This year, there will be four workshops on Friday, February 17th. Entering Poetry by Sandy Martin, Memoirabilia by Miji Campbell, Flash Fiction by Audrey Thomas, and Write Your Memoir by Bill Schermbrucker. Details including schedule and cost for each workshop below. Space is very limited. To register pls contact us: (250) 539-3340 or leetrentadue@gmail.com.
For more Information , purchasing tickets, or any other questions please contact the Galiano Island Bookstore at 250-539-3340 or email leetrentadue@gmail.com
Aislinn Hunter – “The World Before Us” (2014) – The Guardian Review
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/18/the-world-before-us-aislinn-hunter-review-novel
New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/the-world-before-us-by-aislinn-hunter.html?_r=0
Billie Livingston – “The Crooked Heart of Mercy” (2015) – The Globe and Mail Review
Kim Trainor – “Karyotype” (2015) – Open Book Recommends
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/open_book_recommends_2015_holiday_reading_guide_part_two
Maggie de Vries – “Rabbit Ears” (2014) – Quill and Quire Review
http://www.quillandquire.com/review/rabbit-ears/
Christine Lowther – “Born Out of This” (2014) – The Malahat Review
http://www.malahatreview.ca/reviews/190reviews_fox.html
Charles Demers – “The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things” (2015) – The Globe and Mail Review
Read the full release on The Malahat Review’s website here
http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/open_season/2016_winner.html
John will be participating in a poetry reading at this year’s festival on Sunday Feb 21st at 10:45am and will be joined by his partner Theresa Kishkan.
Tickets to his reading are $25.00 and will be sure to sell quickly after this wonderful announcement!
Contact Galiano Island Books at 250-539-3340 to purchase your ticket!
Of John Pass‘ winning poem, “Margined Burying Beetle,” judge Russell Thornton says: [The poem] presents a questing biocentric poetic awareness, an intense elegiac tone, and a portrayal in which a creature conventionally conferred little status appears as a potent agent of the creation, ‘a writer of a future’ offering sacred illumination to a shamanistic speaker who witnesses it ‘wondrously / shifting!’ on ‘plush moss’. The play of language in the piece is open and exploratory and at the same time taut, controlled; the poet here utters quick, quirky changes and rich phrases. There is the ‘crabapple / small and scabby of late but in the spring / a clustered mass of port-wine glory above / wild iris.’ There is the beetle of the title, ‘sinuous / wriggler chevroned orange on black’ that ‘nudged / the resurrection’ [the speaker’s] way in sunlight…’ In all its aspects, including complexity of theme, depth of feeling, imaginative movement, and deft lyrical execution, this poem is a marvellous success.
Click here for Festival Program
The event will take place in the beautiful and scenic dining room at the Galiano Inn and Chef Dean Hillier goes that extra mile and creates gorgeous and delicious dishes. If you are attending the festival, this is a great opportunity to schmooze with our festival authors, the festival organizers and fellow attendees!
Tickets are $50 each and can be purchased over the phone at 250-539-3340 or in person at Galiano Island Books at 76 Madrona Drive.
Writers, poets and readers come and be inspired at the Galiano Literary Festival Feb.19-21 on Galiano Island. Workshops, wine & cheese & conversations with authors in a beautiful setting on Galiano Island. – ShawTV
go! airs daily on ShawTV Channel 4.
Check out the trailer for more information on how to attend this wonderful festival!
