| Liberties will be taken at the first filling Station Flywheel reading of the year. That's when Weyman Chan, Frances Kruk, André Rodrigues and Jordan Scott plan to take turns "re-interpreting and re-imagining" each other's work. This dangerous game of literary musical chairs takes place at McNally Robinson on Thursday, January 13 at 7 p.m. The Flywheel series continues on the second Thursday of each month. See www.fillingstation.ca for more details about this sort of thing.
Next week, more liberties when dANDelion magazine launches its new issue entitled "The Absurd," with a performance by the so-called "TWAT Team" of Cara Hedlay, Jill Hartman and Brea Burton, along with readings by contributors Dave Carruthers, David Martin and James Dangerous. Pan Galactic Straw Boss offers soothing music. All this business will get done at The Unicorn Pub on Eighth Avenue S.W., on Saturday, January 22. Please note there is a dress code in effect, and I quote: "silliware (as in wear something silly)."
Two authors reading this week have one thing in common: eclectic previous experience. Brian S. Matthews is a stage actor, stand-up comic, journalist and window cleaner "with nearly a decade of experience in the field of animal and pest control."
His first novel, New Wilderness, is about the day that all the birds and beasts of the field decide to do what the machines do in Terminator movies: rise up and exterminate us humans. In the aftermath, decimated humanity struggles to survive and asks "Why?" Matthews reads at McNally Robinson on Wednesday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Deborah Nicholson has taught music. She has been a seller and an administrator, and helped folks both to travel and to find seats in the theatre. She was the manager of the Max Bell Theatre, and gives workshops on making your workplace into the setting for fiction – which she herself has done in Evening the Score, a new Kate Carpenter mystery. She reads at the W.R. Castell Central Library in Meeting Room 2, on Wednesday, January 19 from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. You can register in person on the central library's fourth floor, or call 260-2785.
Probably, your chance of winning one of the literary prizes regularly mentioned here exceeds your chance of winning any lottery. Plus you get to "write your own ticket," so to speak. The January 31 deadline looms for PRISM International’s 19th Annual Short Fiction Contest, with its $2,000 grand prize and its five $200 runner-up prizes. See www.prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests/fiction for submission details. |
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