2005 schedule...

Friday, July 22:

John Pass Fourteen books and chapbooks of John Pass’s poetry have been published and his poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US, the UK and Ireland. In 1988 he won the CIVA Canada Poetry Prize, and has won awards from The League of Canadian Poets, The BC Federation of Writers and BC Cultural Services. He was short-listed in 1992 and 2001 for The Dorothy Livesay Prize. In 2002 he was an editor/mentor at The Banff Centre for The Arts in the Centre’s Writing Studio Program and received a senior arts award from the Canada Council. His most recent book, Water Stair (Oolichan Books, 2000), was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. In 2004 he published a chapbook, nowrite.doc (Leaf Press). His next full-length collection, Stumbling In The Bloom, is due from Oolichan Books in April 2005.

Phil Hall’s first book, Eighteen Poems was published in Mexico City in 1973. Since then he has published eight other books of poems, three chapbooks, and a cassette of labour songs. He has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, the Kootenay School of Writing and a number of colleges. He has been a poet in residence at the University of Western Ontario, the Kingston Writer’s Workshop, The Sage Hill Writing Experience, and elsewhere. Since 1976 he has been a small publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under his Flat Singles Press imprint. He was literary editor at This Magazine for three years in the early 90s, and currently teaches at George Brown College and Seneca College in Toronto. In 2001 his book Trouble Sleeping (Brick Books) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

Jason Dewinetz is the author of four chapbooks of poetry whose writing has appeared in journals across Canada including Grain, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, The Pottersfield Portfolio and Descant. Co-author (with Michael O'Driscoll) of A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press Archive, Jason's first collection of poetry, moving to the clear, was published by NeWest Press in 2002. Jason's chapbook, Géricault's Severed Limbs Paintings, was published by Greenboathouse in 1999.

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Friday, July 29:

Matt Rader is the editor of Mosquito Press and the co-founder of Crash: Vancouver’s Indie Writers Fest. His poems and chapbooks, including his 2003 Greenboathouse chapbook The Land Beyond, have received praise from many quarters, including sub-TERRAIN, Broken Pencil, Geist and This Magazine. In 2004, he was selected for Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. Matt’s first full collection, Miraculous Hours, has just been published by Nightwood Editions.

John Lent is the author of several books of poetry and fiction including Wood Lake Music (Harbour), Frieze, The Face in the Garden, and Monet's Garden (all Thistledown). John's chapbook, Black Horses, Cobalt Suns, was published by Greenboathouse in 2000.

{Book Launch}

Although we couldn't quite get her to the boathouse from her home in Brooklyn, NY, we'll be launching Sina Queyras' new collection, Life - Still & Otherwise on this date.

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Friday, August 5:

Aaron Peck has recently published writing in Echolcation and Open Letter, and the the CBC Radio 3 website. He is currently the Books Editor of Terminal City in Vancouver, where he writes monthly art and book reviews. He frequently works incollaboration with artists in Toronto and Vancouver. He is also the co-author of the film The Zoo Project, holds an MA from York University in English, and is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Twilight Suites (Greenboathouse Books, 2002) and Three Pieces of Glass (above/ground, 2003).

Lance Blomgren is a writer, artist and curator who has recently relocated to Vancouver after ten years in Montreal. He is the author of Walkups (2000), Oasis (2001) and most recently Corner Pieces (2004). He has exhibited text-based projects throughout Canada, as well as in New Mexico, Chicago and Berlin, and has been published in Geist, Terminal City, Spur, Matrix and Ascent magazines. In 1997 his booklet, Liner, won the bpNichol Chapbook Award and this year Corner Pieces was shortlisted for the ReLit Award. Presently Lance is working as the co-director/curator of the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, and is developing a series of projects with the Orange/Brown collective.

 

Friday, August 12:

Joelene Heathcote has an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Published internationally, she has received many awards for writing including ARC Magazine’s Poem of the Year; THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt; and most recently, The Florida Review Editor’s Choice Award. Her book of poetry titled What’s Between Us Can’t Be Heard (Ekstasis Editions, 2002) was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. She is at work on a new collection titled, The Alienation Effect.

Jay Ruzesky's books include Am I Glad to See You (Thistledown), Painting the Yellow House Blue (Anansi), and Writing on the Wall (Outlaw). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Malaspina University-College in Duncan, and is a founding member and editor of Outlaw Editions. Jay's latest book Blue Himalayan Poppies, was published by Nightwood Editions in 2002.

Michael Kenyon is the author of seven books of fiction and two poetry collections, most recently The Stutler (Brick). His fiction and poetry have appeared in many literary magazines. His work has been anthologized in Why I Sing the Blues (Smoking Lung Press), Rip-Rap: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre (Banff Centre Press), New Canadian Gothic (Turnstone), and the Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland & Stewart) among others.

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