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Join Nina and fellow Vancouver authors, Ariadne Sawyer, Diego Bastianutti, and Alex Winstanley at Chapters, Metrotown in Burnaby (British Columbia) on September 18, 2008 from 7pm until closing for a reading and question/answer period. Refreshments will be served. Nina will be reading from one of her Aurora-nominated short stories and talking about her current novel, a historical fantasy set in medieval Prussia and modern-day Paris, France. She will also be sharing her newest project, The Alien’s Guide to Cool Writing, a cool writing guide for beginning writers ideal in this and any other galaxy. The Alien guidebook, published by Pixl Press, is scheduled for December 2008 release and is available for pre-order at Pixl Press.
Ariadne Sawyer - is a creativity specialist who teaches Performance Plus training. She is the co-founder of the World Poetry Reading Series, co-host of the World Poetry Cafe Radio Show on 102.7 FM, World Poetry Media, and the author of The Best of Creativity Rocks.
Diego Bastianutti -is a published author and a former professor at Queen’s University and former Vice Consul of Italy for Eastern Ontario . Award winning-poet, his translation of the works of Ungaretti received the John Glassco National Prize.
Alex Winstanley - is a twenty-two year old poet living in Vancouver . He has been writing and winning prizes in national poetry contests since the age of ten. Alex has self-published a book of poetry, entitled Vancouver’s Sunday Mornings.
This event is hosted by Lucia Gorea, founder of Poetry Around the World, as part of the series on featured artists called Poets and Writers of the New Millenium. Lucia is also the author of Journey Through My Soul.
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September 13th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I’ve heard some good things about this blog. Remember to balance the pics with the text tho. cheers!
September 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Thanks, 101. For those of you in Vancouver, British Columbia, Nina will be featured again at this same Chapters store next month (October) some time. We’ll let you know when and we look forward to seeing you!
Cheers!