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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CultureNet + Creative Writing Performance Night

CultureNet + Creative Writing at CapilanoU invite you to an evening of readings + performance by students past and present, w/ Special Guests Roger Farr, Kim Minkus, and Reg Johanson. The stage will be open to all Cap U writers, faculty, alumni and their friends.

8pm, Thurs Oct. 2
Hoko's Restaurant
362 Powell Street, Vancouver

Contact Reg Johanson or Aurelea Mahood at 604.986.1911 for more information.

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: CLINT BURNHAM

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

The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University kicks off on Thursday, September 25th, with a reading by Vancouver writer Clint Burnham.

September 25th
11:30 am, Library 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

CLINT BURNHAM is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His books include Rental Van (poetry, Anvil, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Buddyland (poetry, Coach House, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, Anvil, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, ECW, 1997). Work has also appeared in The Capilano Review, Open Letter, Queen Street Review, Pyramid Power, UE, and fhole. He teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.

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like sixties tv
greek tragedy
was too greedy
for more than one plot
you see Racine supersized it
had the son-in-law
in love with a doomed chick
me, I just want to find a young man
like Jackie Burroughs did in A Winter Tan
he could be a Foreigner, a Trooper, a Pink Floyd, a Toto

-- from "Phedra is a Cougar" (The Capilano Review, 3:1/2)

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

Fall 2008 Open Text Reading Series @ CapU

The Open Text Reading Series is brought to you by Capilano U’s Creative Writing Program, the Canada Council, and the Department of English. In its second year, the series has featured the work of Peter Culley, Marie Annharte Baker, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Jamie Reid, Maxine Gadd, Ken Belford, George Bowering, Rob Budde, Louis Cabri, Jeff Derksen, Si Transken, Lissa Wolsak, Rita Wong, Oana Avasilichioaei, Claire Huot, Larissa Lai, Reg Johanson, Robert Majzels, Darren Wershler-Henry, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Anne Stone, Donato Mancini, and Louis Rastelli. Many Open Text writers are also featured in the forthcoming anthology Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century, published by Capilano University Editions (CUE), a new press dedicated to documenting, supporting, and broadening innovation in contemporary Canadian arts and culture.

Fall 2008

Thurs Sept. 25 11:30 - 1 LB 321
CLINT BURNHAM is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His books include Rental Van (poetry, Anvil, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Buddyland (poetry, Coach House, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, Anvil, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, ECW, 1997). Work has also appeared in The Capilano Review, Open Letter, Queen Street Review, Pyramid Power, UE, and fhole. He teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.

Thurs Oct 23 11:30 - 1 LB 321
Poet and critic STEVE COLLIS is the author of three books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) and 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.

Thurs Oct 30 11:30 - 1 LB 321
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).

Thurs Nov 6 2:30 - 4 LB 194
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 is currently the Writer-in-Residence at SFU (2007-08).


For more information on the Associate of Arts in Creative Writing Degree Program, see our website.

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Launch of the Capilano Art-Vending Machine!

Please come out and show your support for locally-grown talent! There will be readings by first year Capilano creative writing students and a series of chapbooks available for a nickle a piece.

Wednesday August 20th
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Café Montmartre
4362 Main Street (at 28th)

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Writing is a Social Act!

Capilano University's New Creative Writing Program Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2008.

While creative writing classes are open to all University Transfer students, Capilano is now offering a unique Associate Arts Degree in Creative Writing. The program is designed for students interested in studying both contemporary literature and creative writing, with the aim of acquiring first and second year English and creative writing transfer credits.

View the Associate of Arts Degree - Creative Writing Program.

Beyond the classroom

Classroom instruction can be helpful for a writer, but we believe good writing is also the result of contact with a lively writing community. With this in mind, we are pleased to host the Open Text Reading Series, support a student publication (The Liar), as well as scholarships, awards, and internships with The Capilano Review.

Courses

Course desciptions for all creative writing courses are available in the online calendar.

Prerequisites

Currently there are no special entry requirements to the CRWR Program. However, all program students must take English 100 Academic Writing Skills (for Creative Writing), a course on research methods and critical thinking designed specifically for creative writers who are also writing in academic situations. In Fall 2008, this course will be offered as English 100, Section 14 or 15. Students must also take any section of English 190.

Contact

For more information about the program, contact the Creative Writing Convener, Reg Johanson

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