Wayne Curtis at odd sunday's

Wayne Curtis is featured at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series. (New Brunswick, the poetry province.)

Sunday, November 18, 2007, 2pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured Reader Wayne Curtis, was born near Blackville, New Brunswick, and was educated at the local schoolhouse, eventually finding his way to St. Thomas University where he majored in English. His work is "a pleasure to read, for no detail escapes his discerning eye." As well as having written six novels and many short stories, he has contributed to The Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, Outdoor Canada, and local newspapers. Winner of the Richards Award for short fiction, his stories have appeared in literary journals, including The Cormorant, Antigonish Review, and the anthology Antlantica. As well, Curtis’ short stories have been dramatized for both CBC Radio, CBC television. His publications include River Stories, Nimbus, 2000, River Guides of the Miramichi, Goose lane Editions, 1997, and Fishing the Miramichi, New Ireland Press, 1994. Rumour has it he is currently writing a novel with Doubleday Canada, Night Train to Havana, based in Cuba where in 1999 he was Writer-in-Residence at the Institution of Superior Arts. In the Spring of 2005 Wayne received an honorary doctorate degree (letters) from St. Thomas University. Besides his time in Cuba, he has lived in Southern Ontario and the Yukon, and currently divides his time between the Miramachi River and Fredericton.

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 the wild and crazy people of odd sundays at molly’s, at 2 pm on Sunday, November 18, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon engaged with literature. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)