Upcoming events in Creative Writing -- Fall 2015

Join us for a DIY Chapbook-making and Author Promotion Workshop with SR Duncan

What: DIY chapbook-making and author promotion

When: Friday October 30^th, 11:30 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.

Where: Cedar 120

SR Duncan is a producer, publicist, freelance writer, and poet. He was the long-time owner of Pink Flamingo Works, a graphic design and small press publishing house in operation for 12 years and specializing in literary chapbooks and promotional material for limited budgets. Duncan’s broadcast credits include CKNW, CITR, Rogers Cable 4, CJSF and CO-OP radio, where, for twelve years, he produced a weekly half hour radio show called “WAX POETIC.”

            SR Duncan has performed live on stages across the Pacific Northwest. He has sat on the boards of Vancouver Poetry House, and East Vancouver’s Notorious Theatre in the Raw.  He was the president of the Edgewise Electrolit Centre – a non-profit society with a mandate was to exploit communications technology in order to widen the audience of Canadian poetry. His executive production credentials include the Downtown Eastside Fearless Festival, The Poets Corner at Word on the Street and Spoken Word Coordinator for CelticFest Vancouver.

            A graduate of the Arts and Entertainment Management program at Capilano University, Duncan has blazed a unique trail for himself as a Vancouver Arts community builder and a mentor to dozens of artists and small non-profits, specializing in literary-based entertainers, theatre companies and festivals.

Join us for a literary reading by poet, editor, and spoken word performer Leanne Simpson

What: Literary reading

When: Thursday November 12^th, 11:30 a.m.  to 1 p.m.

Where: Kexwusm ayakn First Nation Student Center (Library 196)

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is “a gifted writer who brings passion and commitment to her storytelling and who has demonstrated an uncommon ability to manage an impressive range of genres from traditional storytelling to critical analysis, from poetry to the spoken word, from literary and social activism.”

            In 2014, Leanne was named the inaugural RBC Charles Taylor Emerging writer by Thomas King, and she was also nominated for a National Magazine Award for her short story “Treaties” published in Geist 90. In 2012, she won Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing From the Margins prize for short fiction. Leanne is the author of three books; Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, The Gift Is in the Making and Islands of Decolonial Love, and the editor of Lighting the Eighth Fire, This Is An Honour Song (with Kiera Ladner) and The Winter We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement (Kino-nda-niimi collective). Leanne holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and has lectured at universities across Canada. She is of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and a member of Alderville First Nation.

http://leannesimpson.ca

Join us to launch the latest issue of THE LIAR!

 

What: The Launch of the latest issue of Capilano’s student-run literary magazine

When: Sun., December 13, 8 p.m.

Where: Café Deux Soleil, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Come and get a first look of the fabulous writing in the latest issue of The Liar. The Liar is Capilano University’s student-run literary journal showcasing fiction, microfiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, art, and photography. Always a fun event, and always, with an open mic -- come and try out that new piece (but remember, it's an all-ages crowd)!