Sunday, October 19, 2014

Tracy Hamon releases Red Curls

Tracy Hamon
Regina writer Tracy Hamon recently launched her new poetry collection, Red Curls (Thistledown Press).

Congrats, Tracy!

And yes, I missed the launch, as I was touring the beaches of Ireland at the time...

But I will soon have a copy of the book, and I wanted to share the great poster promoting Tracy's amazingly entertaining (so I am told) Regina launch!



From the Thistledown website:  
In a series of poems that move between narrative and lyric, the personas of Austrian artist Egon Schiele and his mistress/model Valerie Neuzil are revealed in exquisite detail. 
Dividing the work into three sections, equal energy is given to the artist, his model, and the alluring energy of Viennese eroticism. Creating intimacy through the use of first person and exposing drama through the use of the third, Hamon’s poems resonate with Egon’s and Valerie’s story: how they met, their intense desires, and the union and bond that would keep them together for years.  
Red Curls chronicles lives but in the retelling, captures the enterprise and intensity of Schiele as he pushed the culture of desire to new heights.  
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Anne Lazurko wins WILLA with Dollybird

Yes, this is catch-up time on my blog...
Anne Lazurko, with her novel, Dollybird.  

And I'm delighted to note that Anne Lazurko's novel Dollybird is the winner of the 2014 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction, from Women Writing the West.

The WILLA is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning author Willa Cather, and celebrates the best of literature featuring women's stories set in the North American West. 

Congrats, Anne! 

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Congrats, Sandra Birdsell!

Sandra Birdsell 
Congrats to Regina writer Sandra Birdsell, this year's recipient of the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence!

The award honours Saskatchewan writers with a substantial body of acclaimed literary work and comes with a $10,000 prize.

Sandra Birdsell has written six novels, including Waiting for Joe, Children of the Day and The Russländer, as well as three collections of short stories and several scripts for television, theatre and radio. A respected mentor, she has been a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous universities across Canada, United States, Italy, England and Poland — and has won many awards for her writing.

She also serves as President of the Sage Hill Writing Experience, is a founding member of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild, was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010, and received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2012.
"Sandra's fiction has been consistently recognized as among the best in the country, and she is most deserving of the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award with its dedication to literary excellence.” (2014 Kloppenburg Jury)
Past recipients of the award, which was established in 2010, are Guy Vanderhaeghe, Lorna Crozier, Sharon Butala, and Dianne Warren. For more, see the website for the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, which administers this award.

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