The Readers:

Eternal In’Lakesh recently changed her name legally through a divorce & much soul searching. Silent contemplation, has led to her realization, that within silence is a wealth of wisdom.From this pondering, came the poem The Realms of Silence.

JAMES GATES has worked on different sides of the page. For many years wandering among the woods trying to save trees, then as a forester seeing trees as standing pulp, and then using paper for communication. Words and stories are the fibers bringing these worlds together.

JAN REDFORD attended TWS in 2007. The story she’ll be reading tonight - Grant’s Lunch (also known as The Humping Bunnies) just won second place in the Vancouver International Writer’s Association Competition. Using metaphor is just one of Jan’s not-so-subtle attempts to avoid writing real sex scenes in her memoir.

ELENA E. JOHNSON has lived in India, Uruguay and four Canadian provinces. Her work can be found in the anthology Rocksalt – Contemporary Poets of British Columbia and has been short-listed for contests in ARC, Malahat Review and This Magazine. In 2008 she was writer-in-residence at a remote research station in the Yukon.

DAVE DUMARESQ is a technical analyst and software developer working with an editor on his first novel, The Shame Game. He has written a stage play entitled the Knee of the Curve and a number of short stories that explore an uneasy technological future. On weekends he practices Horseback Archery.

TANYSS KNOWLES completed The Writers Studio in 2009 and is attempting to diligently work on her non-fiction manuscript while completing a degree in anthropology. Her writing is about her experiences growing up as an expatriate in Cambodia and her exposure to the political situation there.

JULIANE OKOT BITEK has been writing for a long, long time.  More often than she’d like, she spends her time seeking paid employment, but recently has found a teaching gig which seems to jibe well with her writing. Juliane writes poetry, non-fiction and essays.  She also free-lances and is flirting with fiction after a long dry spell.

MORGAN CHOJNACKI is writing a novel about Corine, who’s 16, lives in a French town in Quebec, attends an English high school, has a best friend named Kat and immigrant parents who think too much. Morgan’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Stories from the Button Jar and other publications.

Retired teacher, BEN NUTTALL-SMITH has published a memoir about Surviving and Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse, and two books of poetry. He has just completed an historical novel about America in the Tenth Century and a rewrite of his memoir. Ben lives in Crescent Beach, where he also paints.

In her 20-year writing career, BERENICE FREEDOME has earned 12 copywriting awards from industry leaders like Applied Arts, Communication Arts, and WebAwards. In addition to a BFA in creative writing, she’s also taken home a few minor-league creative accolades; most recently an honourable mention in the 2009 Praxis Screenwriting Contest.

For more information or to RSVP contact Kathryn Ellis at kellis@langara.bc.ca or 604-323-5979.

Langara College, Continuing Studies, 100 West 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Y 2Z6

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Cathie Borrie (TWS 2005 alumna)
Leslie Hall Pinder (TWS Faculty)

POETRY
Adrienne Drobnies (TWS 2009 alumna)

SHORT STORY
Shana Myara (TWS 2006 alumna)

see more at: http://www.radio-canada.ca/prixlitteraires/english/shortlists2009.shtml

Located at 112 West Hastings Street across from the refurbished Woodwards Building in Downtown Vancouver.

The Real Vancouver Writers Series consists of 4 weekly events showcasing local Vancouver writers, publishers and creative literary artists at the W2 Culture + Media House. These evenings are designed to show the city and the world real and diverse Vancouver culture and real creative individuals in the literary and publishing communities at a time when the eyes of the world are on our city.

Countless millions of people will want to know what real Vancouver culture looks like.

We are determined to take the opportunity to show the world just how amazing, diverse, talented and fun our literary and publishing culture is! These events will occur every Wednesday during February beginning at 7pm.

Each night will showcase local writers doing short readings their work and/or interacting with a moderator, taking questions from the audience and will include book sales, signings, a multi-media component, music, cash bar, raffles and give-aways.

Every night will consist of writers that will give the in-house audience a glimpse of the variety of cultures, ethnicities, forms and skills of writers living and working in Vancouver.

It will showcase the writers, their books, their publishers and other support structures within the local community and the larger culture and publishing communities.

In conjunction with Books on the Radio and Geist Magazine.

February 17th – Hosted by Elizabeth Bachinsky

Teresa McWhirter, Lee Henderson, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Heather Susan Haley, Nikki Reimer, Chris Hutchinson, Dina Del Bucchia, Amber Dawn, Donato Mancini, Sonnet L’Abbe, Jonathon Wilcke, Catherine Owen.

February 24th – Hosted by Hal Wake

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Steven Galloway, Timothy Taylor, Rhonda Waterfall, The Yarnbombers Leann Prain and Mandy Moore, Weldon Hunter, McKinley M Hellenes, Alex Leslie, kc dyer, Leilah Nadir, Caroline Adderson, Brad Cran.

Schedule:
Tuesday Feb 16 7pm: Roger Farr, Stephen Collis, Donato Mancini
Wednesday Feb 17 2pm: Reg Johanson, Kim Duff, Jeff Derksen
Tuesday Feb 23 7pm: Clint Burnham and Rita Wong
Wednesday Feb 24 9pm: Cecily Nicholson and Naava Smolash

For details see http://shortrangepoetic device.blogspot.com or http://www.videoinstudios.com/radio.php

All shows will be on live feed at the above address, and broadcast locally on FM 91.5 (unless the man takes the transmitter down).

Based on the Downtown Eastside at the Carnegie Centre, the Thursdays Writing Collective meets weekly to write and transcend the poverty-related issues of the neighourhood. Thursdays has published three chapbook anthologies of work and given many public readings, earning a reputation as a fresh and vivid creative force. A dozen participants of the Collective will read pieces of published work and discuss the process of arriving on the page. Please join us for an afternoon of laughter and entertainment with an edge.

The Candahar is a locus for social interaction and the host site for an ambitious series of events, musical programs, theatrical presentations, performances and dialogues, both scripted and unscripted, curated by Winnipeg artist Paul Butler and Vancouver author Michael Turner (Hard CoreLogo).

The name “Candahar” refers to the original location of the now defunctBlackthorn Bar in Belfast pub. Irish artist Theo Sims has recreated the bar in Granville Island’s Playwright Theatre. Part sculpture, part theatrical
stage, The Candahar is an artwork that is also a functioning bar, open to the public and staffed, in collaboration with two Belfast bartenders who act as unscripted performers. The project fuses the authentic with fantasy, spectacle with stage, and at its heart acts as a catalyst for conversation, debate and dialogue and a pint here or there.

For more info contact Elee Kraljii Gardiner at thursdayseditor@telus.net or
604-202-0072.www.presentationhousegall.com/candahar.html
www.thursdayspoemsandprose.ca

To submit poetry or prose for the next issue, email the editors at:
inthered8@googlemail.com

Submission guidelines:
Poetry: 40 lines (a maximum of 5 pieces per person)
Prose: 500 words (a maximum of 2 pieces per person)
(Shorter pieces are very welcome.)

Please send your work in Times New Roman font, 12point. Work can be sent
in the body of an email, or as an attachment (.doc) labeled with your full
name and Poetry/Prose as appropriate.

Anonymous work will not be accepted!

The magazine only wants the right to publish work once in this issue, and would retain no rights to the work itself. Excitingly, In the Red is increasing their circulation to five thousand copies, but unfortunately this will not give them enough funds to pay authors. Hopefully, this increased circulation will generate interest in the authors’ work from people in the business.
The submission deadline is 28th February 2010.

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 . Leslie and Elizabeth will be on-site, providing the opportunity for collaborators (that’s you) to erase months worth of local and national pre-Olympic news with a bucketful of Sharpies. All poems will be shown during the last few nights of the salon and the best of the blackouts will appear in SubTerrain magazine.

Presentation House Gallery is staging The Candahar at the Playwrights Centre Theatre on Granville Island as “a locus for social interaction and the host site for an ambitious series of nightly events — musical programs, theatrical presentations, and performances. Highlights include an opening intervention and inquiry into the pub itself by Vancouver based artist Rebecca Belmore (Feb 12), presentations by authors Timothy Taylor (Feb 22) and Lee Henderson (Feb 15) musical performances by The Rodney Graham band (Feb 26), Tom Anselmi’s Hello World, (Feb 20), Lisa Marr (Feb 14) and Kevin Schmidt (Feb 27), talks by Nicolaus Schafhausen (Feb 13) and Skeena Reece (Feb 19) a performance by Althea Thauberger (Feb 21) as well as video screenings of Olympic interviews by Nardwuar the Human Serviette (Feb 16 and 23). Evenings are capped by guest DJ’s including Vancouver artists Stan Douglas, Adrian Buitenhaus, Stephen Murray and Tim Lee as well as an Olympic “wrap up” salon with talks by Jeff Derksen, Peter Dickenson, Clint Burnham and Ken Lum among many others. 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.

For more information you can email Elizabeth Bachinsky (ebachinsky@shaw.ca) or call her at 604-254-3034.

STIMULATING THEIR MIND AT THE

FIRST ANNUAL GALIANO LITERARY FESTIVAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 25^th 2010 (Galiano Island, B.C.) – Book lovers looking to soothe spirit and soul while escaping Vancouver’s Olympic check points and traffic snarls have another option in the peaceful and beautiful Southern Gulf Islands.

The first annual Galiano Literary Festival will be held February 19 to 21^st 2010, offering more than 25 vibrant Western Canadian voices and a gorgeous weekend away at Vancouver’s closest Gulf Island.

The Festival will get underway with an intimate welcoming reception on the evening of Friday, February 19^th 2010. Throughout the weekend, festival-goers will have the opportunity to meet a variety of writers from the Gulf Islands and across British Columbia in an intimate and casual setting. While the Festival schedule will be stimulating, visitors can anticipate having a few quiet hours to walk along Galiano Island’s beautiful beaches and serene forests.

Throughout the weekend, the Festival schedule includes readings and talks by over 25 writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry including John Barton, George Bowering, Norma Charles, Sean Cranbury, Dede Crane, Anthony Dalton, William Deverell, Ann Eriksson, Jenn Farrell, Pam Frier, Bill Gaston, Gary Geddes, Kim Goldberg, Geoff Inverarity, Michael Kenyon, Francis Mansbridge, Teresa McWhirter, Catherine Owen, Jamie Read, Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Audrey Thomas, Harry Thurston, Rhea Tregebov, Alan Twigg, Gudrun Will, Rhonda Ganz, Mike Christie and George Sipos.

A full slate of workshops and panels will discuss a wide variety of book and writing-related topics including how to develop a writing style, how to get published, and the future of the printed page in the e-book age. All of this will occur in a relaxed and cozy atmosphere where visitors will be able to talk one-to-one with writers and fellow book lovers, or just sit back and enjoy the conversation.

The Festival will take place at the Galiano Inn, a world-class resort that will provide a relaxed and cozy atmosphere. Festival organizers anticipate an intimate and vibrant event.

The Galiano Inn is just a very short walk from the ferry dock and Galiano Island Books, so visitors coming to the Island for the Festival can leave cars at home or at the ferry terminal in Tsawwassen.

Registration for the weekend is $150.00 per person, which includes the opening reception, admission to all sessions, and lunch on Saturday and Sunday.

Festival-goers may choose to attend for a single day. The cost for one day’s Festival events, including lunch, is $85.00 or $40 for a half day, without lunch.

Attendees are also welcome to join the authors on Saturday evening for dinner and conversation. The dinner is $25.00 per person (excluding beverages).

Event tickets can be purchased at Galiano Island Books or by calling 1-877-795-BOOK  (2665). The full festival program will be available soon at www.galianoislandbooks.com .

Lodging is available at the Galiano Inn through their Web site at www.galianoinn.com or on their toll free reservation line at 1-877-530-3939.

Accommodations for the weekend, including cabins, bed and breakfasts and lodges, can be found through The Galiano Island Chamber of Commerce on their Web site at www.galianoisland.com.
Event Tickets & further information on the Galiano Literary Festival:

Galiano Island Books

76 Madrona Drive

Galiano Island BC

V0N 1P0

250-539-3340

1-877-795-BOOK

www.galianoislandbooks.com

lee@galianoislandbooks.com