Friday, November 7, 2014

Literary reading by poet Connie Fife



Friday, November 14th, 1:30-2:30 p.m. (Capilano U, LB 321)

Connie Fife, originally from Saskatchewan, is Cree. She’s the author of three collections of poems (Speaking Through Jagged Rock, Poems for a New World, and Beneath the Naked Sun) and edited the ground-breaking collection, The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women.




Saturday, September 20, 2014

Capilano Creative Writing Fall Events...

Literary reading featuring Nikki Reimer
Thursday, September 25th 2014, 1-2p.m. (Capilano U, Fir 205)
Join us and hear some fresh new work from poet Nikki Reimer. She is the author of two books of poetry [sic], shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and DOWNVERSE. She is the former managing editor of EVENT Magazine and a contributing editor to Poetry is Dead. Her poetry has been described as “a giddy, whimsical and expertly timed series of fake-outs and sucker punches.”


Capilano Writers featured at Word on the Street
Sunday Sept. 28th, 2014, 3:40 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. (Vancouver Public Library’s Library Square at the Magazine Words Venue)
This year, the Word On the Street – Vancouver’s annual literacy and reading celebration – will feature some of the faces behind The Liar in a session called “Lying to Try It,” featuring Alex Wetter, Lauren Gargiulo, Tremaine Friske, Allie Quelch, Iain Angus, and Bryan Wood. Come and hear the irreverent, exciting and always unpredictable work of some of Capilano’s finest current and former creative writing students.


Liar Submission Deadline
October 21st, 2014
The deadline to submit your creative piece to The Liar (our student-run literary publication) is October 21st, 2014. (Details on their submission posters). Send your most brilliant work off by email to theliarcollective@gmail.com


Book Launch featuring Crystal Hurdle
Thursday, October 30th, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Capilano U, Fir 206)
Come on out and support English and Creative Writing teacher Crystal Hurdle as she launches her latest book of poetry, Teacher’s Pets. Crystal Hurdle’s latest collection of poetry has been lauded for its “forthright examination of issues of power and responsibility.” This book “reads like a play, resonates like poetry, and is as absorbing as a novel. Teacher’s Pets is a funny, irreverent, and unsettling window into the darker side of sexual awakening and its inevitable disenchantment.”


Literary reading by poet Connie Fife
Friday, November 14th, 1:30-2:30 p.m. (Capilano U, LB 321)
Connie Fife, originally from Saskatchewan, is Cree. She’s the author of three collections of poems (Speaking Through Jagged Rock, Poems for a New World, and Beneath the Naked Sun) and edited the ground-breaking collection, The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women.


Liar Launch Preview,
Thursday November 27th, 12 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. (Capilano U, Cedar 140)
Come and get a sneak preview of the fabulous writing in the latest issue of The Liar (and watch for posters detailing the off-campus launch in early December).

Liar Launch -- details TBA.

Friday, March 21, 2014

OPEN TEXT SERIES: rob budde

The Spring 2014 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano U continues on Thursday, March 27th with a reading by Prince George poet rob budde:

 

  

Thursday, March 27th
LIB 321 @ 1:00
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver


 Rob Budde teaches creative writing at the University of Northern BC in Prince George. He has published seven books (poetry, novels, interviews, and short fiction), his latest being declining america (BookThug) and, just this month, Dreamland Theatre (Caitlin). His recent interest is experimental activist ecopoetry; he is working on a study of Devil’s Club / Hoolhghulh  tentatively titled "Panax" and an essay on animal-human relations called “The Parahuman.”

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Open Text Reading Series: Alex Leslie


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

The Spring 2014 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano U continues on Monday, March 24th with a reading by Vancouver writer Alex Leslie:
Monday, March 24th
LIB 321 @ 2:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver



Alex Leslie is the author of a collection of short stories People Who Disappear (Freehand, 2012), nominated for a 2013 Lambda Award for debut fiction and 2013 ReLit Award for short fiction, and a chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects for the New World (Nomados 2011). Previous work has been recognized with a Gold National Magazine Award and a CBC Literary Award and has been included in anthologies such as the Best Canadian Stories series and Friend. Follow. Text. #storiesfromlivingonline (Enfield & Wizenty, 2013). Recent projects include editing the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead magazine and completing a poetry manuscript entitled The things I heard about you, which was recently shortlisted for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.






Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Open Text Reading Series:

Hannah Calder and Gillian Wigmore


 Hannah Calder


Gillian Wigmore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hannah Calder and Gillian Wigmore

Thursday, October 17

1pm - 2:30 pm

LB321




Hannah Calder has been an editor in Vancouver, an English teacher in Seoul, and a translator in Barcelona. She earned her MA in English Literature in 2004 from Simon Fraser University and has published poetry and fiction in West Coast Line, The Capilano Review and dANDelion. Born in England, Hannah grew up there and in BC and currently lives in Vernon where she teaches English at Okanagan College. More House, her first book, was published by New Star Books in 2009.


Gillian Wigmore is the author of two books of poems: soft geography (2007), winner of the 2008 ReLit Award, and Dirt of Ages (2012). Her poems and non-fiction have appeared in journals and anthologies and been nominated for awards including the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry and the Great BC Novel Prize. A book of fiction with MotherTongue Publishing and a book of poems with Brick Books are both forthcoming in 2014. She lives in Prince George, BC.


Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

 

Upcoming Open Text Readings:

 

Nicole Markotic and Susan Holbrook on 7 November in CE122 at 1:00 pm

Jacqueline Turner on 21 November in CE122 at 1:00 pm

Tuesday, September 17, 2013


Aaron Peck

Monday, Sept. 30

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

 

LB 321 (Library Building)

Capilano University

2055 Purcell Way

 

FREE

(with thanks to The Canada Council for Sponsorship)
 




Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and Letters to the Pacific (in collaboration with artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried). Excerpts from a novel-in-progress, "The Bad Arts," have appeared in The Capilano Review, Joyland, Matrix Magazine, and West Coast Line. His criticism has appeared in Artforum, Art Agenda, Art Papers, The BelieverLogger, bookforum.com, Canadian Art, Foam, Fillip, and La Fabrica's Matador. In 2012, he was invited to be a participant in Documenta 13 as a "writer-in-residence." He also teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design where, in 2011, he won the Ian Wallace Excellence In Teaching Award. He lives in Vancouver.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Open Text Reading Series:

Margaret Christakos


   

Thursday, March 14

2:30 pm – 4pm

LB321


Margaret Christakos has been a worker in the field of letters. Her most recent publication is the BookThug chapbook The Chips & Ties Study (2012), from a longer ongoing composition called Tumultetudes. She has been working on a variety of fiction and poetic projects this past year and conducted research in Greece and England in fall 2011 on a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. A new poetry collection called Multitudes will emerge from Coach House in fall 2013. Her publishing history of 9 books includes Welling  (2010, A Globe 100 Book), What Stirs (2008, a Pat Lowther Award nominee), Sooner (2005, also shortlisted for the Lowther), and Excessive Love Prostheses (2002, winner of the ReLit Poetry Award). Since 2006 she has curated and facilitated Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon, and has nurtured the online magazine InfluencySalon.ca. She teaches creative writing and poetry at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and is Associate Faculty with the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA program.


Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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