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Title: BookFest Windsor
Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Description: BookFest Windsor invites attendees to meet their favorite authors, through readings, panel discussions, book signings and workshops. The festival features books in a variety of genres, including novels, biographies, short stories, poetry, graphic novels and comics.
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Start Date: October 25, 2012
End Date: October 27, 2012
Title: Robert Bringhurst: What the Ink Sings to the Paper
Location: San Francisco, California, US
Description: Even in the era of the Internet and digital publishing, the writer’s craft becomes visible through the medium of print. Bringhurst will examine the common spirit that moves the typographer, master printer, artist and writer.
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Date: October 19, 2012
Title: Poetry’s Centennial Celebration and anthology release
Location: Chicago, Illnois, US
Description: To celebrate Poetry’s 100th birthday, editors Christian Wiman and Don Share have assembled a unique anthology, The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine.
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Date: October 4, 2012
Title: National Poetry Competition submission deadline
Location: United Kingdom
Description: Established in 1978, the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious poetry contests. Winners include both established and emerging poets, and for many the prize has proved an important career milestone. Win, and add your name to a roll-call that includes the current UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Tony Harrison, Ruth Padel, Philip Gross and Jo Shapcott.
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Date: October 31, 2012
Title: Soulpepper production of Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Alligator Pie, an original Soulpepper production, brings the celebrated children’s poems of Canada’s Father Goose, Dennis Lee, to vibrant theatrical life. Soulpepper’s creation ensemble (Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross), fill the stage with music, invention and Lee’s delicious imagination.
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Start Date: October 26, 2012
End Date: November 25, 2012
Title: Found in Translation Award presented to Joanna Trzeciak
Location: Columbus, Ohio, US
Description: The Found in Translation award is given annually to the translator of the finest publication of Polish literature in English to have appeared in book form during the preceding calendar year and recognizes the great importance of the original text. The winner receives a monetary award and a three-month residency in Kraków funded by the Polish Book Institute.
The 2012 winner is Joanna Trzeciak for her translation of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz.
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Date: October 26, 2012
Title: Poet Summit: How the Poem Changes Us reading/roundtable at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Poets discuss how great poems shape and affect how we see the world.
This event features Roo Borson, Phil Hall, Don McKay and the winner of the CBC Poetry Prize. The CBC’s Garvia Bailey hosts and moderates.
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Date: October 20, 2012
Title: Dennis Lee in conversation with Brad Cran at Vancouver Writers Fest
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations. For the past 25 years, the Writers Fest has enriched imaginations and the culture of Vancouver and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation. The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists.
Say “Alligator Pie” and you think of Dennis Lee. But Lee has comfortably straddled the worlds of children’s imagination and adult concerns since he began writing more than 40 years ago, wearing many different literary hats along the way.
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Date: October 21, 2012
Title: Margaret Atwood, Dionne Brand and others discuss Atwood’s Survival at Vancouver Writers Fest
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations. For the past 25 years, the Writers Fest has enriched imaginations and the culture of Vancouver and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation. The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists.
On the 40th anniversary of the publication of Margaret Atwood’s Survival, six significant voices from the Canadian literary scene – Atwood, Dionne Brand, Louise Dennys, Graeme Gibson, Emily Schultz and Aritha Van Herk – talk about the flowering of Canadian literature, which has been cause for national pride.
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Date: October 20, 2012
Location: United States