| Restless Moon a-rising
I wonder if anyone ever asks Dianne Warren what it's like to work with Elton? Or Barbra, or Whitney and Britney? All too often, probably.
If they do, they're really thinking of that other Dianne Warren, the one we all have to "thank" for the weepy Aerosmith movie anthem "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing," (Weepy anthems –it's a new genre, and it's perfect for Hollywood).
Anyway, forget that Adult Contemporary songwriting Dianne Warren. The real Dianne Warren, the playwright and short story writer, the author of The Wednesday Flower Man and Bad Luck Dog, is at Pages this week, reading from her new short fiction collection A Restless Moon, on May 16 at 7:30 p.m. Warren has won numerous awards for her stories and probably gets a really good table when she lunches in L.A. (Meanwhile, if you'd like to add your name to a petition get rid of the songwriting Dianne Warren's intro music for the new Star Trek series , see www.petitiononline.com/entintro/petition.html).
May 16 sees readings from two distinguished faculty members from the Banff Centre's Writing Studio. "Distinguished" sounds old and grizzled, which they're not – but both Edna Alford and David Carpenter have worked in Alberta and Saskatchewan as writers and editors for long enough and with enough distinction to have earned the adjective. Alford and Carpenter read on May 16 at 8:00 p.m. in the Music Building at the Banff Centre. The event is free. For details of more readings see www.banffcentre.ca/cfa/events/2002/series/ readings_writing_studio.htm.
"Too long a sacrifice," wrote W.B. Yeats, "can make a stone of the
heart." (So can listening to too much Adult Contemporary songwriting, but that's another issue.) On May 17, Vancouver writer Cynthia Flood reads from her new novel entitled Making a Stone of the Heart. What kind of sacrifices will the novel touch on? Find out at 7:30 p.m. at Pages.
If you drop by the Bad Ass Coffee Company on May 25 around 6 p.m., you'll find poetry and prose readings, hosted by the Boardwalk Writers group. The Bad Ass is located at 1103 - 17th Avenue S.W.
Anyone who wants to participate in the 2002 Calgary Stroll of Poets has until May 31 to submit three to five works of poetry, prose or drama, equal to about ten minutes reading time. For all the details, e-mail The Society of Poets, Bards and Storytellers at Calgarystroll@yahoo.com, or phone Pat at (403) 516-0846, or Gord at (403) 948-3633. This year's Stroll of Poets will be held on September 8.
Another week, another writer's deadline: June 1 is the last day to get into James Alan Gardner's two-day writing workshop on August 7 and 8. This is the annual Imaginative Fiction Writers Association workshop, held just before the Con-Version conference. For details write to ifwa@writtenword.org. |
