Events
Literary Victoria: November 18-24, 2013
A different literary event most days of the week! Don't miss out!
Tuesday, November 19
Russell Books Presents
At the Mike with Diana Davidson and Pauline Holdstock
7:00pm at Russell Books (basement)
734 Fort Street
Diana Davidson's novel, Pilgrimage, opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, "Spirit Lake" has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in serach of tradition, redemption, and miracles.
Pauline Holdstock's novel, Into the Heart of the Country, takes the reader deep into unexplored territory in eighteenth-century Canada. Appearing only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson’s Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the company’s Prince of Wales Fort and served as companions to the European traders -- and whose survival was bound, for better or worse, to the fortunes of those men.
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Pauline is a judge for the Malahat's upcoming Novella Prize contest. Read her biography, and those of the other judges, on our website.
Wednesday, November 20
Open Word: Readings & Ideas with Carmen Aguirre
Reading 1 and interview with Kevin Kerr: Open Space, 510 Fort Street
Reading 2: Thursday, November 21, 8:50 a.m., University of Victoria, Human and Social Development (HSD) Building, Room A240
Admission by donation
Open Space, in partnership with the University of Victoria Department of Writing, will host Carmen Aguirre as part of its literary series Open Word: Readings and Ideas. She will read from her new book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, at Open Space on Wednesday, November 20, at 7:30 p.m., followed by an interview by local writer Kevin Kerr. Books, beer, and wine will be for sale.
Aguirre will also read on Thursday, November 21, at 8:50 a.m., University of Victoria, HSD Building, Room A240.
Visit the Open Space website for more information on this and future events.
Thursday, November 21
This Side of West Editors Reading
6:30pm, Michele Pujol Room, SUB
This Side of West is the annual undergraduate literary journal of the Writing Students Union at the University of Victoria. Join this year's editors as they read portions of their work in four categories: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Drama.
In partnership with This Side of West, the Malahat will be offering student subscription rates to readers and attendees, and will be selling copies of The Malahat Review at a highly discounted rate.
Friday, November 22
Planet Earth Poetry Series
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Moka House, 103-1633 Hillside Avenue
$3 cover
This week's Planet Earth Poetry features Wendy Morton and Sandra Lynn Lynxleg. Marilyn is a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright; Dennis is a Canadian editor, fiction writer, and poet. Wendy is the founder of Canada’s Random Acts of Poetry project, and was the recipient of the 2012 Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Contribution Award from the League of Canadian Poets; Sandra has been published in Fiddlehead, Leaf Press, Our Canada Magazine, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, and Ricepaper Magazine.
Sign up for the Open Mic at 7:00 pm!
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CONTEST
DEADLINES
Far Horizons
Award for Short Fiction
Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
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