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Archive for January, 2008

Photo by David Helwig from poetrypei.com website.
PEI’s new Poet Laureate, David Helwig, has launched the Prince Edward Island Poet Laureate Community Website at www.poetrypei.com. The site has information about the PEI Poet Laureate Program; current and historical PEI poets; and poetry resources, events and podcasts.
PEI Writers’ Guild members are invited to submit a poem to [...]

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Calling all indie authors and publishers - including small and mid-size independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors. Enter the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards now to have your book considered for cash prizes of $1000, awards, exposure, and recognition as one of the top independently published books of the year! With [...]

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 Cahoots is a Canadian magazine freshly re-designed for the web for women who want more than the “same old, same old” from a women¹s magazine. Cahoots is a magazine for the creative, engaged, curious, soulful woman in all women. Editors are seeking submissions of articles, visual art, creative writing, and proposals for regular reviews and columns about [...]

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The PEI Council of the Arts welcomes David Helwig as PEI’s new poet laureate.
Carolyn Bertram, PEI’s Minister of Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour, announced Wednesday that the author of more than 20 books of fiction and poetry would replace Frank Ledwell, who held the title for three years.

Frank was known across the Island for his [...]

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Prince Edward Island’s premiere literary awards event celebrates its 21st birthday this year.
For over two decades now, the ILAs have encouraged and rewarded some of the province’s best writers in their craft with cash awards and recognition. The PEI Writers’ Guild and the PEI Council of the Arts, sponsors of the event, are excited to [...]

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Novelist Kathy Page will give a public reading in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24 as part of UPEI’s Winter’s Tales series.
Born in London, England, Page was a rising British literary star when she moved to Salt Spring Island, B.C., in the 1990s. She is best-known for her recent novels, The [...]

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