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Bookends by Harry Vandervlist This Sunday, September 24, Word on the Street presents more writers, publishers, and book and magazine people than you can shake a whole truckload of sticks at. It's all free, and you can find it at Eau Claire Market between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Poets Ted Blodgett, Shane Rhodes, Richard Harrison, Ian Samuels, Cecelia Frey and Doug Barbour will read at the diabolical-sounding Sheraton Suites Red Devil Poets Corner. Add Alice Major, Bob Stallworthy, Nicole Markotic, Rajinderpal S. Pal and Robert Hilles, and you've got the complete poet roster – sweet devils all. Fiction writers include Elizabeth Hayes, Dave Margoshes, Todd Babiak, Pearl Luke, Candas Jane Dorsey, Stephen Lattey and Fred Stenson. George Melnyk reads from his personal essays, and non-fiction writers abound as well. All this at the Chapters Launching Pad. You don't have to merely show up and passively listen – you can wander around and meet the writers, have a chat, get a book signed. There's also the Investors Group Authors Tent, featuring Robert Kroetsch reading from What the Crow Said – a Canadian legend reading from an imaginative masterpiece. So get off the couch. And in case you've wondered what happened to the formerly-familiar bylines of Ken McGoogan and Susan Scott from pre-Calgary Herald strike days, they'll be reading from their work as well. Fantasist Jack Whyte reads from Uther. Sharon Butala reads from Wild Stone Heart. Panels on topics like "Literary Moonlighting" (i.e. how to pay for food and shelter when you're a writer) are scheduled as well. When? Where? See the pullout in this issue. And notice all of the other writers impossible to list in this space. If you can't make it to WOTS, you can still hear Dave Margoshes read from I'm Frankie Sterne at Indigo (Signal Hill) on September 22 at 7 p.m. He's also at Pages on Kensington, at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 21. Meantime Sharon Butala also reads at Indigo (Signal Hill) on September 23 at 2 p.m. Fred Stenson launches his new book, The Trade, at Pages on Friday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m. That's trade as in fur, not as in player, by the way. Mystery readers can see Gail Bowen read from her new Joanne Kilbourn book on Monday, September 25 at the John Dutton Theatre, in the Castell Central Library. This is an Ex Libris event (good to see they're still going on) and it's at 7:30 p.m. Poets Wendy Mcgrath and Paddy McCallum read at Pages next Tuesday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m. McCallum strikes me as a Seamus Heaney-ish type of poet, so Heaney fans take note.

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