2010 Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's BUCWC anthology award winners...

2010 Eleanor Abram Prize for Fiction

Cassie Leigh

2010 Canadian Author Association Prize for Poetry

Emi Morimoto

bookthug - book launch

last friday, a few friends and myself invaded the bookthug book launch at "This Ain't the Rosedale Library." the night featured Karen Mac Cormack, David Dowker, and Steve McCaffery. i have a few photos of the event. the night was soggy and enjoyable.

Steve McCaffery

Steve McCaffery

David Dowker

David Dowker

(unfortunately, i was unable to retrieve the photos of Karen Mac Cormack, sigh)

Canadian Authors in Action...

"Canadian Authors In Action"

Adam Dickinson

John Barta

Jane Garrett-Peat

Keith Inman

Sheila Laundry

Ron Prickett

Malcolm Matthews

Robert Broerse

Eric Schmaltz

Tom Vaine

Jade Alyssa Wallace

Claire Bullen

Several finalists from the library's "Fresh Ink" Creative Writing Competition for Teens

This event is sponsored by the St. Catharines Library and admission is free.

Call Barb Weiler at 905-685-0153 or Diane Andrusko at 905-688-6103 for more information. St. Catharines Library.

lapse; an anthology of creative writing

The launch of 'lapse' was a great success.

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out.

A special thanks to Lindsay Gray for being our photographer for the night.

Here are photos from the evening:

Cassie Leigh in front of Cask 22

Some local enthusiasts

A bump and a growl; A dazed Duncan Griffiths

Marisa Angela Blackburn

Jade Scapillato

Jeremy Colangelo

Amanda Rose Graveline

Stephanie Tingzon

Emi Morimoto

Kris Mills

Justin Emmette Harney

The crowd and James Dean...?

Cassie and Cassondra havin' a read

The crowd at break...

Phil Miletic; new President of the BUCWC

Cassie Leigh

Jade Wallace; new Editor for the BUCWC

Jade Wallace and her accompanying voices

Ed Edmonds; new VP for the BUCWC

Helen Tran; new Editor for the BUCWC

Tom Vaine

Oksana Berda; former Editor for the BUCWC

Robb Ellison; former Treasurer for the BUCWC

Sound Poetry by Two Young Stallions

A giggle and a pop

Poster for this year's launch (many thanks to Demetra Peppas)

Hugs

Eric Schmaltz

The Next Slam...

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010, Strega Cafe (19 King Street, St. Catharines)
7:00 - 9:00pm

The upcoming installment of our monthly contest has been certified organic by In The Soil : Niagara's Homegrown Arts Festival, running April 15th through 24th. Check out their website for details on shows and events. It's sure to be an amazing ten days for arts and culture!

For more information about In The Soil check out event details here.

Futureale

My article "The Up and Coming Literary Niagara" has been featured in the latest issue of Futureale magazine.

You can check it out here.

The official poster for the launch of

'lapse'

Poster Cred to Demetra Peppas