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by Harry VandervlistBecause the full moon rises this week, it's time for the Single Onion Reading Series at Beat Niq. This month, Vancouver's Alice Tepescuintle joins local poets Richard Harrison, Rajinderpal S. Pal, T. Crane and emcee Sheri-D Wilson. Single Onion readings always happen on Thursday – this time it's Thursday, May 18 at 8 p.m. Beat Niq is always downstairs at 811-1 St. S.W. There's always further info available at 686-4292.
For years Steven Heighton has been known as a writer's writer. Like the term "musician's musician," this expression means "one admired by discerning fellow practitioners." Sometimes there's a subtext to these categorizations, which runs something along the lines of "not likely to appeal to a broader audience" or even "overly concerned with arcane niceties of the craft." But surely those discerning fellow practitioners wouldn't be taken in, if this were the case, in this case. Now Heighton, who built his reputation as poet and short story writer, has produced his first novel, entitled The Shadow Boxer. He reads at Pages on Wednesday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m., so you can hear for yourself whether he's your kind of writer.
For the third year running, Cochrane's Western Heritage Centre presents its short story contest called Write ’Em Cowboy. If you've got a story with a "western rural theme" then you can throw your hat into the ring and go after some of the $3,500 in prizes on offer. You can write about the past, the future or even the present. You can write fiction, history or historical fiction. You can be an adult or a junior (i.e. Grades 5 to 9). If you're a junior, send in your whole story. If you're the other kind of writer, you send in a preliminary submission before September, then write your whole story at the Western Heritage Centre next November 4 and 5. For the official details call Max Foran at 403-932-3514, or go to www.westernheritage.net/shortstory.html.
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