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TWS reading series: Jan 15th at new location
The TWS Reading Series begins anew on Friday January 15th at a new funky location - Take 5 Cafe (at 429 Granville Street (@ West Hastings) Start time is 7 pm. (This new series location is staying open late for us!) Below is the list of fabulous readers who will be ringing in the new year for us.
GUEST AUTHOR
LALO ESPEJO is a Vancouver writer whose satirical monologues have been performed on university campuses across Canada, and aired on CBC radio. His short comic fiction has been published on the literary site, Rumble. His column, UNAUTHORIZED, appears in the new online media site, the Vancouver Observer, where he’s mostly making fun of the Olympics, because it’s just so easy to do. His blog can be found at www.thelaloblog.com.
READERS
JUDY McFARLANE In mid-life, Judy McFarlane went back to school and got her MFA in creative writing from UBC. While there, she wrote a book of short stories, which she’s been revising ever since. She’s done a couple of short documentaries for CBC and been published in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail.
JANE SILCOTT writes essays, stories and poems. Her work has been published in several magazines including Geist, Utne, and Contemporary Verse 2, and the anthologies Double Lives and Body Breakdowns. In 2005, Jane won a second place CBC literary award in nonfiction. She teaches at the UBC Writing Centre & SFU.
BONNIE NISH has been Executive Director of Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society, a Vancouver charity established to promote literacy and self-expression in our community, for the past seven years. Published widely internationally her work has appeared in such publications as Quills, The Toronto Quarterly, Illuminations, hackwriters.com, blueprintreview.com and greenboathouse.com.
BRAD TEETER is a forever hopeful political junkie. Brad is early retired after a career in journalism and communications specializing in First Nations issues, labour issues in the health care field and gay rights. He is currently working on a series of short stories, snapshots of the sexual and social awakening of the 7th child in a family of 10.
CHRISTI KRAMER, born in northern Idaho, comes recently from Washington, DC, where she was active with Poets Against War; Split This Rock, Poems of Provocation and Witness; and where she facilitated the Iraqi Children’s Writing Circle. Christi is in the LLED PhD program at UBC, considering poetry and traditions of reconciliation.
SYLVIA TAYLOR is an award-winning freelance writer, journalist, editor and educator with a passionate commitment to communication. She is Executive Director of the Federation of BC Writers and judges numerous writing competitions. Her creative writing appears in anthologies and genre magazines and shortlisted for the CBC National Literary Awards.
CLARISSA P. GREEN (TWS 2007) won first prize for short fiction in the 2008 VIWF contest. Her creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories reflect her thirty-five years as a therapist and university teacher. She is a mother, grandmother, kayaker and letter-writer who uses pen and ink.
RAOUL FERNANDES is often seen at the edges of fields just before dusk, sharing Armagnac with clouds and wild rabbits. When raoul is not writing poems or taking photographs or painting he is working on a collection of interviews with tourists who have actually seen the Loch Ness monster.
ETHEL WHITTY participated in The Writers Studio in 2006 and continues to work on the manuscript she began at that time. She is reading tonight from a recently developed excerpt.