Category: Literary Arts

LiterASIAN is Canada’s premier annual Asian literary festival, which began in 2013. The organization was founded by the Canadian poet, Jim Wong-Chu, who wrote Chinatown Ghosts. This year’s festival will present the works of Asian writers across the diaspora. “The Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop has…

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“The Breeding Hut”, a new erotic adventure novel by Lisel & Jeffrey Forst, is set to launch on Thursday, April 11th, 2019 in Spiritbar at the Hume Hotel. Lisel will be doing a comedy set about the process of writing the book and the night will…

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Photo (Anne Degrace): Morty Mint (left) and Ernest Hekkanen are being honoured for their substantial contributions to the Kootenay Literary scene. Literary Award honours two literary veterans The Richard Carver Award, which traditionally honours emerging Kootenay writers, is changing in 2019 to recognize emerging artists…

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The St. Eugene Writers Conference is a workshop conference. Writers bring their work, present it to a small group of their peers and work on it for the following days. The group discusses the work–what is effective, where there might be improvements and how it…

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A Nelson author is the recipient of the 2017 Richard Carver Award for Emerging Writers, sponsored by the Nelson and District Arts Council, the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival and the Carver Family. The jury elected to award the honour to author Diana Morita Cole. The…

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The Nelson and District Arts Council and Elephant Mountain Literary Festival request assistance in nominating emerging writers in West Kootenay communities for the 5th Annual Carver Award, which comes with a $500 cash prize and presentation at the Festival’s 100-Mile Gala in Nelson on July…

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