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Women Travelling Alone
We are also collecting stories about women
travelling alone for an upcoming anthology. If you have an adventure story
about "going alone," share it with us. MORE
Women Writers of Northern and North-Central BC
Ongoing call for submissions. MORE
We are always looking for new stories by and about BC women and BC women
pioneers.
See our Writer's Info page for more information.
North of Iskut
Grizzlies, Bannock and Adventure
By Tor Forsberg
The Railroader's Wife
Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
By Bernice Medbury Martin and Jane Stevenson
Wake-up Call
Tales from a Frontier Doctor
By Sterling Haynes
Understories
By Al Rempel
AND NOW AVAILABLE FROM CAITLIN PRESS...
Inward to the Bones
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr
By Kate Braid
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Lam Launches Video Poem Online
See the Voice: Visible Verse 2009 is the annual festival devoted to video poetry (also known as poetry film or cine-poetry), a hybrid creative form that integrates verse with visuals. This year’s dynamic program showcases more than thirty short films from around the world, including Fiona Lam's video poem based on her 2009 book Enter the Chrysanthemum. To watch Fiona's touchingly beautiful video poem, please visit YouTube.
Lam recently read at the launch of Ricepaper Magazine's fall/winter issue and at UBC's Play Chthonics Reading Series at UBC's Green College.
The author is donating her royalties from the sale of this book to the YWCA's Single Mothers' Services in Vancouver. "The purpose of donating my royalties from this book to Vancouver YWCA's Single Mothers' Services is to connect art to reality, and poetry to people. As a child, I witnessed firsthand the hardship my widowed mother experienced working while raising three kids alone, and I have recently seen friends go through similar difficulties. Enter the Chrysanthemum serves both as a chronicle of a journey through that kind of struggle, and as a tribute."
Local author presents new book about Canadian Arctic
Meet author and filmmaker Dianne Whelan at a signing for her first book,This Vanishing Land: A Woman’s Journey to the Canadian Arctic ($28.95, Caitlin Press) at the Blue Waters Book Company in Madeira Park on Friday, November 27, 2009 from 1-3 pm. Whelan recently celebrated three milestones as she screened her new NFB documentary, This Land, as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival, launched the book in Vancouver, and then won Best Canadian Short Form Film at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival in Toronto. MORE
Valley Sutra Book Launch and Tribute to BC Poet Kuldip Gill
On Sunday, November 1st for an afternoon of remembrance and tribute as we celebrate the life and work of Kuldip Gill, as well as four other fine Vancouver-area poets who passed away this past year: Robin Blaser, David Dawson, Gerry Gilbert, and Billy Little.
This event will take place in the Celebration Hall at the Mountain View Cemetery and will consist of readings and tributes by George Bowering, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Kate Braid, Sue McCaslin, Marisa Alps, Meredith Quartermain, Oana Avasilichioaei, Jamie Reid, Miriam Nichols, and hosts Stephen Collis and Brad Cran, Vancouver's Poet Laureate. The afternoon events will also include the launch of Valley Sutra, which was completed by poet, author, and educator, Kuldip Gill, a few months prior to her passing. MORE
Trumpener shortlisted for ReLit
Caitlin Press is pleased
to announce that Prince George author Betsy
Trumpener has been shortlisted for the 2009 ReLit Award for
her collection of short stories The
Butcher of Penetang. This is Trumpener's second nomination
for a national literary award; earlier this year she garnered a nomination
for the prestigious Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
The people in Trumpener's stories cut cocaine into comfort food and chase
speeding ambulances in the dead of winter. Susan Musgrave calls the debut
"exquisitely crafted glimpses into the beauty of our fragile human
lives." The ReLit award is described by The Globe and Mail
as “The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent
presses." This collection was also recently reviewed in the Chronicle
Herald.
Awards and recognition
Gillian Wigmore wins the ReLit Award for Soft Geography, July 2008
“Wigmore is a fresh and powerful voice for BC North,” says publisher Vici Johnstone. “We are confident that the success of Soft Geography is just the beginning for this exciting new author.”
Gillian says she is “amazed and delighted to have won” and adds, “I'm so glad that Soft Geography, which is kind of a love song for north central BC, will reach a bigger Canadian audience than I'd even hoped for.”
The ReLit Awards, short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature, were founded in 2000 and emphasize the importance of ideas over big-money prizes. The winners will be celebrated at a special ReLit event during the Ottawa Writer's festival on October 26. Winners receive the ReLit Ring, which features four moveable dials, each one struck with the entire alphabet. According to The Globe & Mail the Relit Award is “the country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses.”
The other 2008 winners are Roberta Rees for short fiction piece Long After Fathers, and Gil Adamson for his novel The Outlander.Two Caitlin Poets shortlisted for the 8th Annual ReLit Awards.
Caitlin Author Shortlisted for ReLit Poetry Award, July 2008
Caitlin Press congratulates Marita Dachsel who has been shortlisted for the 8th Annual ReLit Poetry Award. Marita Dachsel's book of poetry, All Things Said & Done was published by Caitlin Press in 2007.
The ReLit Awards, short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature, were founded in 2000 and emphasize the importance of ideas over big-money prizes. The winners will be celebrated at a special ReLit event during the Ottawa Writer's festival in October. Winners receive the ReLit Ring.
Vici Johnstone, New Publisher/Owner of Caitlin Press, April 2008
Vici Johnstone, currently the general manager for Harbour Publishing, one of Canada's leading regional publishers, has just announced the purchase of Caitlin Press. She is now the sole owner and publisher.
Johnstone began her diverse career in the arts over 30 years ago as a stage manager and sound designer for theatre. In 1989 she moved to the CBC Radio, where she worked as a technical engineer and designer in Current Affairs and the Arts. She wrote and produced Sounds of the Disappearing Prairies, a mini-documentary series for Calgary's Wild Rose Country.
After 20 years in Alberta, Johnstone moved her family back to her native province and re-established her roots in BC. Since moving to the Sunshine Coast she has gained extensive publishing experience in media and entertainment, first as a new media producer for Basis Applied Technology, and then as the production and general manager for Harbour Publishing.
"As the publisher of Caitlin Press I intend to support and develop both of the press's original mandates. The voices coming from BC's Central Interior are fresh and real and reflect the heart and soul of BC. And, after 30 years of working in the arts it is clear to me that we still have a lot of work to do to bring women's stories to the forefront. I am excited about re-establishing a press for BC's women writers."
Caitlin Press will operate from Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine Coast with a regional editorial advisory board based in Prince George. The press will focus on both literary and non-fiction work that reflects the lives and adventures of interior British Columbians and BC women.
Caitlin will continue to be distributed by Harbour Publishing. Johnstone plans to publish two to three books each season.
For more
information about Caitlin Press, please contact
Vici Johnstone at 1 877-964-4953 or 604-885-9194
vici@caitlin-press.com
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