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Talk by NYTimes bestselling cnf writer Ted Fishman (author of CHINA INC, and SHOCK OF GRAY), on Thursday, February 16, 2012 @ 12 NOON

EVERYONE WELCOME to this brown-bag luncheon talk by Ted Fishman, whose SHOCK OF GRAY (about the alarming effects of the world’s rapidly aging population) has been making major waves across the media.

This is a talk specifically for writing and journalism students, covering such topics as the thrills and spills of researching a book with major social implications, dealing with editors on controversial topics, and similar nuts & bolts issues. This event is being co-hosted by UBC Creative Writing and UBC’s School of Journalism.

LOCATION: UBC School of Journalism (one building south of the Freddy Wood Theatre). Bagged lunches okay. FREE ADMISSION.

Barely South Review is now accepting submissions for the September 2012 issue for unpublished poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and art.

Check out submission guidelines here:  http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/submission-guidelines/

Barely South is also accepting entries to the inaugural Norton Girault Literary prize!  One fiction story will win $1,000 and publication in Barely South Review.  The guest judge this year is Cristina Garcia.  Complete guidelines and entry form can be found here:  http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/the-norton-girault-literary-prize/

Deadline for September 2012 issue submissions is March 31st.  Deadline for entries to the Norton Girault Literary Prize is February 29th, 2012.
Send general questions to: odu.creative.writing@gmail.com

This year’s theme is: science fiction. (In future years, it could be fantasy, romance, noir—who knows! But it’s SF this year.) Send your finest original stories of the future, near-future, utopias, dystopias, aliens and the unknown limits of the universe!

Word limit: 1,200
Due date: March 19, 2012.
Entry fee: $25 (includes one-year subscription to Maisonneuve)

The first-place winner receives $300 and publication in Maisonneuve. Two runners-up receive $100 each and publication on maisonneuve.org.

For more information visit: http://maisonneuve.org/contest/maisonneuves-genre-fiction-contest-science-fiction/

FEBRUARY 14-21, 2012 • 5 evening sessions Distinguished Indian screenwriter

Anjum Rajabali will lead a five-part workshop for writers with feature film or television scripts in progress. Each participant will have a private session with Mr. Rajabali as well as four group meetings. This workshop is open to everyone, but will be of particular interest to anyone interested in writing for the South Asian market.

Anjum Rajabali is one of India’s best known screenwriters, with ten feature film credits including Aarakshan (2011), Raajneeti (2010). He is head of the screenwriting program at Mumbai’s famed Whistling Woods Institute and honorary head of screenwriting at FTII, the national film school in Pune.

COST $195 Bursaries may be available. Maximum 12 people.

To apply, please submit a one-page synopsis, five-page writing sample, and brief resume with a cover letter to praxisfilm@sfu.ca. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2012.

Link:  http://www.praxisfilm.com/en/default.aspx

You have less than 10 days left to submit your creative nonfiction for the CBC Creative nonfiction Prize. And here’s one more reason to enter your work: the Banff Centre has partnered to give all first-prize winners a two-week writing residency. Here are the details:

• Deadline: February 1st at 11:59 p.m. ET
• Word limit: 1,200 to 1,500 words
• 1st prize: $6,000 courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and on the Canada Writes website, 2-week writing residency at the Banff Centre.
• 4 runners-up: $1,000 courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts and publication on the Canada Writes website.

To find out more: http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/literaryprizes/nonfiction/

Gurjinder Basran

Mother Tongue Publishing, of Salt Spring Island, is pleased to announce the 2nd Search For the Great BC Novel Contest.

Gurjinder Basran, of Delta B.C., won the 1st contest for her debut novel Everything Was Good-bye, and it went on to win the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for 2011. EWG was also Reader’s Choice for the ScotiaGiller Prize for 3 weeks in August.

The judges for the 2nd contest are prize-winning BC novelists Caroline Adderson, Gurjinder Basran, and David Chariandy. The contest is open to all writers living in British Columbia and the deadline for submissions is November. 1st, 2012.

Entry Fee: 35$

The winner will receive:

• A publishing contract with Mother Tongue Publishing
• $1,000 advance
• Regional book launches and readings
• Media coverage including reviews, interviews, etc.
• Publication of winning novel in a beautiful trade paper edition and ebook

Complete contest guidelines available at: www.mothertonguepublishing.com

INANNA PUBLICATIONS and PEOPLE’S CO-OP BOOKSTORE invite you to celebrate the launch of GRACE SHIVER–Poems by Cathy Stonehouse

“All too rarely a collection of poems deeply reminds me of why I love to read poetry. Grace Shivers is such a book.” —Betsy Warland

About the book: Grace Shiver is a multivocal meditation on violence, trauma, loss and renewal, which wrestles with the seeming incommunicability of extreme experiences and the possibility that, as Heidegger suggests, What is spoken is never, and in no language, what is said. The manuscript is divided into six sections, each of which employs different poetic strategies to engage with a wide range of personal and historical issues and the silences that surround them. The place of the mother is explored in terms of many elements: absence, inadequacy, frustration and a sense of being overwhelmed—as well as in terms of what Stonehouse calls “mother-like capacity” and “milk work”—in other words, as a compassionate witness.

Friday, January 27, 2012
7:00pm @ People’s Co-op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Cathleen With

We are well into the depths of January and it’s time to Locuterize! MFA readers this month are: Briana Brown, Karen Shklanka and Erin Flegg. Guest reader is none other than the wonderful Cathleen With.

About Cathleen With: Canadian author. Skids, her short story collection about Vancouver street kids from the Davie Village to the Downtown Eastside, was shortlisted for the 2007 Relit Awards. She was also shortlisted for the 2005 Western Magazine Award for her story “Carny”, which was featured in Humanist Perspectives. Her work has been published in several literary journals, including The Antigonish Review, Grain and Fireweed. While she is best known for her short stories, her first novel Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison was published with Penguin Canada in 2009 and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Thursday, January 26, 2012
7:00pm @ Project Space
222 E Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1Z7

Norton Girault

Old Dominion University, The MFA Creative Writing Program and Barely South Review are pleased to announce The Norton Girault Literary Prize Inaugural 2012 Competition is now open (annual prize will alternate among Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction genres). The Norton Girault Literary Prize will be offered in 2012 for FICTION– one prize will go to a single short story up to 25 pages (double-spaced).  The winning story will receive $1,000 and publication in Barely South Review. One honorable mention will also be selected for publication.

The Norton Girault Literary Prize is named after Norton Girault http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/32nd/girault.htm
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/10/odu-literary-festival-words-still-matter-91yearold-writer

Guidelines and form can be obtained by going to http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/the-norton-girault-literary-prize/

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So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2012 issue. This issue will feature the fiction contest winner, as well as poetry, nonfiction, and art. Submissions will be accepted from January 1- March 15 through the onlinesubmissions manager.

The contest judge for the Fall 2012 Fiction Contest will be Ru Freeman. The winner will receive prize money and publication, and contests finalists will be published in the issue. The contest entry fee of $15 will include a free copy of the Fall 2012 issue for all entrants.

So to Speak, founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly 18 years. So to Speak publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that live up to a high standard of language, form, and meaning. We look for work that addresses issues of significance to women’s lives and movements for women’s equality and are especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender.

Please visit http://sotospeakjournal.org/ for full submission guidelines

The next event will feature author Kevin McNeilly. This event will take place on January 26, 2012 from 2-3pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm 301) in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Kevin McNeilly’s debut poetry collection, Embouchure, compiles the intertwined lineages of trumpet players who came to prominence in the States during the “pre-bop” era, loosely defined as the period between 1890 and 1939.

The event is free of charge, but please RSVP in advance via http://kevinmcneilly.eventbrite.com/

Join the Vancouver International Writers Festival for a new series of illuminating readings and discussions with novelists, poets, non-fiction writers and more, presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. The series, which is free to the public, will feature a wide range of Canadian and international authors in events for readers

February 8
7:30pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Admission is free*
Alice MacKay room, Central Library

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221A Artist Run Centre is seeking project proposals from curators commencing late 2012. The organization has implemented the curatorial residencies program to encourage a diversity of curatorial approaches to this nascent interdisciplinary field. Emerging and professional curators and curatorial collectives are encouraged to submit which may include recent graduates and practicing artists, designers and architects. Projects may include exhibitions, performances, publications, talks or workshops. Proposals should discuss a viewpoint, theory, or approach that the project hopes to foster as well as include its relation to the organizations mandate.

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Devilfish Review, a new online quarterly journal, is now accepting submissions for our first issue. The deadline for the Spring Issue is March 1st, but anything submitted after that date will be considered for following issues. Will take previously unpublished short fiction up to 8,000 words and flash fiction up to 800 words.  Submissions of genre work are encouraged. Can be found online at www.devilfishreview.com and submissions are taken through submishmash page http://devilfishreview.submishmash.com/submit

Play Chthonics Reading Series 2011-2012

VANCOUVER — This December Play Chthonics presents the internationally acclaimed Canadian poet and artist bill bissett, along with the award winning Vancouver writer Alex Leslie. Join us for an evening of poetry, storytelling, and conversation in the warmth of Green College’s beautiful Graham House. All are welcome, but please arrive on time as seating is limited.

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2011
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College UBC, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road

Cost: Free

The Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations among writers, students, faculty, and community members in Vancouver. Play Chthonics would like to thank Green College for its patron support. The following UBC institutions and programs also support the series: the Dean of Arts, the Department of English, and the International Canadian Studies Centre. We gratefully acknowledge their assistance.

Contact us at play.chthonics@gmail.com

For full listing of events at Green College, visit: http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/index.php