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UPCOMING EVENTS
2011-12 Brown Bag Lunch Series
The Brown Bag Lunch Series will return in Fall 2012. Check back for updates.
The public, students and University staff are cordially invited to attend these noon-hour readings, to share coffee, cookies and their thoughts with the guest author, and enter for a chance to win a fabulous door prize. The sessions are informal, fun, educational and best of all free to attend. The readings will take place in the Student Lounge of the Arts & Convocation hall building. Click on the above picture for a brochure.
NEWS
2012 Henry Kreisel Commemorative Lecture
by Lawrence Hill
Read the recent interview between Lawrence Hill and the Edmonton Journal's Books Editor, Richard Helm, here:
"Chilling effect of banning, burning underestimated, author says"
Watch the video of Lawrence Hill's lecture:
TD National Reading Summit III:
A Reading Canada
When: May 2 - 4, 2012
Where: Vancouver, BC
Join the discussion and help shape a National Reading Plan that will encourage, support and promote the joy of reading across Canada.
TD National Reading Summit III is the third and final summit in the series. The summit will kick-off with an exciting free public event at the Wong Theatre inside Goldcorp Centre for the Performing Arts, with keynote speaker, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. During this summit attendees will review a draft reading plan and participate in facilitated group discussions on how best to shape this plan and move it forward as a grassroots movement to make reading a priority in Canada. Throughout the two days dynamic speakers and panel discussions will provide food for thought. Work has already begun on a campaign to increase awareness of reading for the joy of it. This will be unveiled at the TD National Reading Summit III.
There are four ways to be involved in the summit:
- Attend the summit in person - $250 regular and $100 student, plus HST
- Organize your own satellite location at your institution - $200 per location plus HST (includes facilitation training kit)
- Participate via webcast - $100 plus HST
- Attend via satellite location - $75 per person
Satellite Locations: Toronto and Montreal (Watch for an Edmonton location soon!)
Click here for information, to view the detailed programme and to register.
Writer in Exile
Check back later for updates.
PUBLICATIONS
Eighteen Bridges
The fourth issue of Eighteen Bridges is now available!
Eighteen Bridges was featured in the Globe and Mail weekly roundup of best magazine reads, "On the Stand"
Click to here to subscribe online
Print copies can also be purchased at the following locations:
- U of A Bookstore, 166 Students' Union Building, 8900 - 114 Street
- Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Avenue
- Hub Cigar, 8118 Gateway Boulevard NW
- Greenwoods, 7925 - 104 Street
CLC Studies Volume 1
Transplanting Canada: Seedlings (2009), proceedings from the Transplanting Canada Colloquium held March 6 & 7, 2009 is now available.
ISBN: 978-1-55195-257-4, Price: $15.00 CAD
Read more here
To order:
Through the University of Alberta Bookstore, Internet: www.bookstore.ualberta.ca; by phone: 780.492.0265 or 1.888.933.9133 (ask for 'Special Services'). Delivery charges and taxes additional.
Henry Kreisel Lecture Series – Just Released:
Imagining Ancient Women
Annabel Lyon's March 2011 lecture is now available, with Introduction by Curtis Gillespie.
Publishers: co-published by the University of Alberta Press and the Canadian Literature Centre
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-0-88864-629-3
Format: Trade paperback
Genre: Canadian Literature/Essay
ABOUT THE BOOK Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fiction captivating. She discusses the process of wading through historical sources - and avoiding myriad pitfalls - to craft believable people to whom readers can relate. Finding familiarity with figures from the past and then, with the help of hindsight, discovering their secrets, are the foremost tools of the historical novel writer. Readers interested in the literary creative process and in writing or reading historical fiction will find Lyon's comments insightful and intriguing.
Also available:
The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling
- Eden Robinson, March 2010. Newly released in May 2011.
Un art de vivre par temps de catastrophe
- Dany Laferrière, March 2009.
The Old Lost Land of Newfoundland: Memory, Family, Fiction, and Myth
- Wayne Johnston, March 2008.
From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway
- Joseph Boyden, March 2007.
For more information, click here.
WINTER 2012 HOURS
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