Award-winning author Pamela Porter recently visited the Moose Jaw Public Library on a speaking tour. While in Moose Jaw, the Friendly City, Pamela Porter met up with Brett Hopper of Shaw TV and spoke about her upcoming young adult novel entitled I’ll be Watching, which is set in the area around Moose Jaw.
School District #73 annually hosts the Young Authors’ Conference for all Grade 4 to Grade 12 students in the Kamloops / Thompson District.
Norma Charles, award-winning author of Run Marco, Run, is honoured to be giving three sessions on “Being an Author” to students in grades 4 to 7.
The conference will be held at at the Thompson Rivers University on May 4, 2012.
At the 28th annual CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination, children’s author Norma Charles is delighted to present “The Golden Age of Middle-Grade Readers is Upon Us.”
The conference will take place at Victoria College, the University of Toronto on Saturday, November 10, 2012. Registration will begin at 8:15am with speakers starting at 9am. For more details, or to register, please visit the CANSCAIP website.
Norma Charles
Recently Louise Wilson, the granddaughter of Eunice M.L. Harrison, received a glowing letter from the Queen’s Lady-in-Waiting thanking her for a personal copy of The Judge’s Wife: Memoirs of a BC Pioneer.
Louise Wilson would like to thank the Queen and her Lady-in-Waiting for their support!
Author Howard Richler discusses the origins and meanings of words in his National Post article: Howard Richler: I’m fulsomely disinterested and nonplussed
If you like this, you may like Can I Have a Word with You?, Strange Bedfellows: The Private Life of Words, and Take My Words: A Wordaholic’s Guide to the English Language.
Carol Anne Shaw was featured in Leslie Fountain’s book The Passionate Life, which profiles 22 creative, passionate woman of Cowichan Valley. Along with Leslie Fountain and Pipi Tustian, Carol Anne Shaw was interviewed on the radio show “Be the Media” to discus the book and her work. To listen to the interview on Be the Media episode 71 go to the CHLY 101.7 website.
Award winning author, Jean Rae Baxter, launched her new book Freedom Bound in Ontario.
Freedom Bound is the final installment of Jean Rae Baxter’s best-selling young adult trilogy, in which eighteen-year-old Charlotte sails from Canada to Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick.
The event was a success with many wonderful readers in attendance. Jean Rae Baxter also had the pleasure of signing books for her fans. Click on the thumbnails below to view images of the book launch.
On Thursday, March 15, join Lisa Smith at the Esther Birney Lecture Series, for her presentation “Our Friend Joe: the Untold Story of Vancouver’s First Lifeguard,” featuring the book, Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story.
This lecture series take place at Brock House on the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus.
Garry Gottfriedson will be reading from his poetry collection, Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems at First Nations Student Society Thompson Rivers University‘s Spring Gathering. This literary event will be held on March 14th from 530-8pm, in the Irving K. Barber Center.
Last Sunday, poet Harold Rhenisch was interviewed on CBC’s North by Northwest about his newest collection called The Spoken World.
Listen to his interview here.
