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Category: Literary

Posted on March 15, 2019

Play literary event bingo

Sometimes for fun and sometimes for professional interest, I go to literary events. Readings, launches, author talks, even the odd "comedy night" or combination literary/art/music…

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Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Being a librarian in my spare time

In addition to writing, editing and proofreading, I am now also the proud steward of a Little Free Library. Books continue to be as important…

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Posted on June 8, 2014January 9, 2017

Review: Douglas Coupland exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The other week, I joined Twitter and was immediately flooded with information, including the news that Douglas Coupland was opening a new solo show at…

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Posted on May 7, 2014

Books for the road, from the road

Remember road trips? Sometimes the purpose was the Road Trip itself; sometimes it had an actual destination. If you're a child of North America, chances…

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I am saddened to hear that poet and activist Bud Osborn has died. I have just been drafting a post on road trip literature, and…

Continue reading → Thank you, Bud

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Posted on April 29, 2014

To Kill a Mockingbird to be available as an e-book

Harper Lee will celebrate her 88th birthday this year by allowing her classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, to be published in e-book form. Lee…

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Posted on April 27, 2014

Outgrowing Kerouac

Ever since I posted it many moons ago, Kerouac's Rules for Spontaneous Prose has been far and away the most visited post on the blog.…

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Posted on March 12, 2014June 2, 2014

subTerrain’s Lush Triumphant literary contest: Deadline extended!

If you've got a great story, poem or piece of creative non-fiction (i.e., essay, memoir or commentary) that needs to be read to be believed…

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Posted on January 23, 2014

subTerrain looking for “Coincidence” submissions

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” - Albert Einstein Two rays of light strike a surface at the same point, at the same time.…

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Posted on October 2, 2013

Subscribe to SubTerrain magazine and win

My good friends at Vancouver-based Subterrain magazine* are currently running a contest. Subscribe or renew before October 11, 2013, and you could win a very…

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Posted on May 2, 2012

Literacy campaign could use an editor

‘These Are Your Kids on Books’ Poster Goes Viral - GalleyCat. Though it's great to promote reading to kids, is it too much to expect…

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Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation is asking its Twitter followers to tweet their New Year's resolutions, pledging what they will do this year to…

Continue reading → Because #nightmarishvisionofaworldgonetohell would be too long of a hashtag

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Posted on January 3, 2012September 7, 2013

Writers who wrote about being poor

... and not about nobly starving for their art, either. We've all seen or read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In this classic tale, the…

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Posted on October 15, 2010February 8, 2013

Call a proofreader next time

CBC News - British Columbia - Carr statue unveiling marred by bronzed typo. News of an unveiling of a statue dedicated to Emily Carr, a…

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Posted on October 8, 2009

Speechless

Or silenced: the BC government cuts off funding to the Association of BC Book Publishers, the BC Association of Magazine Publishers, and the long-running publication…

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Posted on September 28, 2009

Highlights of Word on the Street Vancouver

Word on the Street Vancouver is one of my favourite literary/book geek events of the year. For one day, publishers, writers, zine and comic makers,…

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Posted on March 4, 2009

Crime Pays: Federation of BC Writers Fundraiser

From the Lorraine Murphy (aka raincoaster) fabulous organizer of the Shebeen Club, and now instigator-in-charge for the Lower Mainland contingent of the Federation of BC…

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Posted on April 11, 2008

Vancouver writers taking over the world

Could Vancouver's next claim to fame be our literary prowess? (Quit looking at those mountains, we've got books to read.) Not only is there a…

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Posted on March 8, 2008

A Grab Bag of Spring Writing Contests

Get going, kid Event Non-Fiction Contest #21 Deadline: April 15, 2008 Booty: $500 plus publication for the top three Details: http://www.douglas.bc.ca/community/event-magazine/contestdetails.html Better not procrastinate too…

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Christine Rowlands is a writer and editor in the Vancouver, BC, area.

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