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EVENT magazine with Elizabeth Bachinsky
EVENT magazine celebrates 40 years of publishing contemporary poetry and prose this year. We are pleased to present contributors reading from EVENT Volume 40, Issue 1: Wayde Compton (“The Instrument,”) Amber Dawn (“The Calling of the Goddess,”) Charles Demers (“Remembrance of Things Delirious”) and Sheryda Warrener (“Tectonic.”)
Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose books include After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Performance Bond, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and 49th Parallel Psalm. He is a co-founding member of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project. Amber Dawn is a Vancouver writer, filmmaker and performance artist. She is the author of the novel Sub Rosa, editor of the Lambda Award-nominated Fist of the Spider Woman and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. Charles Demers is a stand-up comedian, novelist and essayist. His books include The Prescription Errors and Vancouver Special, the latter of which was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans BC Book Prize for Non-Fiction. Originally from Grimsby, Ontario, Sheryda Warrener has lived in Japan and Sweden, and now calls Vancouver home. She has been shortlisted for several awards. Her first collection of poetry, Hard Feelings, was released by Snare Books in Fall 2010.
4:10 Wayde Compton (Vancouver) Vancouver Public Library Writer-in-Residence
HOST: VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY Adopted by Vancouver Public Library
Wayde Compton, the Vancouver Public Library’s seventh Writer-inResidence, will discuss themes and issues that arise in his body of work. Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose books include After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Performance Bond, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and 49th Parallel Psalm. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver’s original black community. He is one of the publishers of Commodore Books. During his residency, Wayde will spend time writing, mentoring emerging writers, conducting workshops, and more.
4:30 Susan Crean (Toronto / Gabriola Island) Historic Joy Kogawa House Writer-in-Residence
HOST: ANN-MARIE METTEN
Toronto-based non-fiction author Susan Crean, 2011 writer-in-residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House, is living in Vancouver while she researches and writes a major work of literary non-fiction that combines genres of history, biography, journalism, and memoir. While living in the Marpole writers’ residence, Crean will continue research in historic Chinatown on one aspect of her work, which includes the story of head-tax payer Mr. Wong Dong Wong, whose life began in the village of Taishan, Guangdong, then continued in Vancouver when his adopted uncle brought him to Canada in 1911. Susan Crean will discuss her writing project and the public programming planned during her three-month residency at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver.
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