News - Part 14

Vancouver International Writers Festival

75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARDS

Join Joan MacLeod,John Pass, John Vaillant, and Nino Ricci for the Vancouver International Writers Festival’s Governor General’s Award Party, hosted by Hal Wake. Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 8:00pm at the Waterfront Theatre.

For decades the most significant recognition a writer can receive in Canada has been a Governor General’s award. On the 75th anniversary of the awards the festival brings together four acclaimed writers who will read from the books that won the prize, and talk about what the reward has meant for their careers. They’ll also offer their frank opinions about literary prizes in general and what they contribute to our literary culture and whether we have relied too heavily on prizes to tell us what to read. Two-time winner for fiction Nino Ricci will be joined by John Pass (poetry), Joan MacLeod (drama) and John Vaillant (non-fiction). Come celebrate the GG’s and the end of the Festival with cake and conversation.

Round Table with Clark Blaise

Steven Hayward and Nino Ricci join Clark Blaise in a conversation about mentoring and the teaching of creative writing. Monday, October 10th, 2011 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

In addition to his renown as a teacher, novelist andwriter of non-fiction, Clark Blaise is a longtime master of the short story. His most recent collection is The Meagre Tarmac, published by Biblioasis.

Colorado College

This October Nino Ricci is the Maclean Distinguished Visiting Professor at the esteemed Colorado College in Colorado Springs, home of NORAD and the U.S. Air Force Academy as well as command central for the U.S. evangelical movement, boasting the headquarters of some eight-one right-wing Christian groups.

Nino will be teaching creative writing to anyone who dares to listen.

Sense of Sudbury

Looking for a good time in Sudbury? Check out Alistair MacLeod, Iain Baxter& and Nino Ricci at the Art Gallery of Sudbury as part of the ongoing Sense of Place roadshow. Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 7 PM. For more information on Sense of Place, see Nino’s article in the July/August issue of Canadian Geographic.

Eden Mills 2011

Eden Mills Writers’ Festival

Sunday, 18 September 2011

The 23rd Eden Mills Writers’ Festival takes place this September in lovely Eden Mills, Ontario, with events that run from September 16th to 19th. On Sunday, September 18th, join Nino and more than thirty other authors reading from their work, signing their books, and being generally witty and entertaining, in a bucolic setting reminiscent of the world as it was before Google and social media. A good time is promised for all.

York River Festival – Bancroft, Ontario

Join Nino for “Where the Words Are,” part of the York River Festival in Bancroft, Ontario. Saturday, September 17th, 2011 at 7 PM or thereabouts at Bancroft’s Village Playhouse. For more information, call 613.332.0873.

75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARDS

Eden Mills Writers’ Festival

Sunday, 18 September 2011

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