Free Public Reading

Book publication is every aspiring writer's dream, and in the past year the dream came true for 10 current and recent former students of the University of Calgary English Department's writing program.

The Department will celebrate its students' successes with a free public reading by the recently published authors.

The books being feted include novels and collections of poems ranging in style from realistic to experimental, and covering topics from pirates to women athletes to family life viewed through the prism of that Canadian icon, the canoe. The publishers of the new volumes are equally eclectic, located in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, British Columbia, and York, England.

The readers will be:

Angie Abdou, The Bone Cage.  Edmonton:  NeWest Press

Derek Beaulieu, Flatland.  York, UK:  information as material

Brea Burton and Jill Hartman, Booty: Hurricane Jane and Typhoon Mary.  Toronto:  The Mercury Press

ryan fitzpatrick, Fake Math. Montreal, QC: Snare Books

Diane Guichon, Birch Split Bark. Gibson's Landing, B.C.: Nightwood Editions

Jill Hartman and Brea Burton, Booty: Hurricane Jane and Typhoon Mary.  Toronto:  The Mercury Press

Cara Hedley, Twenty Miles. Toronto:  Coach House Press

William Neil Scott, Wonderfull.  Edmonton:  NeWest Press

Natalie Zina Walschots, Thumbscrews.  Montreal:  Snare Books

Andrew Wedderburn, The Milk Chicken Bomb.  Toronto:  Coach House Books