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.

Creative Writing BC

Interested in literary events around British Columbia? At the last meeting of Creative Writing departments, we hashed together a shared word-press blog -- there you'll be able to check out literary events hosted by Creative Writing departments around the province.

Check it out:

http://creativewritingbc.wordpress.com/

Lee Maracle Reading

Capilano Creative Writing is pleased to present a reading by:

Lee Maracle
Wednesday March 21st
11:30-12:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LIBRARY 321


Lee Maracle is the award-winning author of Sojourners and Sundogs, Ravensong, Bobbi Lee, Daughters Are Forever, Will's Garden, Bent Box, I Am Woman. She is also the co-author of Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. Maracle has served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor at both University of Toronto and Western Washington University. A member of the Stó:lō nation, Lee Maracle currently teaches in the Aboriginal Studies program at the University of Toronto and the Centre of Indigenous Theatre.

Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

Erín Moure Reading

The Capilano Review & Capilano Creative Writing are pleased to present a literary reading by

Erín Moure
Tues March 6th
7:30 p.m.
Cafe for Contemporary Art
140 Esplanade East
North Vancouver
(778) 340-3379

Montreal poet Erín Moure writes in English, multilingually. In O Resplandor (Anansi, 2010), poetry is hybrid, emerging in translation and collaboration. Other recent books include essays, My Beloved Wager (NeWest, 2009) and a reissued Pillage Laud (BookThug, 2011). Her works have received the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and two A.M. Klein Prizes. Her latest, The Unmemntioable, is a poetic investigation into subjectivity, immigration and the western borderlands of Ukraine.

Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

UPCOMING READINGS:

Lee Maracle: March 21st, 11:30 a.m.
(Capilano University, Library 321, 2055 Purcell Way, North Van).

Kyo Maclear Reading

Capilano Creative Writing is pleased to present a literary reading by

Kyo Maclear
Thursday March 1st
11:30-12:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LIBRARY 321



Kyo Maclear is a novelist based in Toronto. Her debut novel, The Letter Opener (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the 2008 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and the 2007 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In 2009, she was awarded the K.M. Hunter Award in Literature. Her latest book, Virginia Wolf -- called "ambitious and complex" by Publisher's Weekly -- is a powerful follow-up to her first collaborative children's book Spork (both illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault). Her latest novel, Stray Love, appears later this month.

Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.

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

UPCOMING READINGS:

Erín Moure: March 6th, 7:30 p.m.

(Cafe for Contemporary Art, 140 Esplanade East, North Van).

Lee Maracle: March 21st, 11:30 a.m.

(Capilano University, Library 321, 2055 Purcell Way, North Van).