Open Text Reading Series:

Barry McKinnon and Shane Rhodes

Thursday, November 15

11:30 am – 1pm

LB322

Capilano University

2055 Purcell Way

North Vancouver

Barry McKinnon has published nine books of poetry (most recently In the Millennium, New Star, 2009 and The Centre:  Poems 1970-2000, Talonbooks, 2004) and countless chapbooks.  His book, The the was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1980.  Pulp Log won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award in 1991, and Arrhythmia was the winner of the bp Nichol Chapbook Award for the best chapbook published in Canada in English in 1994. His chapbook Surety Disappears was the runner-up for the bp Nichol Award in 2008.

Shane Rhodes is the author of The Wireless Room, Holding Pattern, The Bindery (all with NeWest Press), and Err (Nightwood Editions in 2011). Shane’s awards include an Alberta Book Award for poetry, two Lampman-Scott Awards, the P. K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry, and the most recent National Magazine Award for poetry. Shane’s poetry has been featured in the anthologies Breathing Fire II, Seminal: Canada’s Gay Male Poets, and Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and 2011. Shane is the poetry editor for Arc.

Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

Upcoming Open Text Readings:

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

 

Barry McKinnon TCR Writer in Residence 

Book your manuscript consultation!

Barry McKinnon will be available for manuscript consultations November 5-16. Contact the TCR office to schedule an appointment: tcr@capilanou.ca or 604-984-1712. Provide up to 10 pages of work at least one full day before your meeting by email (pdf ideal) or by dropping off a hard copy to Fir 456. Consultations will run 30-45 minutes. Schedule soon to get your optimal time slot.

During his residency at Capilano University, Barry will also give a talk on Friday, November 9 at 11:30am in Cedar 148 and a reading, with Shane Rhodes, on Thursday, November 15 at 11:30am in Library 322. Also watch for Barry's blog posts in Fall 2012.

Open Text Reading Series

Garry Gottfriedson

 

 

Thursday, October 25

11:30 am – 1pm

CE148

Capilano University

2055 Purcell Way

North Vancouver

Garry Gottfriedson, from the Secwepemc First Nation (Shuswap), was born, raised and lives in Kamloops, BC. He was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Creative Writing Scholarship by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied under Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Marianne Faithful and others. Gottfriedson’s works include In Honor of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival (Theytus Books 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, 1990), Glass Tepee (Thistledown Press 2002), nominated for First People’s Publishing Award 2004, his first children’s story Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing 2005), and Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale 2006 — Anskohk Aboriginal Award Finalist).



Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

Upcoming Open Text Readings:

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

Open Text Reading Series

Clint Burnham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 16

2:30 – 4:00 pm

LB186

Capilano University

2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver


Clint Burnham hails from Vancouver Island, and writes prolifically in a variety of forms – poetry, fiction, and criticism. He teaches in the English Department of Simon Fraser University. Recent books include The Benjamin Sonnets (BookThug, 2009) and Smoke Show (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005). His new book, The Only Poetry that Matters: A Reading of the Kootenay School of Writing, came out last fall from Arsenal Pulp (2011).

Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

Upcoming Open Text Readings:

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

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.