Writers' Corner Series-

Starts:

Sunday, April 29
1:30 PM

Ends:

Sunday, April 29
3:00 PM

Are you working on a story, a poem, a novel or a memoir? Do you need some encouragement, and the fine company of other writers? Drop by Writers' corner at the Stanley A. Milner Library on the last Sunday of each month at 1:30 pm. The EPL Writer in Residence hosts a friendly and supportive gathering with a different guest author each month. The guest author will give an author talk and reading and will then answer your questions and offer advice. Come and talk about your writing in a friendly and supportive atmosphere and listen to the suggestions of professional writers in our community. All writers and readers are welcome. No experience is necessay. Admission is free. Sunday January 29, 2012, 1:30 PM - Marina Endicott Marina Endicott worked as an actor and director before she began to write fiction. Her first novel, Open Arms, was short-listed for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002. Her second, Good to a Fault, was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean region. The Little Shadows, her latest book, was a finalist for this year’s Governor General’s Award and will be published in the UK and Australia in spring 2012. She is at work on a new novel, Hughtopia. Sunday February 26, 2012, 1:30 PM - Lynn Coady and Jennifer Cockrall-King Topic: How to pitch ideas and write articles for magazines Lynn Coady's fiction has been garnering acclaim since her first novel, Strange Heaven, was published and was nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Fiction when she was 28. Strange Heaven was followed up by a best-selling short story collection, Play the Monster Blind (2000) as well as the award-winning novels Saints of Big Harbour (2002) and Mean Boy (2006). Lynn Coady grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia and now lives in Edmonton. Her most recent novel, The Antagonist, was nominated for this year's Giller Prize and is a semi-finalist for the 2012 Edmonton Public Library Alberta Readers' Choice Award. Jennifer Cockrall-King is a Canadian food writer and author based in Edmonton, Alberta, and Naramata, in the heart of British Columbia’s wine country in the Okanagan Valley. Her work has appeared in publications such as Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, Western Living, Chicago Sun-Times, National Post, Slow Canada, Unlimited, Alberta Venture, enRoute, City Palate, NUVO, UP!, and Alberta Views, among other publications. In 2007, Jennifer was awarded the Canadian Federation of Chefs and Cook’s Sandy Sanderson national food writing award for her contribution to the Canadian food media scene. She has also won Western Canadian Magazine awards as well as National Magazine awards for her contributions to Western Living magazine and Unlimited. Jennifer’s first book, Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and The New Food Revolution will be published in Canada, the US and the UK in February 2012. It has already received the 2011 Dave Greber Freelance Book Award, a Canadian national award that recognizes excellence in social justice writing. She is also the founder and director of the Okanagan Food & Wine Writers Workshop, an annual professional development workshop in British Columbia wine country. She blogs about food and her research trips at http://foodgirl.ca. You can also join her at facebook.com/FoodandtheCity, and Twitter.com/jennifer_ck. Sunday March 25, 2012, 1:30 PM - Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton is the author of The Water Rat of Wanchai and The Disciple of Las Vegas, the first two Ava Lee novels. He has worked as a journalist, a senior executive with the federal government, a diplomat, and a businessman with international links.The latest in the series, "The Wild Beasts of Wuhan" will be released in February 2012. “Imagine a book about a forensic accountant that has tension, suspense, and action . . . When the central character looks like Lucy Liu, kicks like Jackie Chan, and has a travel budget like Donald Trump, the story is anything but boring. The Water Rat of Wanchai is such a beast . . . I look forward to the next one, The Disciple of Las Vegas.” — Montreal Gazette Within eight months of finishing "The Water Rat of Wanchai", Ian had secured a four-book deal from his publisher before the last two books were even read by the publisher! International rights have been sold into the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Germany and worldwide Spanish and French rights. Ian is currently working on the continuation of the Ava Lee series and has already completed books 5 and 6. Ian lives in Burlington, Ontario. Sunday April 29, 2012, 1:30 PM - Anna Marie Sewell Poetic Licence: Read your poetry the way it deserves to be read and access your inner performer using theatrical tools. Your goal in this session of Writers’ Corner is to learn to present your poetry with as much craft and commitment as you put into writing it. Poets at all stages will benefit from these techniques. Bring 3 pieces to workshop. Sunday May 27, 2012, 1:30 PM - Alissa York Alissa York's award-winning short fiction has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, and in the collection, Any Given Power, published by Arbeiter Ring Publishing in 1999. Her first novel, ,Mercy, published by Random House Canada in 2003, was a Canadian bestseller. York's second novel, Effigy, was published by Random House Canada in April 2007, short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. International rights to the book have sold in Holland, Italy, France and the US. York's latest novel, Fauna, is extraordinary. "York does not use Toronto as a mere backdrop; her novel evokes the city with remarkable specificity. The Don Valley is at the centre, with its roaring traffic, winding river, and incongruous wilderness teeming with life. The valley is bordered on one side by the affluent Cabbagetown neighbourhood and a city-run farm, on the other by a Chinatown whose alleys are prime scavenging grounds for raccoons. The story tracks its characters through these neighbourhoods, back and forth across the Riverdale Footbridge, and into outlying areas, creating a picture of Toronto that bears scant resemblance to the city many of us think we know. York pulls off a daring feat by having the animals themselves narrate a few passages, managing a most unsentimental portrayal – these animals are vermin, and it’s a dog-eat-rabbit world out there. But it’s also a world whose connections to literature are strong: Fauna calls to mind works such as Watership Down, The Jungle Book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Wild Animals I Have Known. York’s exceptional novel shows that books, like cities, are enlivened by their wild populations." (Quill and Quire review of "Fauna") Sunday June 24, 2012, 1:30 PM - Matt Prins Instant Books with Matt Prins Have you ever agonized over a sentence, needed chiropractic care for neck and shoulder tension, been unable to finish a story? Have you had any DIY impulses lately? Even if you say no to all of the above, say yes to making an instant book with Matt Prins! A liberating, fun, and surprisingly useful workshop for all writers. All materials provided. See Matt’s work: http://instantbooks.wordpress.com/

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