor for Creative Writing at kminkus@capilanou.ca

First Meeting of The Liar Collective 

The first meeting of The Liar Collective will take place:

Date: Thursday, September 20th
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Where: FR424 (in the Humanities office)

If you are unable to attend this meeting, but would still like to join the collective, please email theliarcollective@gmail.com.