Call for Entries: 31 words

FROM: Crane's Bill Books

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.

Thirty-one will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.

Deadline: April 1, 2007

Jeffrey A. Lee
Crane's Bill Books
1907 Buena Vista SE 11
Albuquerque, NM 87106-4148
USA
cranesbill@cybermesa.com

Family Literacy Day Events in Miramichi

Spelling bees and community readers are on the schedule for Family Literacy Day happening Saturday, January 27 at Northumberland Square mall.

Family Literacy Day activities have been organized by community partners including Miramichi Regional Health Authority’s Early Language Service, Miramichi Literacy Council and the New Brunswick Public Library Service.

The day begins at 11a.m with welcome remarks and registration for the English family spelling bee. A French-speaking spelling bee is scheduled for 1p.m that day. The day will also feature community members who will be reading books to those who gather at the mall for the events. Timberwolves player Josh McCormack, Miramichi author Valerie Sherrard, 99.3 The River morning personality Michelle Roy and Nelson Rural School student Grace Woods will be on hand to read to the crowd.

There will be prizes for the spelling bee and giveaways throughout the day. For further information about the event contact (506) 623-6363.

Shari Andrews Reading Odd Sundays

Poetry reading: Shari Andrews featured at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series.

Sunday, February 4, 2007, 2pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Shari Andrews, featured reader at odd sundays at molly’s: She pays tender attention to the past. Shari Andrews’ poetry dives into memory through the lens of the everyday—a clothespin, a flapping sheet, a porcelain cup. From Oberon in 1999, Andrews’ The Stone Cloak captures the nineteenth century story of her great grandparents’ move from Denmark to New Brunswick. Bones About to Bloom , also from Oberon (2001), won the Baily Prize from the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. Crucible (2004, Oberon), illuminates the life of St. Catherine of Siena, beginning with the little girl who devotes her life to Christ, and to a mystical brand of Catholicism that influences both the religion and politics of her day: “glory grasped/just long enough to recognize,/the serpent’s bite” (p 79). Andrews’ poems shimmer with reverence and startling metaphor: “the flat of his right hand/is a doorstop jammed against/the heart of Christ” —taken from Walking the Sky, (2005, Oberon) p 27.

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, February 4, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon of poetry. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)

Qwerty READS January 26 at the Underground Café

Qwerty READS
January 26, 2007
7-11 pm

This month featuring katieBROWN · jesseFERGUSON · dannyJACOBS · matthewGOSS · patLEECH · lauraPEARSON · gregSHUPAK

Qwerty READS is a monthly night of poetry, short fiction, visual art and music held at the Underground Café -an arts laboratory where everyone is welcome to experiment.

OPEN MIC! Bring your textual hypermetrics, visual dialectics or musical inventions.

To celebrate our conception this month QWERTY READS begins at the end and ends at the beginning, fast forwards, rewinds, defies sublimation, explores aural sensations, gets hurly-burly, climactic and bombastic. Plus, we're musically accompanied (and poets are just so damn cute).

QWERTY is a literary magazine published two to three times each year by the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick. QWERTY READS is our new monthly reading series to showcase young artists in Fredericton. We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the University of New Brunswick Graduate Students Association and the Faculty of Arts.

The Underground Café and Alternative Bookstore is a youth volunteer-run, collectively owned, not-for-profit, fair trade cafe. The Underground promotes social justice and positive change in our community. The Underground Café is located at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton.

7th International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading in Fredericton

7th International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading in Fredericton 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: 21 March 2007, Wednesday, from 5-8pm

Where: Latin American Cultural Centre, in the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte St (between Church and St. John Streets) Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Organized by Nela Rio (founder of the International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading) with the support of the Latin American Cultural Centre (COCUY), ellipse, Broken Jaw Press, Registro Creativo (ACH), and the New Brunswick Latino Association.

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, and Amharic among others.

We invite you to join us in the 7th 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, and the text of the poem you will read (use Times New Roman, 12pt font). The poem should have 30 lines maximum including stanza breaks (this is for the purpose of printing and exhibiting the poems at the reading). Send it to nelario@rogers.com
Please note: this community event will not be paying artist or performance fees.

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, 12pt). The poem should have 30 lines maximum. Send it 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, 12pt). The poem should have 30 lines maximum. Send it to nelario@rogers.com

Thank you very much,
Nela Rio


Mensaje del Director General de la UNESCO con motivo del Día Mundial de la Poesía—21 de marzo de 2005 / Message du Directeur général de l’UNESCO à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de la poésie (21 mars 2005 / Message by the Director-General of UNESCO:

La poesía tiene además la virtud de acompañar muy de cerca nuestra relación íntima con la escritura, la lectura, la traducción y la capacidad de compartir, y por ello es, hoy más que nunca, un elemento esencial del pacto que suscribimos, como parte del Decenio Internacional de una Cultura de Paz y no Violencia para los Niños del Mundo (2001 2010), para promover un aprendizaje crítico y fundado en los ideales de creación artística y literaria, libertad de expresión y diversidad cultural. (Koichiro Matsuura)

“[Poetry] has the virtue of being intimately connected to our private practices of writing, reading, translating and sharing. In this respect it is more then ever before at the heart of the pact we have entered into, in the context of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010), to promote an enlightened learning based on the ideals of artistic and literary creation, freedom of expression and cultural diversity.”
—Koichiro Matsuura

Lisa Moore Reading, Fredericton

One of Canada's most acclaimed writers of fiction, Lisa Moore, will be reading Tuesday, January 23 at 8pm at Memorial Hall on the UNB campus. Lisa is the author of the national bestseller, Alligator, as well as a collection of stories titled Open. Both were shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free. Books will be available for purchase at the reading.

Anne Simpson Lecture, Fredericton

John McLaughlin, President of The University of New Brunswick and James Murray, Dean of Arts invite you to Art Sweet Art: Helping Emerging Artists Stay in Atlantic Canada, a public lecture by Anne Simpson. Anne Simpson, a maritime author, has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Journey Prize (1996), the Atlantic Poetry Prize (2001), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2004), and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Chapters/Robertson Davies First Novel Prize.

The lecture will take place on January 25, 2007 at 8 pm in the Charlotte Street Art Centre Auditorium. Refreshments and conversation are from 7 – 8 pm. Everybody is welcome to attend.

Ross Leckie Featured Poet at Odd Sundays

Sunday, January 21 at 2 pm
Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured reader, Ross Leckie was born in Lachine, Quebec, and has lived in Montreal, Toronto and Prince George. He is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, and Editor of The Fiddlehead. Leckie’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Landmarks (2001) and Why I Sing the Blues (2001). He is the author of three collections of poetry: Gravity's Plumb Line (Gaspereau Press, 2005), The Authority of Roses (1997) and A Slow Light (1983). In a review of Gravity’s Plumb Line, Eric Marks says: “Leckie deftly balances lyricism and precision in these poems, many of which explore New Brunswick’s sense of place. The poems in Gravity’s Plumb Line are musical, not simply in sound, but in style. Formal and mannered, but never stilted, they sing with a creativity that is expertly controlled.”

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

2007 Program

Feb 4 Shari Andrews
Feb 18 Betty Ponder
Mar 4 Mark Jarman
Mar 18 Robert Gibbs
Apr 1 Lynn Davies
Apr 15 Anne Compton
May 6 Nela Rio
May 20 Sharon McCartney

Join us at 2 pm on January 21, at Molly’s Coffee House for an afternoon engaged in the literary arts. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. New Brunswick: Canada’s poetry province!

Seeking Submissions

Bread 'n Molasses, the Miramichi's Positive Outlook magazine, seeks submissions from Atlantic Canadians in general and Miramichiers in particular on the theme of "Home Sweet Home" for their print edition.

Topics might include but not be limited to: spring cleaning, gardening, renovations, turning sod on the new basement, designing your dream home, renting, buying, how to save money, save time, do it yourself, find the right person for the job, and much more.

We accept short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, personal essays, articles, photos, and all kinds of other artwork.

Payment in copies.

Deadline February 1st.

Send all inquiries and/or submissions to print@breadnmolasses.com.

Now in its fifth year online, Bread 'n Molasses launched a bi-monthly print edition in the Miramichi region last October.

Rejected Quarterly Contest

TRQ’s 1st Ever Rejected Fiction Writing Contest!

Guidelines: Fiction to 8,000 words. $10 entry fee per manuscript. Up to two entries per person. Five rejection slips (or copies thereof) must accompany each entry.

1st Prize: $200
2nd Prize: $100
3rd Prize: $50

Each winning story will also be published in The Rejected Quarterly. An honorable mention award may be added at the discretion of the editors.

Entries will be accepted and read from December 1st, 2006 until June 30th of 2007.

Make checks payable to TRQ.

The Rejected Quarterly
P,O. Box 1351
Cobb, CA 95426
bplankton@yahoo.com

http://www.rejectedq.com

Call for Reviews

Visual Arts News seeks submissions for short format (250-300 words) exhibition reviews from Atlantic Canada. Visual Arts News is the only magazine dedicated to contemporary visual art in Nova Scotia. Although our focus is mainly Nova Scotian art and artists, we would like to review exhibitions from across Atlantic Canada.

Send all materials by email to the attention of Sue Carter Flinn at vanews@visualarts.ns.ca.

Writer fees will be paid for published submissions. All editorial decisions are made at the discretion of the Editorial Committee. If you are also submitting photos, please ensure they are 300dpi and a minimum of four inches wide.

Deadline for reviews to be considered for publication in the Spring 2007 issue is February 15. If you would like more information on Visual Arts News go to: www.visualartsnews.ca

Call for submissions

Sumach Press is delighted to announce a new YA story collection about mothers and daughters and body image, to be published in 2008. The working title is Cleavage, and we're looking for stories of 2000 - 3500 words about eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, implants, clothing choices, hair, waxing, makeup, piercing, tattoos etc. Point of view should be thirteen and up, but the issues can be hers, her mother's, or both. We're especially interested in quirky, humourous stories that capture the bizarreness of body image along with defining mother-daughter moments.

We welcome submissions from new, emerging and established writers by June 15 2007.

Deb Loughead and Jocelyn Shipley, co-editors
www.debloughead.ca
www.jocelynshipley.com

For details, please go to:
www.sumachpress.com/submiss.

Reading at the Attic Owl in Moncton

When: JANUARY 18, 2007

Reading at 8 PM

Where: Attic Owl Bookshop
115 Queen Street, Moncton
(AT queen & Alma)

Who: KAREN DAVIDSON, JOE BLADES, EDWARD GATES

Karen Davidson, of Elgin, NB has been quietly writing and publishing her work in periodicals and a poetry chapbook, Windows. Her long-awaited first book is Jewelweed (Broken Jaw Press).

Joe Blades is a writer, artist and publisher living in Fredericton. The editor of nine books, his four poetry collections include River Suite, Open Road West and Casemate Poems.

Edward Gates, a blueberry farmer in Belleisle Creek, has authored five poetry collections including Seeing the World with One Eye and Heart’s Cupboard, winner of the Poets’ Corner Award.

The reading is free and is open to the public. All are welcome!

This is the fourth in the 2006-2007 Reading Series At The Attic Owl Bookshop, usually Held on the Second to Last Thursday of Each Month.

odd sundays at Molly's in Fredericton

Poetry reading: M.Travis Lane featured at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series.

Sunday, January 7- 2PM
Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen Street

Featured reader, M.Travis Lane, B.A., honours, Phi Beta Kappa, Vassar, M.A. and PhD. Cornell. Canadian citizen by choice, Lane came to Fredericton in 1960, madly writing all the while. While producing book after book of poetry, also she has essayed, reviewed and otherwise enriched our understanding of poets and poetry. She has given papers on the long poem at UBC, at York University, and at the Maritime Writers' Workshop. Researcher and teacher at UNB, Lane has edited Cornell’s Vassar Review, has worked for M. H. Abrams, and has marked for Vladimir Nabokov. Her poems have been anthologized, set to music, and performed, such is her connection to art in Canada. If you google M. Travis Lane, you will find a long list of poetry prizes in her name, as well as the impressive scope of her publications (from Five Poets, Cornell 1960, to Touch Earth, Guernica Editions, 2006.) Mostly, though, come hear her read.

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

*And please note our impressive lineup for 2007:
Jan 7 Travis Lane
Jan 21 Ross Leckie
Feb 4 Shari Andrews
Feb 18 Betty Ponder
Mar 4 Mark Jarman
Mar 18 Robert Gibbs
Apr 1 Lynn Davies
Apr 15 Anne Compton
May 6 TBA
May 20 Sharon McCartney

Join us at 2PM on January 7, at Molly’s Coffee House for an afternoon engaged in the literary arts. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. Yay New Brunswick, Canada’s poetry province!