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TWS Reading Series: April 16th at Take 5 Cafe
The TWS Reading Series will be hosting the April Reading on Friday, April 16th at Take 5 Cafe (429 Granville Street @ W. Hastings) at 7 pm. Please come and hear theses wonderful writers read:
GUEST WRITER
SUSAN INMAN (BA- Swarthmore College, MA - UCLA) has taught drama and English at Windermere Secondary School in Vancouver for almost twenty years. Following the onset of her daughter’s catastrophic schizoaffective disorder, Susan began to write and speak about issues connected to serious mental illnesses. Her book, After Her Brain Broke, Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity, was published by Bridgeross in February 2010.
READERS
In addition to owning a busy pet care business, CANDACE HERROD is a wife, an environmentalist, an active member of her church, and perhaps truest of all, a writer. From penning puerile poetry as a child to having main stage plays produced as an adult, Candace’s writing has matured into a true appreciation for the written art.
ESMERALDA CABRAL still considers herself a hyphenated Canadian, 40 years after leaving her home island of Sao Miguel, in the Azores. Her work has been published in the Globe and Mail and aired on CBC Radio. She is currently enrolled in TWS and is working on a family memoir.
ZOREH EHSANI (TWS 2010) was born in Tehran, Iran. In 1986 she left her fatherland for Europe, in search of ‘Freedom’ of expression. She is a life-long student and studied in Iran, Europe and USA. She writes about the way human beings suffer and her work is mainly affected by catastrophes around the world.
ANTONETTE REA was born in Vancouver in 1953. A mature Trans Woman, a survivor, the pen became her best friend while facing the challenges of life on the streets and the downtown east side. She will soon be published in the spring issue of Geist Magazine after winning the “Writers Jamboree” contest.
JENNIFER GETSINGER writes for fun and food. Recent publications: poem “Kitsilano is not Nantucket, though” in A VERSE MAP OF VANCOUVER; humorous advice on knitting “Green Gifts for the Eco-Crowd” in WEST COAST EDITOR (Winter 2009); and a monthly geological column in RESOURCE WORLD magazine.
PEGGY TRENDELL-JENSEN’s childhood passion for print has allowed her to work in newsrooms, write for various periodicals, and publish an environmental book. She explores the worlds of fiction and non-fiction, and is happiest playing in that place they overlap. Peggy offers workshops to writers of all ages in North Vancouver.
ANNE HOPKINSON gets up early to write, and enjoys the daily tussle with the English language. She writes a monthly column for the Burnaby News Leader, personal essays, fiction, and poetry.
RENEE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR writes thecanadaproject, about life from India to Canada’s West Coast, and places in between. Recent publication credits include Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Monday’s Poem at Leaf Press, The Vancouver Review, and Ryga: A Journal of Provocations. She studies poetry at The Writer’s Studio, Simon Fraser University.