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Governor General's Award Winning poet Heather Spears to appear at Cat Sass Literary Nights on Tuesday May 28
Three wonderful writers will appear at Cat Sass Literary Nights on Tuesday, May 28. This event is funded by The Canada Council for the Arts and will run at the Norwood coffeehouse from 7-9 pm.
Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11 collections of poetry and 4 novels, The Creative Eye (07), the first of a series on visual perception, and 3 books of drawings. She has won numerous awards in Canada including The Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Her latest collection, I can still draw (08), was short-listed for the Lowther Memorial Award. She travels widely and has drawn at many international festivals, and in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America. Spears will also be at Sadleir House in Peterborough on the previous evening (May 27th at 7 pm), presenting a CD of her drawings from the Intifada. Donations will be accepted for Daughters for Life, a foundation that supports young women from Gaza to pursue their education.
Margaret Slavin Dyment has a collection of fiction, Drawing the Spaces (Orca) and two chapbooks of poetry: I Didn't Get Used To It (Ouroboros), and Tracing A Line (Ekstasis). Also published is a volume of journal essays from two years' bus travel (2004-2006) among Canadian Quakers. She founded the Victoria School of Writing, and in 2000-2001 was a writer-in-residence at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. She continues to write poetry and fiction and for Transition Town and Quaker publications. She is forever completing a second collection of fiction.
Kate Story is a writer and performer originally from Newfoundland; she now lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She has been twice nominated for the Ontario Arts Council's KM Hunter Artist Award, and her writing has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award; her debut novel Blasted received honourable mention for the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and was nominated for the ReLit Award. Always the bridesmaid. Wrecked Upon This Shore is her second novel. She is currently working on a young adult fantasy novel, and a silly novel for immature adults. She is also known as an actor, choreographer and dancer. Story appeared at Cat Sass Literary Nights in 2012 and is looking forward to a return engagement.
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 7-9 pm
Location: Cat Sass Coffeehouse, 4255 Hwy. 7, Norwood, On.
(705) 639-5494
I Can Still Draw
Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11 collections of poetry and 4 novels, The Creative Eye (07), the first of a series on visual perception, and 3 books of drawings. She has won numerous awards in Canada including The Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Her latest collection, I can still draw (08), was short-listed for the Lowther Memorial Award. She travels widely and has drawn at many international festivals, and in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America. Spears will also be at Sadleir House in Peterborough on the previous evening (May 27th at 7 pm), presenting a CD of her drawings from the Intifada. Donations will be accepted for Daughters for Life, a foundation that supports young women from Gaza to pursue their education.
Margaret Slavin Dyment has a collection of fiction, Drawing the Spaces (Orca) and two chapbooks of poetry: I Didn't Get Used To It (Ouroboros), and Tracing A Line (Ekstasis). Also published is a volume of journal essays from two years' bus travel (2004-2006) among Canadian Quakers. She founded the Victoria School of Writing, and in 2000-2001 was a writer-in-residence at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. She continues to write poetry and fiction and for Transition Town and Quaker publications. She is forever completing a second collection of fiction.
Kate Story is a writer and performer originally from Newfoundland; she now lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She has been twice nominated for the Ontario Arts Council's KM Hunter Artist Award, and her writing has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award; her debut novel Blasted received honourable mention for the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and was nominated for the ReLit Award. Always the bridesmaid. Wrecked Upon This Shore is her second novel. She is currently working on a young adult fantasy novel, and a silly novel for immature adults. She is also known as an actor, choreographer and dancer. Story appeared at Cat Sass Literary Nights in 2012 and is looking forward to a return engagement.
Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 7-9 pm
Location: Cat Sass Coffeehouse, 4255 Hwy. 7, Norwood, On.
(705) 639-5494
I Can Still Draw
Cat Sass Literary Nights: Saturday June 15, 5-7 pm Leah Bobet, Shane Joseph, Wes Ryan
Cat Sass Literary Nights: Saturday June 15, 5-7 pm Leah Bobet, Shane Joseph, Wes Ryan
Please join us at Cat Sass on Saturday June 15th from 5-7 pm to hear three wonderful writers! We may have a surprise fourth guest so stay tuned! Cat Sass in Norwood is at 4255 Hwy. 7, 705 639-5494
Leah Bobet is the author of Above, a young adult urban fantasy novel. She is the editor and publisher of Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, a resident editor at the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, and a contributor to speculative web serial Shadow Unit. Her short fiction has been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies; Further short work appears in the anthologies Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful; Chilling Tales; Clockwork Phoenix; The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy; and TEL: Stories. She is a frequent contributor to On Spec, Realms of Fantasy, and Strange Horizons. Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling and Pushcart Prizes, and she is the recipient of the 2003 Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize. Visit her at: http://leahbobet.com/
Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers where he studied under Giller Prize and Canadian Governor General’s Award winning author David Adams Richards. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004. Fringe Dwellers, his first collection of short stories, was released in 2008, and is now in its second edition. Shane’s third work of fiction, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, was released in 2009 and won the Canadian Christian Writing Awards best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category in 2010. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies internationally. His blog at is widely syndicated. His latest novel, The Ulysses Man, was released in 2011. Visit Shane at: www.shanejoseph.com
Wes Ryan is a multi-faceted artist with a penchant for combining spoken-word and dance into genre-mashing performances confronting mediocrity. The current Peterborough slam-poetry champ, he has represented Peterborough at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and a national team member for three years. Since suffering a brain injury in 2007, Wes has performed shows about living on social margins and facilitated workshops encouraging youth to find empowerment by sharing their narratives. Currently studying Social Service Work at Fleming College, he is also a member of the Centre for Gender and Social Justice and the Peterborough Poetry Collective.Leah Bobet
Please join us at Cat Sass on Saturday June 15th from 5-7 pm to hear three wonderful writers! We may have a surprise fourth guest so stay tuned! Cat Sass in Norwood is at 4255 Hwy. 7, 705 639-5494
Leah Bobet is the author of Above, a young adult urban fantasy novel. She is the editor and publisher of Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, a resident editor at the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, and a contributor to speculative web serial Shadow Unit. Her short fiction has been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies; Further short work appears in the anthologies Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful; Chilling Tales; Clockwork Phoenix; The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy; and TEL: Stories. She is a frequent contributor to On Spec, Realms of Fantasy, and Strange Horizons. Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling and Pushcart Prizes, and she is the recipient of the 2003 Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize. Visit her at: http://leahbobet.com/
Shane Joseph is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers where he studied under Giller Prize and Canadian Governor General’s Award winning author David Adams Richards. Redemption in Paradise, his first novel, was published in 2004. Fringe Dwellers, his first collection of short stories, was released in 2008, and is now in its second edition. Shane’s third work of fiction, After the Flood, a dystopian novel of hope, was released in 2009 and won the Canadian Christian Writing Awards best novel in the futuristic/fantasy category in 2010. His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies internationally. His blog at is widely syndicated. His latest novel, The Ulysses Man, was released in 2011. Visit Shane at: www.shanejoseph.com
Wes Ryan is a multi-faceted artist with a penchant for combining spoken-word and dance into genre-mashing performances confronting mediocrity. The current Peterborough slam-poetry champ, he has represented Peterborough at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and a national team member for three years. Since suffering a brain injury in 2007, Wes has performed shows about living on social margins and facilitated workshops encouraging youth to find empowerment by sharing their narratives. Currently studying Social Service Work at Fleming College, he is also a member of the Centre for Gender and Social Justice and the Peterborough Poetry Collective.Leah Bobet
