All Entries in the "Literary Arts" Category
Salt Spring Author writes about The Third Age
“Welcome to the 3rd Age – the world of the active retired – of the over 60’s – of the first wave of Baby Boomers. The age of exploring, trail-breaking and pioneering. Of shared insights, learning new skills and making a difference in our communities. Of tackling Ageism head on and carving out a new [...]
Mystery Writers’ Retreat
June 6-11, 2010 – Mystery Writers’ Retreat: Salt Spring Island, part of the Summer Publishing Workshop series offered by Simon Fraser University. Imagine spending a week on Salt Spring Island with some of Canada’s top mystery writing minds: picking their brains, learning their techniques, and getting the how to’s of writing a successful mystery novel. [...]
Authors Event to Benefit Centre For Child Honouring
September 25th - Nine Salt Spring authors in a Literary Reading about childhood – A benefit for the Centre for Child Honouring Be enraptured, amused and touched by poets, novelists, nonfiction writers, literary prize-winners some with international reputations. Each reader is limited to only 6 minutes. It should be a beautiful evening of examining and [...]
“Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone” Book Launch
Salt Spring Books and Dancing Crow Press are pleased to announce the launch of Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: A Photo Narrative of Black Heritage on Salt Spring Island. Text by Evelyn C. White photos by Joanne Bealy Come celebrate this landmark community event on Sunday 27 September 2-4pm at Lions Hall. About the book… Disaffected [...]
Summer Reading Club 2009
Organizers of the summer reading club invite children to “Follow that Reader – for information, inspiration, adventures, games, mystery and prizes. Meet guest authors and illustrators.” This summer’s guests include Briony Penn, author of The Kids Book of Canadian Geography; Michela Sorrentino, illustrator of a new book “Alfalfabet: A-Z; and Garth Hendren, library supporter, reader [...]
Tantric Picnic at the ArtSpring Gallery
You are invited to share a tantric picnic – at a reading in the ArtSpring Gallery. Monday April 27th 7PM Admission is Free. Hans Plomp, visiting Dutch author, will be reading from Tantric Picnic, Tales of India, in the ArtSpring Gallery on Monday night. This is the first reading of this fascinating work in English [...]
Writers’ Workshop
The Way of a Story: crafting fiction and creative non-fiction – a four day workshop with Kathy Page and Derek Lundy Salt Spring Island May 9-13th , 2009 Writers of memoir, fiction and creative non-fiction are all storytellers, and each genre has much to offer the other. This workshop is a unique opportunity for both beginners [...]
