Wednesday, May 16 2018
7:00—9:00pm
Rose & Crown Pub, 1503 4 St SW, Calgary
Free Admission
You are invited to arrive anytime after 6:00pm to have dinner and socialize with friends!
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Join the Writers’ Guild of Alberta to celebrate the 2018 Alberta Literary Award shortlisted authors and their nominated works! We look forward to hearing from Kimmy Beach, Stephen Bown, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Karen Hines, Igpy Kin, Sid Marty, Roberta Rees, Cynthia Scott Wandler and Deborah Willis. Big thanks to Shelf Life Books for their support and for setting up a pop-up bookstore in the Rose & Crown library alcove. To view the full list of nominated writers please CLICK HERE.
Big thanks to Shelf Life Books for their support and for setting up a pop-up bookstore in the Rose & Crown library alcove.
Kimmy Beach is a writer and editor who’s published six books. She offers manuscript evaluations, editing, and support to emerging and established writers. Her latest book, Nuala: A Fable, is shortlisted for the 2018 Writers’ Guild of Alberta Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction.
Stephen Bown is the author of ten critically acclaimed books of historical non-fiction, focussing on exploration, science and ideas. He has been shortlisted for numerous awards. His most recent work, Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering’s Great Voyage to Alaska, was short-listed for the RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction and long-listed for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. His books have been translated into nine languages. Bown lives with his wife and two teenage children in the Canadian Rockies.
Geoffrey Simon Brown is a playwright, actor, and director born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is a co-creator of the Major Matt Mason Collective. Geoffrey just finished a two-year residency at Theatre Junction GRAND, where he wrote and directed a new play developed with and performed by an ensemble of Calgary teenagers. His playThe Circle, which was published by Scirocco Drama this past fall, has been performed in Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. His other plays include Michael Mysterious, Night, Time, Still Still Still, Control, Air,and Destroy. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Karen Hines is an award-winning director, performer and playwright. A two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for The Pochsy Plays and Drama: Pilot Episode, Karen has twice been honoured with the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award forThePochsy Plays and Hello…Hello. Her short films have screened on six continents and she has performed extensively in Canadian television including three seasons on CBC’s Emmy winning Newsroom. Karen is a National Magazine Award-winning writer. Coming up: Crawlspacethe 2019 High Performance Rodeo.
Igpy Kin is a well-meaning rabble-rouser and celebrated glitter advocate who’s lived in the modest shadow of Nose Hill for 93% of their life. Her commitment issues extend to her pronouns. A proud graduate of the University of Calgary (2012) and a survivor of Concordia (2016), they frequently mean to send things out for publication. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @igpykin, or at their infrequently updated website, www.igpykin.com. She would like you to be kinder to bees.
Sid Marty is an accomplished author and musician, active conservationist, and long-time singer/songwriter. Sid performs (occasionally these days) with guitar, mandolin and harmonica. He is currently the lead singer with Wailback, a four-piece band based in Pincher Creek, Alberta.For more information on books and music please go to www.sidmarty.com
Roberta Rees’ writing is described as musical and moving. Her publications include three award winning books: Long After Fathers, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, and Eyes Like Pigeons, as well as many essays, poems, stories, and a 30 minute film, Ethyl Mermaid. Writing awards include: the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, the Canadian Literary Award for Personal Essay, the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Novel Award, the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award. Roberta enjoys hanging out with friends and family, playing her guitar, singing, spending time in the mountains, engaging in social/political activism.
Cynthia Scott Wandler is a freelance writer and reporter who has also been published in The Hopper, the #yegwords Coffee Sleeve Project and borrowed solace; she has work forthcoming in Far Off Places! and Understorey Magazine. Living in Morinville, Alberta, she can often be found either writing on paper or hugging the trees that make it. She would love for you to say hi at cynthiascottwandler.ca where you can also check out her tips for emerging writers.
Deborah Willis’s latest collection of fiction, The Dark and Other Love Stories, was published in 2017 by Penguin in Canada and W.W. Norton in the US. The Dark was long listed for The Giller Prize, and named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and the CBC. Her first book, Vanishing and Other Stories, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award and praised by Alice Munro for its “range and depth…clarity and deftness.” She has been the Writer in Residence at the University of Calgary, the Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, and MacEwan University in Edmonton, as well as the Submissions Coordinator for Freehand Books.