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Congratulations to Corinna Chong
Congratulations to Corinna Chong, Creative Writing MA, 2010 on the acceptance of her thesis Belinda's Rings for publication by NeWest Books. Also congratulations on her faculty appointment to Okanagan College where she joins UNB Creative Writing graduate, Sean Johnston.
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Congratulations to Shane Rhodes
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes, Creative Writing MA, 1998 on winning the Gold Medal for Poetry in this year's National Magazine Awards.
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Congratulations to David Hickey
Congratulations to David Hickey, Creative Writing MA, 2003 on the publicationof his second collection of poetry: Open Air Bindery
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Reading Series: John Barton, Anne Compton, Allan Cooper and Ross Leckie
This reading will bid farewell to our 2010/2011 writer-in-residence,
John Barton, and launch The Best Canadian Poetry 2010 with esteemed
poets Anne Compton, Allan Cooper and Ross Leckie.
John Barton
for UNB’s 2010/2011 writer-in-residence, this will be a farewell
reading after a generous tenure. John Barton is a prolific poet with
nine collections to his name. He is also editor of The Malahat Review,
and has worked extensively co-editing Arc. He is the recipient of the
Ottawa Book Award and has been awarded the Archibald Lampman Award three
times. In his most recent collection, Hymn, “the journey is as much
geographic and aesthetic as it is carnal and emotional.”
Anne Compton
An accomplished Maritime poet, Anne Compton has received the
Governor General’s Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the National
Magazine Award for Poetry. She will be reading in support of the launch
of Best Canadian Poetry 2010. Her most recent collection, asking
questions indoors and out has also met with high praise: “Spirit-haunted
yet critical, Compton is intermediary here in a complex poetic
argument, over which she presides with a confidence ruled by passionate
intellect.”
Allan Cooper
is a poet, musician and publisher living in a small village on the
Bay of Fundy. He has published over 10 books of poetry. His most recent
collection, entitled The Alma Elegies, reproduces his very first
collection. The initial publication's reflection on the village of Alma,
New Brunswick is extended to the present-day, including new poems as
well. Allan Cooper is among the distinguished poets who appear in The
Best Canadian Poetry 2010 collection.
Ross Leckie
as Director of the Creative Writing M.A. program at UNB, the Editor
of The Fiddlehead and a former president of The League of Canadian
Poets, Ross Leckie has made significant contributions to the poetry
community of Canada. He is an esteemed poet of three collections of
work, the most recent being Gravity’s Plumb Line from Gaspereau Press.
Ross will be reading some of his latest work in support of The Best
Canadian Poetry 2010 launch.
Please join us for the final UNB Reading Series event of the semester on Tuesday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in the East Gallery of Memorial Hall!
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Reading Series: Valerie Compton
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series Thursday, April 7th at 8pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring:
Valerie Compton has been widely published in literary journals. Her work has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and the Island Literary Award. Her first novel, Tide Road, deals with the emotional undertow that follows a daughter’s disappearance. Of her work, author Richard Cumyn exclaims: “Valerie Compton is the antidote to willful amnesia, an astonishingly assured new voice delivering the truth with a kind of fierce economy.”
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Reading Series: Annabel Lyon
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Tuesday, Mar. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Hall, Main Auditorium; featuring: Annabel Lyon
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Reading Series: Aurian Haller
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Monday, Mar. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring: Aurian Haller. For more information click here.
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Congratulations to Holly Luhning
Congratulations to Holly Luhning, Creative Writing MA, 2002 on the publication of her novel Quiver. HaperCollinis in Canada and Pegasus in the United States.
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Reading Series: Richard Cumyn
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring: Richard Cumyn
In his new book, The Young in Their Country, Cumyn presents a range of stories about the ways youth break the expectations of the adult world, how they are both dangerous and endangered.
Steven Heighton notes that Richard Cumyn is "one of our finest story writers: exacting, surprising, deftly attuned both to language and to character, tough-minded and large-hearted at the same time—often within the same sentence."
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Reading Series: George Sipos & M. Travis Lane
George Sipos and M. Travis Lane, will also be reading from their latest collections of poetry, The Glassblowers and The All Nighter’s Radio. This event will also take place at Memorial Hall East Gallery on Tuesday, February 8th at 8pm.
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Reading Series: Sharon McCartney
Sharon McCartney's most recent work, For and Against, has met with high praise for its vivid, visceral quality. Of her work, George Elliott Clarke has said "You don't read these poems, you feel them: hammer in the head, shod foot on the throat, stiletto in the heart."
McCartney's collections of poetry include Under the Abdominal Wall, Karenin Sings the Blues, and The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is the winner of the Acorn Plantos People's Award for Poetry and has served as a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead.
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Reading Series: Chris Hutchinson and Keith Oatley
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Kwame Dawes on PBS Newshour
Kwame Dawes, MA Creative Writing, PhD English, 1992 was featured on PBS Newshour speaking about his reporting and poetry on AIDS in Haiti. He has been working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Congratulations: Shane Rhodes
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes Creative Writing MA, 1998 on his appointment as Poetry Editor at ARC: Canada's Poetry Magazine
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UNB Reading Series
Katherine Govier is the author of nine acclaimed novels and three short story collections. Her new novel, The Ghostbrush, tells an imaginative story of Oei, a mid-nineteenth-century Japanese printmaker who worked with her father. Very little is known of her now, nor of her works, but Govier brings the mystery of this character to life.
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Congratulations: Matt Heiti
Congratulations to Matt Heiti Creative Writing MA, 2010 on winning the $3,000.00 RBC Tarragon Under 30 National Playwriting Competition for I Drag My Coffin through the Lonesome North The play will be read at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto Thursday, November 25 at 8pm
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Congratulations: To Kristel Thornell
Congratulations to Kristel Thornell, Creative Writing MA 2002, on the publication of his first novel in New Zealand and Australia, Night Street. Winner of the 20,000 AUS The Australian/Vogel
--------------------------UNB Reading Series
The UNB Reading Series is proud to welcome accomplished author Joan Thomas. She is winner of the 2009 regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel and Amazon.ca First Novel Award recipient for Reading by Lightning, her first work of fiction. Joan Thomas will be reading from her newest and highly anticipated book, Curiosity. The reading will be held Thursday, Nov. 4th at Memorial Hall's East Gallery.
Hope to see you all there!
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The Official Launch of Tammy Armstrong's The Scare in the Crow
Goose Lane Editions will be launching The Scare in the Crow on Monday, November 1, 2010, at 7pm at Wilser's Room, 366 Queen Street Fredericton, NB. Books will be made available for purchase, and Tammy will be pleased to autograph your copy.
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UNB Reading Series
Past and present Giller Prize Finalists Michael Helm and Alexander MacLeod will be reading from their newest works this week at the Alumni Memorial Lounge on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. Hope to see you there
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UNB Fredericton's Writer in Residence
Are you a writer living in or near Fredericton or do live elsewhere in New Brunswick and will be coming for a visit to Fredericton? Would you be interested in receiving free feedback on your writing? Then consider making an appointment with UNB Fredericton's 2010/2011 writer-in-residence John Barton. John is an award winning poet and current editor of The Malahat Review. He welcomes writers at all stages of their careers to meet with him to discuss their work or other writing concerns. Meetings with him are by appointment only.
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-5pm, Thursdays 10am-2pm
Email jbarton@unb.ca or phone (506) 452-6356.
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Poetry Weekend
The annual poetry weekend is upon us! Once again UNB Fredericton welcomes many acclaimed Canadian and local poets at this weekend long poetry festival. Come here many of your favorite poets read their work. Featured poets such as John Steffler, Sue Gillis, Anne Compton, Brian Bartlett, Richard Lemm, David Zieroth, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Shane Neilson, Sharon McCartney, Katia Grubisic, matt robinson, Vanessa Moeller, Michael deBeyer, James Langer, Tammy Armstrong -just to name a few- will be reading this weekend! Come and join us for a wonderful time.
Readings take place at UNB Fredericton, Memorial Hall on October 2nd and 3rd. Six separate readings will be held from 11am, 2pm, 8pm. We'd love to see you there!
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Congratulations: To Charmaine Cadeau
For her tenure-track position at High Point University in North Carolina. Charmaine has a nice blend of literature and creative writing courses to teach.
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UNB Reading Series
The University of New Brunswick Fredericton would like to invite you to a literary reading by acclaimed writers John Barton and David Bergen.
John Barton, the 2010/11 writer-in-residence, author of eight poetry collections and 2003 CBC Literary Award and the 2006 National Magazine Award winner will be reading from his newest collection: Hymn.
David Bergen, author of celebrated novels The Case of Lena S. and The Retreat, and Giller Prize winner for his novel The Time in Between, will be reading from his newest work of fiction: The Matter with Morris.
This event will be held Thursday, September 16th at 7pm in the West Gallery at Memorial Hall on the UNB Fredericton campus. We would be pleased to have you join us!
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The Fiddlehead Wins National Magazine Award
The National Magazine Awards winners have been announced and The Fiddlehead is pleased to say all five of its nominees did well.
In the Fiction category Steven Heighton's story, "Shared Room on Union" won gold. And "Back to Disney" by Jeff Park and "The Spanish Hour" by J. M. Villaverde were honourable mentions. All three stories were published in The Fiddlehead 240 (Summer 2009).
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In the Poetry category honourable mentions were given to Anne Compton’s three poems, "Stepping Off," "It starts with names," and "We waited" from The Fiddlehead 239 (Spring 2009) and to Vanessa Moeller’s poetry sequence,"Abandoned Postcards Found in Hotel Room 464," from The Fiddlehead 241 (Autumn 2009). Congratulations to everyone!
--------------------------Recent Writer-in-Residence News
Karen Solie, WIR 2006-07,has won for Pigeon, her new collection of poetry:
- The Griffin Prize for Poetry (now Canada's most prestigious award for poetry)
- The Pat Lowther Prize for the Best Poetry Book in Canada Written by a Woman
- The Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry
She still speaks very warmly of her time in Fredericton
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Congratulations: To Steve McOrmond
Steve McOrmond, Creative Writing 1997 on the publication of his third book of poetry The Good News about Armageddon
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Congratulations to James Langer
James, The Fiddlehead's poetry co-editor, won the 2010 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Best First Poetry Book for his collection Gun Dogs (House of Anansi Press)
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Congratulations: To James Arthur
Congratulations to James Arthur, Creative Writing MA, 2001, on the acceptance of his first poetry book by Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon is one of the five best poetry publishers in the US.
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Congratulations: To Triny Finaly
Triny Finlay,
Creative Writing MA,
2002
UNB faculty member on the publication of her collection of
poetry
Histories
Haunt Us Launch for the book to take place at Alden
Nowlan House (grad house) Thursday, June 17, 8pm
Congratulations: To Antony Christie
Congratulations
to Antony Christie (Creative Writing MA,
2002) on the publication of his second book of poetry Of Love and
Drowning. Antony
will be signing his book in Fredericton NB at Chapters on April 20 2010.
Reading Series: Margaret Sweatman
The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to a
literary
reading by acclaimed Canadian writer Margaret Sweatman. She will read
from her latest novel, The Players.
This witty historical novel examines the high-stakes lives of actors
and probes the nature o performance.
Sweatman is the author of
three previous novels: Fox, Sam & Angie, and When Alice
Lay Down With Peter.
The
reading will be held on Tuesday,
February 9th at 8:00pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge on the
University of New Brunswick's Fredericton campus.
Congratulations to Corinna Chong
Congratulations to Corinna Chong, Creative Writing MA, 2010 on the acceptance of her thesis Belinda's Rings for publication by NeWest Books. Also congratulations on her faculty appointment to Okanagan College where she joins UNB Creative Writing graduate, Sean Johnston.
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Congratulations to Shane Rhodes
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes, Creative Writing MA, 1998 on winning the Gold Medal for Poetry in this year's National Magazine Awards.
-------------------------
Congratulations to David Hickey
Congratulations to David Hickey, Creative Writing MA, 2003 on the publicationof his second collection of poetry: Open Air Bindery
-------------------------
Reading Series: John Barton, Anne Compton, Allan Cooper and Ross Leckie
This reading will bid farewell to our 2010/2011 writer-in-residence,
John Barton, and launch The Best Canadian Poetry 2010 with esteemed
poets Anne Compton, Allan Cooper and Ross Leckie.
John Barton
for UNB’s 2010/2011 writer-in-residence, this will be a farewell
reading after a generous tenure. John Barton is a prolific poet with
nine collections to his name. He is also editor of The Malahat Review,
and has worked extensively co-editing Arc. He is the recipient of the
Ottawa Book Award and has been awarded the Archibald Lampman Award three
times. In his most recent collection, Hymn, “the journey is as much
geographic and aesthetic as it is carnal and emotional.”
Anne Compton
An accomplished Maritime poet, Anne Compton has received the
Governor General’s Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the National
Magazine Award for Poetry. She will be reading in support of the launch
of Best Canadian Poetry 2010. Her most recent collection, asking
questions indoors and out has also met with high praise: “Spirit-haunted
yet critical, Compton is intermediary here in a complex poetic
argument, over which she presides with a confidence ruled by passionate
intellect.”
Allan Cooper
is a poet, musician and publisher living in a small village on the
Bay of Fundy. He has published over 10 books of poetry. His most recent
collection, entitled The Alma Elegies, reproduces his very first
collection. The initial publication's reflection on the village of Alma,
New Brunswick is extended to the present-day, including new poems as
well. Allan Cooper is among the distinguished poets who appear in The
Best Canadian Poetry 2010 collection.
Ross Leckie
as Director of the Creative Writing M.A. program at UNB, the Editor
of The Fiddlehead and a former president of The League of Canadian
Poets, Ross Leckie has made significant contributions to the poetry
community of Canada. He is an esteemed poet of three collections of
work, the most recent being Gravity’s Plumb Line from Gaspereau Press.
Ross will be reading some of his latest work in support of The Best
Canadian Poetry 2010 launch.
Please join us for the final UNB Reading Series event of the semester on Tuesday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in the East Gallery of Memorial Hall!
-------------------------
Reading Series: Valerie Compton
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series Thursday, April 7th at 8pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring:
Valerie Compton has been widely published in literary journals. Her work has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and the Island Literary Award. Her first novel, Tide Road, deals with the emotional undertow that follows a daughter’s disappearance. Of her work, author Richard Cumyn exclaims: “Valerie Compton is the antidote to willful amnesia, an astonishingly assured new voice delivering the truth with a kind of fierce economy.”
-------------------------
Reading Series: Annabel Lyon
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Tuesday, Mar. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Hall, Main Auditorium; featuring: Annabel Lyon
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Reading Series: Aurian Haller
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Monday, Mar. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring: Aurian Haller. For more information click here.
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Congratulations to Holly Luhning
Congratulations to Holly Luhning, Creative Writing MA, 2002 on the publication of her novel Quiver. HaperCollinis in Canada and Pegasus in the United States.
--------------------------
Reading Series: Richard Cumyn
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring: Richard Cumyn
In his new book, The Young in Their Country, Cumyn presents a range of stories about the ways youth break the expectations of the adult world, how they are both dangerous and endangered.
Steven Heighton notes that Richard Cumyn is "one of our finest story writers: exacting, surprising, deftly attuned both to language and to character, tough-minded and large-hearted at the same time—often within the same sentence."
--------------------------
--------------------------
Reading Series: George Sipos & M. Travis Lane
George Sipos and M. Travis Lane, will also be reading from their latest collections of poetry, The Glassblowers and The All Nighter’s Radio. This event will also take place at Memorial Hall East Gallery on Tuesday, February 8th at 8pm.
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--------------------------
Reading Series: Sharon McCartney
Sharon McCartney's most recent work, For and Against, has met with high praise for its vivid, visceral quality. Of her work, George Elliott Clarke has said "You don't read these poems, you feel them: hammer in the head, shod foot on the throat, stiletto in the heart."
McCartney's collections of poetry include Under the Abdominal Wall, Karenin Sings the Blues, and The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is the winner of the Acorn Plantos People's Award for Poetry and has served as a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead.
--------------------------
Reading Series: Chris Hutchinson and Keith Oatley
--------------------------
Kwame Dawes on PBS Newshour
Kwame Dawes, MA Creative Writing, PhD English, 1992 was featured on PBS Newshour speaking about his reporting and poetry on AIDS in Haiti. He has been working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
--------------------------
Congratulations: Shane Rhodes
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes Creative Writing MA, 1998 on his appointment as Poetry Editor at ARC: Canada's Poetry Magazine
--------------------------
UNB Reading Series
Katherine Govier is the author of nine acclaimed novels and three short story collections. Her new novel, The Ghostbrush, tells an imaginative story of Oei, a mid-nineteenth-century Japanese printmaker who worked with her father. Very little is known of her now, nor of her works, but Govier brings the mystery of this character to life.
--------------------------
Congratulations: Matt Heiti
Congratulations to Matt Heiti Creative Writing MA, 2010 on winning the $3,000.00 RBC Tarragon Under 30 National Playwriting Competition for I Drag My Coffin through the Lonesome North The play will be read at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto Thursday, November 25 at 8pm
--------------------------
Congratulations: To Kristel Thornell
Congratulations to Kristel Thornell, Creative Writing MA 2002, on the publication of his first novel in New Zealand and Australia, Night Street. Winner of the 20,000 AUS The Australian/Vogel
--------------------------UNB Reading Series
The UNB Reading Series is proud to welcome accomplished author Joan Thomas. She is winner of the 2009 regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel and Amazon.ca First Novel Award recipient for Reading by Lightning, her first work of fiction. Joan Thomas will be reading from her newest and highly anticipated book, Curiosity. The reading will be held Thursday, Nov. 4th at Memorial Hall's East Gallery.
Hope to see you all there!
--------------------------
The Official Launch of Tammy Armstrong's The Scare in the Crow
Goose Lane Editions will be launching The Scare in the Crow on Monday, November 1, 2010, at 7pm at Wilser's Room, 366 Queen Street Fredericton, NB. Books will be made available for purchase, and Tammy will be pleased to autograph your copy.
--------------------------
UNB Reading Series
Past and present Giller Prize Finalists Michael Helm and Alexander MacLeod will be reading from their newest works this week at the Alumni Memorial Lounge on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. Hope to see you there
--------------------------
UNB Fredericton's Writer in Residence
Are you a writer living in or near Fredericton or do live elsewhere in New Brunswick and will be coming for a visit to Fredericton? Would you be interested in receiving free feedback on your writing? Then consider making an appointment with UNB Fredericton's 2010/2011 writer-in-residence John Barton. John is an award winning poet and current editor of The Malahat Review. He welcomes writers at all stages of their careers to meet with him to discuss their work or other writing concerns. Meetings with him are by appointment only.
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-5pm, Thursdays 10am-2pm
Email jbarton@unb.ca or phone (506) 452-6356.
--------------------------
Poetry Weekend
The annual poetry weekend is upon us! Once again UNB Fredericton welcomes many acclaimed Canadian and local poets at this weekend long poetry festival. Come here many of your favorite poets read their work. Featured poets such as John Steffler, Sue Gillis, Anne Compton, Brian Bartlett, Richard Lemm, David Zieroth, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Shane Neilson, Sharon McCartney, Katia Grubisic, matt robinson, Vanessa Moeller, Michael deBeyer, James Langer, Tammy Armstrong -just to name a few- will be reading this weekend! Come and join us for a wonderful time.
Readings take place at UNB Fredericton, Memorial Hall on October 2nd and 3rd. Six separate readings will be held from 11am, 2pm, 8pm. We'd love to see you there!
--------------------------
Congratulations: To Charmaine Cadeau
For her tenure-track position at High Point University in North Carolina. Charmaine has a nice blend of literature and creative writing courses to teach.
--------------------------
UNB Reading Series
The University of New Brunswick Fredericton would like to invite you to a literary reading by acclaimed writers John Barton and David Bergen.
John Barton, the 2010/11 writer-in-residence, author of eight poetry collections and 2003 CBC Literary Award and the 2006 National Magazine Award winner will be reading from his newest collection: Hymn.
David Bergen, author of celebrated novels The Case of Lena S. and The Retreat, and Giller Prize winner for his novel The Time in Between, will be reading from his newest work of fiction: The Matter with Morris.
This event will be held Thursday, September 16th at 7pm in the West Gallery at Memorial Hall on the UNB Fredericton campus. We would be pleased to have you join us!
--------------------------
The Fiddlehead Wins National Magazine Award
The National Magazine Awards winners have been announced and The Fiddlehead is pleased to say all five of its nominees did well.
In the Fiction category Steven Heighton's story, "Shared Room on Union" won gold. And "Back to Disney" by Jeff Park and "The Spanish Hour" by J. M. Villaverde were honourable mentions. All three stories were published in The Fiddlehead 240 (Summer 2009).
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In the Poetry category honourable mentions were given to Anne Compton’s three poems, "Stepping Off," "It starts with names," and "We waited" from The Fiddlehead 239 (Spring 2009) and to Vanessa Moeller’s poetry sequence,"Abandoned Postcards Found in Hotel Room 464," from The Fiddlehead 241 (Autumn 2009). Congratulations to everyone!
--------------------------Recent Writer-in-Residence News
Karen Solie, WIR 2006-07,has won for Pigeon, her new collection of poetry:
- The Griffin Prize for Poetry (now Canada's most prestigious award for poetry)
- The Pat Lowther Prize for the Best Poetry Book in Canada Written by a Woman
- The Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry
She still speaks very warmly of her time in Fredericton
--------------------------
Congratulations: To Steve McOrmond
Steve McOrmond, Creative Writing 1997 on the publication of his third book of poetry The Good News about Armageddon
--------------------------
Congratulations to James Langer
James, The Fiddlehead's poetry co-editor, won the 2010 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Best First Poetry Book for his collection Gun Dogs (House of Anansi Press)
--------------------------
Congratulations: To James Arthur
Congratulations to James Arthur, Creative Writing MA, 2001, on the acceptance of his first poetry book by Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon is one of the five best poetry publishers in the US.
--------------------------
Congratulations to Corinna Chong
Congratulations to Corinna Chong, Creative Writing MA, 2010 on the acceptance of her thesis Belinda's Rings for publication by NeWest Books. Also congratulations on her faculty appointment to Okanagan College where she joins UNB Creative Writing graduate, Sean Johnston.
-------------------------
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes, Creative Writing MA, 1998 on winning the Gold Medal for Poetry in this year's National Magazine Awards.
-------------------------
Congratulations to David Hickey
Congratulations to David Hickey, Creative Writing MA, 2003 on the publicationof his second collection of poetry: Open Air Bindery
-------------------------
Reading Series: John Barton, Anne Compton, Allan Cooper and Ross Leckie
This reading will bid farewell to our 2010/2011 writer-in-residence,
John Barton, and launch The Best Canadian Poetry 2010 with esteemed
poets Anne Compton, Allan Cooper and Ross Leckie.
John Barton
for UNB’s 2010/2011 writer-in-residence, this will be a farewell
reading after a generous tenure. John Barton is a prolific poet with
nine collections to his name. He is also editor of The Malahat Review,
and has worked extensively co-editing Arc. He is the recipient of the
Ottawa Book Award and has been awarded the Archibald Lampman Award three
times. In his most recent collection, Hymn, “the journey is as much
geographic and aesthetic as it is carnal and emotional.”
Anne Compton
An accomplished Maritime poet, Anne Compton has received the
Governor General’s Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the National
Magazine Award for Poetry. She will be reading in support of the launch
of Best Canadian Poetry 2010. Her most recent collection, asking
questions indoors and out has also met with high praise: “Spirit-haunted
yet critical, Compton is intermediary here in a complex poetic
argument, over which she presides with a confidence ruled by passionate
intellect.”
Allan Cooper
is a poet, musician and publisher living in a small village on the
Bay of Fundy. He has published over 10 books of poetry. His most recent
collection, entitled The Alma Elegies, reproduces his very first
collection. The initial publication's reflection on the village of Alma,
New Brunswick is extended to the present-day, including new poems as
well. Allan Cooper is among the distinguished poets who appear in The
Best Canadian Poetry 2010 collection.
Ross Leckie
as Director of the Creative Writing M.A. program at UNB, the Editor
of The Fiddlehead and a former president of The League of Canadian
Poets, Ross Leckie has made significant contributions to the poetry
community of Canada. He is an esteemed poet of three collections of
work, the most recent being Gravity’s Plumb Line from Gaspereau Press.
Ross will be reading some of his latest work in support of The Best
Canadian Poetry 2010 launch.
Please join us for the final UNB Reading Series event of the semester on Tuesday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in the East Gallery of Memorial Hall!
-------------------------
Reading Series: Valerie Compton
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series Thursday, April 7th at 8pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring:
Valerie Compton has been widely published in literary journals. Her work has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and the Island Literary Award. Her first novel, Tide Road, deals with the emotional undertow that follows a daughter’s disappearance. Of her work, author Richard Cumyn exclaims: “Valerie Compton is the antidote to willful amnesia, an astonishingly assured new voice delivering the truth with a kind of fierce economy.”
-------------------------
Reading Series: Annabel Lyon
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Tuesday, Mar. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Hall, Main Auditorium; featuring: Annabel Lyon
--------------------------
Reading Series: Aurian Haller
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Monday, Mar. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring: Aurian Haller. For more information click here.
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--------------------------
Congratulations to Holly Luhning
Congratulations to Holly Luhning, Creative Writing MA, 2002 on the publication of her novel Quiver. HaperCollinis in Canada and Pegasus in the United States.
--------------------------
Reading Series: Richard Cumyn
Please join us for the UNB Reading Series on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Lounge, featuring: Richard Cumyn
In his new book, The Young in Their Country, Cumyn presents a range of stories about the ways youth break the expectations of the adult world, how they are both dangerous and endangered.
Steven Heighton notes that Richard Cumyn is "one of our finest story writers: exacting, surprising, deftly attuned both to language and to character, tough-minded and large-hearted at the same time—often within the same sentence."
--------------------------
--------------------------
Reading Series: George Sipos & M. Travis Lane
George Sipos and M. Travis Lane, will also be reading from their latest collections of poetry, The Glassblowers and The All Nighter’s Radio. This event will also take place at Memorial Hall East Gallery on Tuesday, February 8th at 8pm.
--------------------------
--------------------------
Reading Series: Sharon McCartney
Sharon McCartney's most recent work, For and Against, has met with high praise for its vivid, visceral quality. Of her work, George Elliott Clarke has said "You don't read these poems, you feel them: hammer in the head, shod foot on the throat, stiletto in the heart."
McCartney's collections of poetry include Under the Abdominal Wall, Karenin Sings the Blues, and The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is the winner of the Acorn Plantos People's Award for Poetry and has served as a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead.
--------------------------
Reading Series: Chris Hutchinson and Keith Oatley
--------------------------
Kwame Dawes on PBS Newshour
Kwame Dawes, MA Creative Writing, PhD English, 1992 was featured on PBS Newshour speaking about his reporting and poetry on AIDS in Haiti. He has been working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
--------------------------
Congratulations: Shane Rhodes
Congratulations to Shane Rhodes Creative Writing MA, 1998 on his appointment as Poetry Editor at ARC: Canada's Poetry Magazine
--------------------------
UNB Reading Series
Katherine Govier is the author of nine acclaimed novels and three short story collections. Her new novel, The Ghostbrush, tells an imaginative story of Oei, a mid-nineteenth-century Japanese printmaker who worked with her father. Very little is known of her now, nor of her works, but Govier brings the mystery of this character to life.
--------------------------
Congratulations: Matt Heiti
Congratulations to Matt Heiti Creative Writing MA, 2010 on winning the $3,000.00 RBC Tarragon Under 30 National Playwriting Competition for I Drag My Coffin through the Lonesome North The play will be read at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto Thursday, November 25 at 8pm
--------------------------
Congratulations: To Kristel Thornell
Congratulations to Kristel Thornell, Creative Writing MA 2002, on the publication of his first novel in New Zealand and Australia, Night Street. Winner of the 20,000 AUS The Australian/Vogel
--------------------------UNB Reading Series
The UNB Reading Series is proud to welcome accomplished author Joan Thomas. She is winner of the 2009 regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel and Amazon.ca First Novel Award recipient for Reading by Lightning, her first work of fiction. Joan Thomas will be reading from her newest and highly anticipated book, Curiosity. The reading will be held Thursday, Nov. 4th at Memorial Hall's East Gallery.
Hope to see you all there!
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The Official Launch of Tammy Armstrong's The Scare in the Crow
Goose Lane Editions will be launching The Scare in the Crow on Monday, November 1, 2010, at 7pm at Wilser's Room, 366 Queen Street Fredericton, NB. Books will be made available for purchase, and Tammy will be pleased to autograph your copy.
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UNB Reading Series
Past and present Giller Prize Finalists Michael Helm and Alexander MacLeod will be reading from their newest works this week at the Alumni Memorial Lounge on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. Hope to see you there
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UNB Fredericton's Writer in Residence
Are you a writer living in or near Fredericton or do live elsewhere in New Brunswick and will be coming for a visit to Fredericton? Would you be interested in receiving free feedback on your writing? Then consider making an appointment with UNB Fredericton's 2010/2011 writer-in-residence John Barton. John is an award winning poet and current editor of The Malahat Review. He welcomes writers at all stages of their careers to meet with him to discuss their work or other writing concerns. Meetings with him are by appointment only.
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-5pm, Thursdays 10am-2pm
Email jbarton@unb.ca or phone (506) 452-6356.
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Poetry Weekend
The annual poetry weekend is upon us! Once again UNB Fredericton welcomes many acclaimed Canadian and local poets at this weekend long poetry festival. Come here many of your favorite poets read their work. Featured poets such as John Steffler, Sue Gillis, Anne Compton, Brian Bartlett, Richard Lemm, David Zieroth, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Shane Neilson, Sharon McCartney, Katia Grubisic, matt robinson, Vanessa Moeller, Michael deBeyer, James Langer, Tammy Armstrong -just to name a few- will be reading this weekend! Come and join us for a wonderful time.
Readings take place at UNB Fredericton, Memorial Hall on October 2nd and 3rd. Six separate readings will be held from 11am, 2pm, 8pm. We'd love to see you there!
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Congratulations: To Charmaine Cadeau
For her tenure-track position at High Point University in North Carolina. Charmaine has a nice blend of literature and creative writing courses to teach.
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UNB Reading Series
The University of New Brunswick Fredericton would like to invite you to a literary reading by acclaimed writers John Barton and David Bergen.
John Barton, the 2010/11 writer-in-residence, author of eight poetry collections and 2003 CBC Literary Award and the 2006 National Magazine Award winner will be reading from his newest collection: Hymn.
David Bergen, author of celebrated novels The Case of Lena S. and The Retreat, and Giller Prize winner for his novel The Time in Between, will be reading from his newest work of fiction: The Matter with Morris.
This event will be held Thursday, September 16th at 7pm in the West Gallery at Memorial Hall on the UNB Fredericton campus. We would be pleased to have you join us!
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The Fiddlehead Wins National Magazine Award
The National Magazine Awards winners have been announced and The Fiddlehead is pleased to say all five of its nominees did well.
In the Fiction category Steven Heighton's story, "Shared Room on Union" won gold. And "Back to Disney" by Jeff Park and "The Spanish Hour" by J. M. Villaverde were honourable mentions. All three stories were published in The Fiddlehead 240 (Summer 2009).
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In the Poetry category honourable mentions were given to Anne Compton’s three poems, "Stepping Off," "It starts with names," and "We waited" from The Fiddlehead 239 (Spring 2009) and to Vanessa Moeller’s poetry sequence,"Abandoned Postcards Found in Hotel Room 464," from The Fiddlehead 241 (Autumn 2009). Congratulations to everyone!
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Karen Solie, WIR 2006-07,has won for Pigeon, her new collection of poetry:
- The Griffin Prize for Poetry (now Canada's most prestigious award for poetry)
- The Pat Lowther Prize for the Best Poetry Book in Canada Written by a Woman
- The Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry
She still speaks very warmly of her time in Fredericton
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Congratulations: To Steve McOrmond
Steve McOrmond, Creative Writing 1997 on the publication of his third book of poetry The Good News about Armageddon
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Congratulations to James Langer
James, The Fiddlehead's poetry co-editor, won the 2010 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Best First Poetry Book for his collection Gun Dogs (House of Anansi Press)
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Congratulations: To James Arthur
Congratulations to James Arthur, Creative Writing MA, 2001, on the acceptance of his first poetry book by Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon is one of the five best poetry publishers in the US.
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