Windsor reading ... workshops ... stuff

Off to Windsor this morning to participate in a panel and to give a reading at WordFest, a real nice writers' festival taking place at the Art Gallery of Windsor. The panel is about publishing; the reading is called Multimedia Poetry, but I will be reading prose and there'll be no multimedia for my stuff. More info right here.

Another highlight for me will be Robert Earl Stewart's reading on Saturday: it'll be his first reading from Something Burned Along the Southern Border, which I acquired and edited for Mansfield Press. A fantastic poetry collection.

Speaking of which, I just saw Bob's book yesterday. It arrived from the printer along with Jim Smith's Back Off, Assassin! New and Selected Poems, which I also put through Mansfield. Another really great book. And both of them have beautiful covers designed by Mansfield publisher Denis De Klerck.

Finally, I have a couple of workshops coming up, and there's still some space:

THE WORD BLITZ: a workshop by Stuart Ross
Sunday, November 15, 10am-5 pm (w/ 45-minute lunch break)
Christie/Dupont area
$75 includes materials, light snacks & a book by Stuart Ross

To register, write Stuart at hunkamooga@sympatico.ca

For beginning writers, or those who simply want a one-day writing holiday or to break through one of those mythical writers' blocks. The Word Blitz is a hands-on exploration of short fiction, poetry, the personal essay and memoir. We'll write, and we'll talk about how to make writing a part of your life, as well as about various forms of publication.



STUART ROSS'S POETRY BOOT CAMP
Sunday, November 22, 10am-5 pm (w/ 45-minute lunch break)
Christie/Dupont area
$75 includes materials, light snacks & a book by Stuart Ross

To register, write Stuart at hunkamooga@sympatico.ca

A relaxed but intensive one-day workshop for beginning poets, experienced poets, stalled poets, and haikuists who want to get beyond three lines. Poetry Boot Camp focuses on the pleasures of poetry and the riches that spontaneity brings, through lively directed writing strategies and relevant readings from the works of poets from Canada and abroad. Arrive with an open mind, and leave with a heap of new poems!

Over and out.