The Capilano Review Celebrates its 100th Issue

Celebrate TCR's 100th issue and 30th series with readings by past and present Capilano College writers Daphne Marlatt, Lisa Robertson, Clint Burnham, Sharon Thesen, Ryan Knighton, George Stanley, Crystal Hurdle, Roger Farr, Reg Johanson, Meredith Quartermain, and others.

Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Thurs Sept 13 at 7:30pm
tickets at the door $8, students $5

604.984.1712
contact@thecapilanoreview.ca

New Creative Writing Class for Fall 2007: ENGL 291 (Advanced Fiction)

We're pleased to announce that a new section of ENGL 291: FICTION has just been opened for the Fall 2007 term at Capilano. The class will taught by Roger Farr on Thursday afternoons from 1:30 - 5:30, and will focus on contemporary forms of narrative, and on editing and preparing prose manuscripts for publication. Pre-requisites are ENGL 190 & 191, or premission of the instructor.

For more information email the Instructor or phone Humanties: 604.984.4957 .

Launch of Peter Dubé's "At the Bottom of the Sky"

DC Books and the Canada Council present the launch of

At the Bottom of the Sky

Peter Dubé's new fiction collection

SPARTACUS books

Sunday, May 27th, 5 p.m.
Reading & signing

319 West Hastings (2nd floor).

Peter Dubé is the author of the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002), the short fiction collection At the Bottom of the Sky (DC Books, 2007) and the Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001) In addition, his essays and critical writings have been widely published in journals such as CV Photo and Esse, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Occurrence and The Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. He is the President of the Quebec Writers' Federation and a member of the editorial board of the art magazine Espace Sculpture. Peter lives and works in Montreal.


From, At the Bottom of the Sky:

"A riot. That's what the media call it, anyway. A tumult of bodies: some uniformed and bearing truncheons, others in shorts made from second-hand fatigues, a handful with balaclavas pulled over their faces - all of them pushing and pulling, slamming into each other. In some places blood streaks across flesh. Dust clouds climb above the scene and overhead helicopters lend someone a view through them. To my left, a few women dressed in billowing print skirts remain seated, arms linked as a cop leans in, fury in his eyes and one arm outstretched towards them. I can hear the terrifying skirl of the sirens.

Zack's hand is shaking, and all he's doing is handing me the photograph. He remembers the afternoon as clearly as I do, I guess. His eyes are moist."

for more information:

http://www.peterdube.com/

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Delible: A New Novel by Anne Stone

Insomniac Press and the Kootenay School of Writing are pleased to invite you to the launch of

Delible
a new novel by Anne Stone

SPARTACUS books
Friday, May 18th, 8 p.m.
319 West Hastings (2nd floor).


Advance praise for Delible:

"Delible is a burning photograph of a girl who disappeared. Anne Stone takes us inside disappearance, its shock and suspense, into a family denuded by loss -- a dark and brilliant work in which understanding is inseparable from grief."

- Camille Roy, author of Craquer, Cheap Speech, and Swarm

"A seductive meditation on the ways young women mythologize, cling to, enrapture, and lose one another. This book is equal parts beauty and perversity, darkness and light. An affecting portrait of girls in the eighties drawn with great acuity."

- Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals

Event information: www.annestone.net/events.html
Publicist: Chris DiRaddo at (514) 842-5087 or

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #6: Jon Paul Fiorentino

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #6: Jon Paul Fiorentino

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts

& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano College

The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on May 17th, 2007 with a reading by Montreal poet Jon Paul Fiorentino

> Cedar 140 @ 12:30

> Capilano College
> 2055 Purcell Way

> North Vancouver

JON PAUL FIORENTINO is a writer and editor. His most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie - a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Editor-in-Chief of Matrix magazine.

WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN, COURTNEY?

She slides out of a launderette.
No, wait. She struts out of a café.

Check that. She stumbles out of a bus.
Or not. She steps out of a bank.

Too dull. She stirs out of a dream.
That sucks. She slips out of a clinic.

The washer is old; the smoke is thick.
The transit is slow; the credit is wrecked.
The fear is real; the doctor is sick

Her clothes are stained; her coffee is cold.
Her transfer is gone; her money is low.

Her mind is made up; her pills do not work.

For info:

Anne Stone

astone@capcollege.bc.ca

604.986.1911

'Zine Scene

As part of the Wonder of Words Festival, members of Cap College's Liar collective are hosting a workshop for kids on how to make a 'zine:

Thursday April 26th
5:45-6:30
Room 163
Hastings Elementary School
2625 Franklin Street
Vancouver, BC

New Entrance Awards!

The Capilano College English Department is offering several entrance scholarships for high school students interested in taking a two-year Associate of Arts Degree in English at Capilano College. Two English Department Scholarships ($500 each) and one Creative Writing Scholarship ($1,000) will be awarded.

Application Deadline: postmarked no later than May 15, 2007. Application forms are available here.

Return to:
English Department Scholarship
Humanities Department, FR 203
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5