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Heather Spears in The Link
I've been editing fiction for regional arts magazine The Link for over a year now. I've been lucky enough to publish sublime local authors including Leanne Simpson, Kate Story, Joe Davies, P.J. Thomas and more.
http://www.the-link.ca/issues/MayJune...
In the current May/June issue, we feature a Ballardesque flash piece by veteran Peterborough dancer/choreographer Ryan Kerr. I've heard Mr. Kerr read his short fiction a few times over the years and have always been impressed by his prose stylings so it's a treat to be able to share his work with a wider audience.
We also have a poem by Governor General Award winner Heather Spears. "Eidetica" is from her 2008 collection, I Can Still Draw, and appears on page seven.
Spears passed through Peterborough in late 2010. She read with fellow poet Susan McMaster at a salon du livre organised by Betsy Struthers. It was lovely to connect and talk about writing and the vaguaries of the publishing scene. Unbeknownst to many Heather is also a science fiction novelist whose triology was published by Tesseract Books before they were bought by Edge Publishing, so we have that in common. Swing by her website to look at her astonishing drawings, too.
http://www.heatherspears.com/contents...
Heather Spears
http://www.the-link.ca/issues/MayJune...
In the current May/June issue, we feature a Ballardesque flash piece by veteran Peterborough dancer/choreographer Ryan Kerr. I've heard Mr. Kerr read his short fiction a few times over the years and have always been impressed by his prose stylings so it's a treat to be able to share his work with a wider audience.
We also have a poem by Governor General Award winner Heather Spears. "Eidetica" is from her 2008 collection, I Can Still Draw, and appears on page seven.
Spears passed through Peterborough in late 2010. She read with fellow poet Susan McMaster at a salon du livre organised by Betsy Struthers. It was lovely to connect and talk about writing and the vaguaries of the publishing scene. Unbeknownst to many Heather is also a science fiction novelist whose triology was published by Tesseract Books before they were bought by Edge Publishing, so we have that in common. Swing by her website to look at her astonishing drawings, too.
http://www.heatherspears.com/contents...
Heather Spears
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
