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REA 1035 : Building Poems: Language, Image, Idea- 
 
This poetry writing course is designed for writers of all levels. Focusing on the tools used in poetry construction, students will experiment with imagery, language, voice, and rhythm.

Through in-class discussions, exercises, and workshop activities, students will develop their skills in crafting engaging poetry in a supportive, creative environment.- start Date: May 15, 2012
seven evening classes- 18:30-21:30
at Langara College – for registration: http://tinyurl.com/7c7xcka 
 
Kevin Spenst’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Fire, Read the rest of this entry »

Dave’s new play Out in the Open, commissioned by Green Thumb Theatre is touring high schools throughout the province before heading to Ontario this fall and then a US tour during the 2013-2014 season.

Project Space will open its first exhibition, Arte Factum, on Friday, March 30 at 8pm with an opening reception that doubles as the launch of Poetry Is Dead issue five.

Arte Factum is an exhibition of poetry chapbooks from across North America
that features twenty contemporary works—including new releases by Jordan Abel
and Dina Del Bucchia, commissioned by Poetry Is Dead—and is accompanied by
curator Daniel Zomparelli’s personal chapbook collection along with additional
donated chapbooks from derek bealieau and Warren Dean Fulton.

Arte Factum Opening Reception & Poetry Is Dead Issue Five Launch
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8pm
Project Space, 222 E Georgia St (at Main)
Curated by Daniel Zomparelli
Produced in partnership with Poetry Is Dead
No cover
On Facebook | Hashtag #artefactum

There are only two weeks left to apply for the $27,000 Djerassi Playwriting Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Anyone with an MFA in playwriting or creative writing may apply, and there is no reading fee.

Since 2008, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing has offered the 9-month Carl Djerassi Fellowship in Playwriting, expanding upon its 25-year history of providing time, space, and an intellectual community for writers at the very beginning of their literary careers. The fellowship was established by scientist and author Carl Djerassi to encourage beginning-to-mid-career playwrights whose work is not only performed, but also has intrinsic literary value.  Read the rest of this entry »

Owen Laukkanen (BFA ’06) Reading at VPL
Incite
7:30pm on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Admission is free*
Alice MacKay room, Central Library
 
Owen Laukkanen will be reading at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library from his debut thriller, The Professionals, which comes out on April 3, 2012. The reading is part of the Vancouver Writer’s Festival’s Incite reading series, more info: http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/events/inciteapril18
 
For a bit more about the book, here’s a profile of me that’s running in this week’s Maclean’s, complete with bizarre hostage picture:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/09/hes-got-a-hit-on-his-hands/

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot–Adapted and directed by James Fagan Tait
Music composed and directed by Joelysa Pankanea
Neworld Theatre/Vancouver Moving Theatre (Vancouver, Canada) Presented with Theatre at UBC
 
Jan. 20-28 at 7:30 pm
Frederic Wood Theatre

Jan. 21, 22, 28, 29 at 2:00 pm
Frederic Wood Theatre

No performance Monday, Jan. 23
Post-Show Talkback Jan 22 Matinee, led by Kevin Bennett.
 
PREMIERE
In a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, is a sanatorium the only place for a saint?
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Adrienne Gruber, alumna of the UBC Opt-Res, has a chapbook launch on Thursday, December 8th, at 7pm, at Spartacus Books (864 E Hastings St.)

7 December · 19:00 – 22:00
Our Town Cafe (245 E. Broadway)

Cozy up around the fire for a non-denominational festival of words, wonder and whimsy! (It probably won’t be very whimsical. We have tortured souls.) The holidays are a time to be around family and we’re as close as you’ve got, so join us at Our Town Cafe where Diandra Barsalou, Taylor Basso, Ingrid Cheung, Stephanie Chou, Gena Ellett, Tamara Juozaitis and Evgenia Todorova will be prancin’ and blitzin’ through blizzards of fiction. Or something.

This reading is free for everyone and there will be multiple free raffle prizes! Gift-wrapped, even. Also, there will be booze, so come with that in mind, as a little egg nog often makes the holidays that small bit easier.