WFNB AGM in Fredericton

Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick
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404 Queen Street • PO Box 37, Station A • Fredericton, NB • E3B 4Y2
Telephone / Fax: 459-7228 C Email:wfnb@nb.aibn.com
Website: http://www.umce.ca/wfnb

AGM PROGRAMME - April 7, 8 and 9, 2006 Fredericton, N.B.

Celebrating 21 years

Friday April 7, 2006.
6 – 9 p.m. Sienna Room, BrewBakers, 546 King Street, Fredericton.
Come and have a beer or dinner and then, at 7 p.m., celebrate the work of WFNB members who have published a book in the interval between the 2005 AGM and the 2006 AGM. Authors will be invited to launch their work with a three minute reading. Please fill in the registration form you received by email or in NB Ink if you would like to participate.

Saturday April 8, 2006
All events will be held in the Upstairs Assembly Room, Fredericton Public Library, 12 Carlton Street, Fredericton.

10-12 noon Workshop with Kathy Mac
“Figurative Language in the Poem, Poet, Poetry”
N.B. Coffee will not be available in the morning session.

12-1:30 p.m. Lunch. Information will be available on local eating spots.

1p.m. – 4:30p.m. Stop by the Board Room, main floor Fredericton Public Library, where you can buy books by authors participating in the AGM. This is a free service provided for those registered for the AGM. Attach a sticky note with the price of your book, rounding off to the
nearest dollar. Drop copies to be sold off at the Board Room after 12:30p.m. Saturday, April 8, 2006

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Annual General Meeting, WFNB

2:30-3 p.m. Literacy Presentation

3p.m. – Coffee, tea, water and fresh fruit in the downstairs Board Boom.

3:15 – 5 p.m. Workshop with Beth Powning. “Remembered Places, People, and Times – Using Memory to Create Literary Non-Fiction”

WFNB Awards Banquet:

6:30 p.m. Join ”Honoured Guest” M. Travis Lane at The Palate Restaurant and Café, 462 Queen Street, Fredericton.
Curious about what it takes to win a literary prize? Come and see for yourself while you catch up with old and new friends in the writing world at the awards banquet.

The Palate will greet attendees with a complimentary glass of wine.

Banquet Menu *please specify Salmon, Steak, Chicken or Vegetarian

Soup of the Day
House or Caesar Salad
Choice of Main Course
Oven Baked Atlantic Salmon- Capped with Lemon, Parmesan & Chive Meringue or
Stuffed Chicken Breast – Stuffed w/Goat Cheese, Proscuitto & Sun-dried Tomatoes or
Grilled Spiced Maple Rib-Eye Steak – 9-10 0z steak marinated with a spicy rub and served with a Maple Syrup Reduction or
Vegetarian Offering
Apple Strudel, or Pineapple Carrot Cake
Tea or Coffee

Cost: $40 includes tax and gratuity.

*Door prizes will be offered throughout the weekend.

Sunday April 9, 2006

10 a.m. The Ice House, UNB campus.
Bring your coffee and your writings and share them (the writings, not the coffee) with fellow scribes.

2006 AGM early registration fee members $40/ non-members $50 (before March 15)
2006 AGM late registration fee members $50/ non-members $60(after March 15)
2006 Banquet fee $40 per person

6th International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading

THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL MULTICULTURAL-MULTILINGUAL POETRY READING in conjunction with
The United Nation’s Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry, World Poetry Day, and Mother Language Day

Organized to foster tolerance, respect and cooperation among peoples

When: Sunday 19, 2006, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Where: at the Latin American Cultural Centre, located in The Charlotte Street Arts Centre, at 732 Charlotte Street in Fredericton, between Church and St. John Streets.
Organized by: the founder of the International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading, Nela Rio, with the support of the Latin American Cultural Centre, ellipse and Broken Jaw Press.

Previous celebrations since 2000 have featured poets and members of the community reading in many languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese Dutch, Danish, Urdu, Turkish, Amharic, among others.

We invite you to join us in this celebration!
This event is open to the general public and admission is free.

REGISTRATION FORM FOR POETS
Please include your name; Postal address; Email address; the text of the poem (use Times New Roman, 12. The poem should have 30 lines maximum, this is for the purpose of preparing the Poster Poem); send this information to nelario@rogers.com. Please note: this community event will not be paying artists or performance fee.

REGISTRATION FOR READERS (you may choose a poem of your favorite poet to read at this event). Please include your name; Postal address; Email address; the name and country of the poet; the text of the poem (use Times New Roman, 12. The poem should have 30 lines maximum, this is for the purpose of preparing the Poster Poem); send this information to nelario@rogers.com

REGISTRATION FOR INTERNATIONAL POETS WHO CANNOT ATTEND THE EVENT FOR REASONS OF LOCATION. Please include your name; Postal address; Email address; the text of the poem (use Times New Roman, 12. The poem should have 30 lines maximum, this is for the purpose of preparing the Poster Poem); send this information to nelario@rogers.com

Thank you very much
Nela Rio

Joan Clark Reading

Author Joan Clark will be reading from her latest novel, An Audience of Chairs, on Wednesday, March 1 at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The reading will be held at 8pm in Memorial Hall and is free and open to the public.

Ms. Clark has written several novels, two collections of short fiction and a number of award-winning children's stories. In 1989, she won the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for her first novel, The Victory of Geraldine Gull. She also received international acclaim for her last book, Latitudes of Melt (2001).

"Elegantly written and deeply grounded in place," An Audience of Chairs tells the story of "Mad" Moranna Mackenzie, a Cape Breton woman struggling with the loss of her daughters and the emerging signs of mental illness.

Joan Clark is a native of Nova Scotia and attended Acadia University. After living in Alberta for a number of years, Ms. Clark has returned to Atlantic Canada. She now resides in St. John's, Newfoundland, where she writes full-time.

This event is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the UNBF Department of English. For more information, please contact Edith Snook at (506) 458-7397.

New Brunswick author Shortlisted For The Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize

Established in 1997, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year's best novel or short-story collection. The Writers Trust of Canada announced yesterday the shortlist for the award, which
includes Maclean ($14.95), by New Brunswick author Allan Donaldson. Maclean was published by Halifax-based, Vagrant Press in September 2005 to critical acclaim.

The Globe and Mail said, “This book merits a media frenzy.”

The Chronicle Herald called Maclean, “A finely detailed study of a man buffeted by fate whose story stays with you long after you put the book down…a small, hard but brilliant gem of a book.”

And the Daily Gleaner said, “Maclean may be modest in scope, but readers should be extravagant in their praise for this fine novel.”

The winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize will receive a cash prize of $15,000 while the remaining finalists will receive $2000. Nine awards will be presented on Wednesday, March 1, in Toronto at the fifth annual Writers’ Trust Awards event. Total prize money awarded that night to Canadian writers will be $133,000, making the event one of the richest awards nights in Canada.

Allan Donaldson was born in Taber, Alberta, but grew up in Woodstock, New Brunswick. In his teens, he worked summers wheeling cement, tamping ties and laying steel on the railway, working on a rock crusher and an asphalt plant, and operating a jackhammer. On scholarships, he studied English literature at the University of New Brunswick and the University of London. He spent a teaching career in the English Department at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of a book of short stories, Paradise Siding.

About Maclean: Twenty-five years after the Great War, John Maclean is still struggling to carve out a meaningful existence in his small New Brunswick hometown. One late summer day he embarks on a seemingly prosaic search for a little money, a little booze, and a birthday gift for his mother. But he’s haunted by memories—of war, of his cruel father, of opportunities wasted and lost—and each moment is shadowed by his bleak history. Shell-shocked and
alcoholic, Maclean is divided between a lonely present and a violent past.

Maclean was one of two novels released by Vagrant Press in Fall 2005, its inaugural season. An imprint of Nimbus Publishing, Vagrant Press is dedicated to publishing fiction about Atlantic Canada and supporting writers from Atlantic Canada.

Shortlist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize

Joseph Boyden (New Orleans, Louisiana) for Three Day Road, published by Viking Canada

Michael Crummey (St. John’s) for The Wreckage, published by Doubleday Canada

Lauren B. Davis (Princeton, New Jersey) for The Radiant City, published by HarperCollins

Allan Donaldson (Fredericton) for Maclean, published by Vagrant Press

Rabindranath Maharaj (Toronto) for A Perfect Pledge, published by Knopf Canada

CanWrite! Conference Story Contest

The Canadian Authors Association invites entries for the Fourth Annual CanWrite! Conference Story Contest. The top ten selections will be published in an anthology that will be launched at the 85th CAA Annual Conference in Peterborough in 2006. Top three winners will also receive $500, $200 and $100 respectively plus a free conference registration. Open to all ages and all Canadian residents. Short stories must be fiction, unpublished, and 1500 words max. Deadline: February 28, 2006. More details...

The Walrus Magazine 2006 Fiction and Poetry Contest

The Walrus Magazine, together with Summer Literary Seminars, Inc., is accepting entries for its 2006 Fiction and Poetry Contest. Fiction entries will be judged by Margaret Atwood. Poetry entries will be judged by Robert Hass. Winners will have their work published in The Walrus, and receive airfare, accommodation and free tuition at next year's Summer Literary Seminars program in St. Petersburg, Russia, a month-long program in the heart of St. Petersburg. Entries must comprise one story or novel excerpt, or no more than three poems. Entry fee: $10(US), made out to Summer Literary Seminars Inc. Complete contact information (address, telephone, e-mail address) must be included on the manuscript. Entries are not judged blind. Do not include an SASE. Cover letters are not required. All entrants will be notified of the winners by e-mail in Spring 2006. Entries should be sent to the following addresses: Summer Literary Seminars Fiction/Poetry Contest, English Department Concordia University, 1455 de Maissonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8. Deadline: February 28, 2006.

Two Contests from The Antigonish Review

The Antigonish Review (NS) invites entries for the 6th annual Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize. First prize (each contest): $600 plus publication. Submit poems up to 150 lines or 4 pages (one long poem or several shorter poems); fiction: 20 pages max.. Entry fee: $25; enter both contests for $35. Deadline (fiction): May 31, 2006. Deadline (poetry): June 30, 2006. More details...

2006 Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest

2006 Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest
Deadline: February 15th, 2006
Entry Fee: Adults:$15, Child/Youth (Under 18): FREE
Prizes: Adults: $300, $200, $100 Child/Youth: $25, $15, $10
Submit up to 3 poems (30 lines maximum combined) per entry.
This year's Adult Judges: Joe Blades, rob mclennan and Ingrid Ruthig
This year's Child/Youth Judge: Susan Lynn Reynolds
Judge bios can be viewed on the contest page.
Online Submission only to dansullivan@wcdr.org
Payment by PayPal on the WCDR site or by cheque to mailing address at website
All rules and regulations can be viewed at www.wcdr.org/dansullivanrules.html
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