The Grapevine - UBC Creative Writing News

Winners of the 2009 Creative Non-Fiction Writing Contest,
judged by Charles Wilkins:

First Prize:
Jay Torrence, Vancouver, BC: “Poster Children”

Honourable Mention:
Nazanine Hozar, Vancouver, BC: “When Zahra Calls”

  

Prairie Fire McNally Robinson Booksellers 2010 Literary Contests.
3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!
Bliss Carman Poetry Award The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman¹s silver and turquoise ring to the first prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry)
1st prize $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250 in all categories
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Be at the James Street Café, as local arts promoters / poets / Pandora’s Collective co-founders Bonnie Nish and Sita Carboni feature at Spoken INK — the Burnaby Writers’ Society’s public reading series. Open mic sign-up time is 7:30. (This month’s topic is Echo.)

Event Details:

Tuesday February 16th, at 8:00 p.m

@ the James Street Cafe
3819 Canada Way
Burnaby BC Canada
( More info: www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com )

Happy Valentines Day from Locution! Come this Thursday the 11th, at Pulpfiction Books, and savour the literary delights of first years Indrapramit Das, Emily Urness, and Chris Urquhart. Second year Dan Schwartz will also sizzle beguilingly. Dina Del Bucchia, a lovely alumni of the UBC Creative Writing Department, is our fabulous featured reader. Come and show everyone the love!

Event Details:

Feb 11 at 7PM at Pulpfiction Books, 2422 Main Street, Vancouver

What’s Art Got To Do With It?
Every undergraduate student at UBC is invited to participate in an essay contest considering the relationship of the aesthetic and the political. The exhibition Backstory poses the question, you provide some answers.
There will be a $1,000 cash prize for the best essay. The essay will be featured on the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery website.
Essays might choose to address some of the following questions: Is it possible to perceive art outside of its specific political context? Can works of art be interpreted persuasively as political even when Read the rest of this entry »

Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment is pleased to announce the 2010 Hazel Lipa Chapbook Contest!
 
Seeking: 20-30 page poetry manuscripts with particular investment in human/place/environment relationships!
Winner: Will recieve $250, plus publication in a special section of the upcoming Flyway, a Flyway T-shirt, and a subscription for self or a friend
Runner Up: Will recieve $50, publication of selected poems from chapbook, and a subscription for self or a friend
Entry Fee: $10, or $24 for entry fee and a 1-year subscription to Flyway (the normal subscription cost is $24/year!)
Deadline: March 10, 2010
 
Mail to:
Hazel Lipa “Environmental” Poetry Chapbook Contest
Flyway
206 Ross Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
 
We hope to see your writing! Best of luck! 
Managing Editor, Flyway

Ms. Annabel Lyon will be giving a public lecture and will be addressing the Vancouver Institute.
 
Ms. Lyon’s first book, the short-story collection Oxygen, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed and ReLit awards and her second collection, The Best Thing for You, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction. Her first novel for adults, The Golden Mean, was the only book nominated in 2009 for all three of Canada’s major fiction prizes: the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and was the winner of the Rogers’ Writers Trust for Fiction. In addition to creative writing, Ms. Lyon has studied music, philosophy, and law at Simon Fraser University and UBC.
 
Event Details:
February 6, 2010 at 8:15 p.m.
Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre
University of British Columbia.
Welcome all to attend.

In the Red literary magazine is now taking submissions of poetry and prose for its eighth issue, due out Spring 2010. We are looking to publish new and exciting authors alongside well-known names, so are keen to hear from any students who would like to see their work in print.

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Come join Sean Cranbury from Books on the Radio host a neato cast of creative characters

Feb 3, Wednesday 7pm

112 West Hastings Street

–here’s the info http://realvancouverwriters.com/

During the sixteen days of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Alex Leslie will be working nightly with Vancouver writer Elizabeth Bachinsky on a project they’re calling BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR.
 
BLACKOUT is a site-specific collaborative installation featuring the found visual and process-based works of audience members, artists, and curators of the arts salon at The Candahar. 

 For precise program details and regular updates visit www.presentationhousegall.com beginning February 1. The Candahar is programmed by Vancouver author Michael Turner and invited guests.
BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR acknowledges the support of SubTerrain magazine, the City of Vancouver, and the 2010 Cultural Olympiad’s support of The Candahar.
For more information, please email Alex or call her cell at: 778 868 7179

KR will be accepting electronic submissions February 1st through February 28th, 2010, through the Short Fiction Contest page of the KR website. Louise Erdrich will be the final judge. The winning story will be published in The Kenyon Review, and the author will receive a scholarship to the 2010 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, June 19-26th, in Gambier, Ohio. (Scholarship covers tuition, room and board expenses.) There is no entry fee for submission. Please direct questions to kenyonreview@kenyon.edu.
Here are the full contest details:

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The event may be of particular interest to both film and creativewriting graduate students who have stories ready to pitch to film and TV decisionmakers.

There is student pricing available for passes and to observe the special TV Pitch Competition, which would be a golden opportunity to learn about the pitching process without the pressure of enduring it!

More info is at www.ftxevents.com and all student pricing requests should be directed to marcy@ftxevents.com

Independent bookseller Duthie Books will shut its doors at the end of February after 52 years in business.
Facing pressure from online bookseller Amazon and multi-national chains such as Chapters, owner Cathy Duthie Legate has decided to pack it in and close the last of eight locations on Fourth Avenue in Kitsilano.
The family-owned chain was founded in 1957 by Bill Duthie.
“I’m just not making it, so I’m going to close it down,” said Duthie Legate. “We are going to start our regular sale January 28, but it will be better, of course, with discounts of 40, 60 then 80 percent and I hope to have all the books out of here by the end of February.”
“Then I will tear down the store,” she said. “I’m sorry that it will leave a void in the city.”
Duthie Books has been hurt in recent years by encroachment on the traditional book market from every direction: big box stores, online sellers and most recently Kindle.
The store typically carries between $650,000 and $900,000 in paid inventory and pays

source: www.vancouversun.com/randyshore

Arc Poem of the Year Contest has a new deadline:  February 1, 2010.  

Contest Guidelines

Arc: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine invites entries to its International Poem of the Year Contest.

1st Prize: $1500
2nd Prize: $1000
3rd Prize: $750

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PRISM international have extended their poetry and fiction contest entry deadline to February 15 (postmarked). Yes, that’s one day after Valentines Day. Send them your best poetry and fiction and not only will you win our love and a year-long subscription to PRISM international, you could win some major dough. Over $4000 in prizes!
See their contests page for more information: http://prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests.php