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Bookends by Harry Vandervlist The written and spoken word has been fêted for five days. Your stack of signed books waiting to be read has grown a little. The authors have enjoyed the Summit Salon in Banff, that part of WordFest where they get to talk to one another for two days – really one of the attractive features of the Calgary-Banff event. If you're now feeling the need for follow-up, have a look at some of the Web links on the WordFest home page at wordfest.com. Joolz Denby and Terry Rigelhof both have intriguing sites. Rigelhof's takes the design award (from this particular design dunce, at least). Margaret Atwood's comes with a couple of stern copyright warning pages, but then backs up a virtual truckload of information and unloads it all on to your screen. If you want to go straight there, the URL's are: Atwood – www.web.net/owtoad/; Denby – www.joolz.net ; T.F. Rigelhof – www.onlink.net/rigelhof/. This Saturday, filling Station magazine presents two poets from our nation's capital. Is this a pre-election type of thing or is it just coincidence? Anyway, Colin Morton and rob mclennan are from Ottawa, and they're reading on October 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Triangle Gallery (800 Macleod Trail S.E.). With a couple of dozen poetry chapbooks and five full-on books, mclennan's one of the most prolific and energetic writer/publishers ever, as pointed out here in the past. Morton grew up in Calgary and attended two out of Alberta's three universities. He received the Archibald Lampman poetry award in 1985. Kurt Schwitters fans (you know who you are) should look at Morton's volume The Merzbook. As Schwitters knew, there's nothing like "merz" to help your case of weltschmerz. For details on all of the above, contact derek beaulieu at filling station magazine (234-0336) or housepress@home.com. Short attention span? Then how'd you get this far down the page? Seeing as you did, you should know that Ken Rivard launches his newest book of postcard fiction this week at Memorial Park Library. Skin Tests is a collection of short short stories from Black Moss press. Rivard's fiction and poetry are perceptive, witty and, in this case, brief. So be there Thursday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Park Library (1221 - 2 St. S.W.). Please register in person or by calling Memorial Park Library at 221- 2006. Maybe you're a member and don't already know about this meeting. Or maybe you're not a member and would like to know anyway. The Writer's Guild of Alberta holds its convention this weekend, October 20 and 21, in Red Deer. There are workshops, the annual general meeting, and a tribute to Banff poet and past WGA president Jon Whyte. For more information call 265-2226, fax 262-5858 or look at http://www.writersguild.ab.ca/. Finally, Ken McGoogan, author, freelancer and former book editor for the Calgary Herald, will be speaking at the Calgary Association of Freelance Editors (CAFE) meeting on Tuesday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the U of C (Social Sciences, Room 221) on the subject of freelance business basics. Non-members are welcome, and there is a drop-in fee. For more information call 243-3632.

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