Beatrice T-shirts l Craig Street Cats Adoption Day l Inside Publishing l JAZZ IT UP for liver research l ChiSeries l Charmaine J. Putnam l Sandi Sellen l Larry Verstraete l Gord Bruyere l Miles Macdonell Collegiate: Pulse l Wanda Koop

Earthdog Terrier Rescue of Manitoba is placing our "Love is Blind" shirt order on March 26!
If you are interested in purchasing one, please let us know asap.
Price will be approximately $20.  The larger the order the lower the price!

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Our vet bills are always growing. If you can help, please contact our awesome vet team at Best Friends Animal Hospital 269-4451 or email to make a donation.

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March 30, 11:00 am until 4:00 pm
Best West Pet Foods, 1150 St. James St

Come visit Craig Street Cats’ amazing foster cats and kittens!

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April 12, 11:00 am until 3:30 pm
Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium, 251 Donald Avenue

Offered by The Writers Collective of Manitoba, Inside Publishing is the free and open-to-all “glimpse behind the curtain” of the book industry. In four 50-minute sessions you’ll get the inside scoop from the authors, editors, and publishers of four different books. We’ll look at various genres, hear about habits, processes, what really fires an editor’s rockets, and a whole lot more. Moderated by Joanne Kelly.

11 am: GRAPHIC NOVELS with David Alexander Robertson, author Tales from Big Spirit and 7 Generations, and Catherine Gerbasi from Portage and Main Press

12 noon: CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS
with Carol Szuminsky from Peanut Butter Press

1:30 pm: POETRY with Kristian Enright, author of Sonar,
and editor Sharon Caseburg from Turnstone Press

2:30 pm: NON-FICTION with Don Marks, author of They Call Me Chief: Warriors on Ice,
and publisher Gord Shillingford from J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

And for members, and all those interested in becoming members:
The Annual General Meeting of the Writers’ Collective of Manitoba to follow at 3:30 pm.

Email us for more info.

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McNally Robinson 

Phone 204-475-0483   (Toll-Free 1-800561-1833)

April 6, 6:30 pm in Prairie Ink Restaurant

Enjoy our savoury, liver-healthy selections made with organic, whole foods, a special food demo by Chef Karen Nielsen, and cool jazz in support of the Canadian Liver Foundation.

Tickets: $99 (a minimum of $35 will be tax receipted)
Call 204-975-2659 or contact Ruth Magnuson at 204-831-6231 or e-mail

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April 9, 7:00 pm in the Atrium

The fourth installment in the ChiSeries Winnipeg series: readings with local authors Keith Cadieux (Gaze), Karen Dudley (Food for the Gods), and Ronald Hore (The Housetrap Chronicles). Hosted by Samantha Beiko (The Lake and the Library). 

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April 11, 7:00 pm in the Atrium

Apparitions, Beetlemilk & Cooties

This sketchy volume may appeal to an 8 to 12 year-old crowd that revels in rhymes preoccupied with themes of flatulence, parasites, ectoplasm, etc. 

Charmaine Johnson Putnam’s paintings have been exhibited at Manitoba Art Expo and she has self-published two children’s books. Some of her poetry and images have appeared in the Measured Words anthologies. 

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April 12, 6:00 pm in the Atrium

The Happy Old House 

The house jumps off its foundation and runs all over the place getting into mischief whenever its family leaves home. 

Sandi Sellen is committed to bringing the generations together, promoting family unity and relationships, leading to strong communities. 

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April 13, 2:00 pm in the Atrium

Life or Death: Surviving the Impossible

A mid-1800s slave squeezes into a 2’ x 3’ box and has friends mail him to freedom. Apollo 13 astronauts use spare parts to fix failed machinery and bring their spacecraft safely home.  This new collection features over 30 incredible true stories of survivors. 

Larry Verstraete is the author of many award-winning non-fiction titles, including Case Files: 40 Murders; Mysteries Solved by Science and At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times.

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April 14, 7:00 pm in the Atrium

Prayer Songs

Structured to reflect a moon cycle and influenced by traditional Anishinaabe cultural teachings, these poems explore different motivations and expression of prayer. 

Gord Bruyere has published poetry, short stories, articles, book chapters and reviews, and co-edited Wicihitowin: Aboriginal Social Work in Canada. He posts to his blog The World According to Trixterboy. 

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April 15, 7:00 pm in the Atrium

Miles Macdonell Collegiate - launch of Pulse

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April 15, 8:00 pm in Prairie Ink Restaurant

Wanda Koop is a comprehensive document of her most recent work, merging painting with photography, while highlighting her process as a visual language researcher.

Wanda Koop’s painting career spans four decades and includes over 50 solo exhibitions, across Canada and around the world. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and founder of Art City, an inner-city art centre in Winnipeg. 

LCP: Wagner, Mayor & Dempsey

A Radical League of Canadian Poets Fundraiser, featuring Bernadette Wagner with Chandra Mayor and Shawna Dempsey, will be held at Aqua Books on 

Wednesday, March 23, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

Cost: Pay what you can

This year's fundraiser will feature poetry, performance art and protest songs.

In addition to the militant marching band and a one-night-only revival of the Winnipeg Tarot Company, we'll also have a raffle chock-full of bookish prizes.

Come and have your fortune told by a poet!!

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Bernadette Wagner's work has appeared in journals, anthologies, and magazines and on radio, television and film, in schools, on stages, in the streets and on the web.  This hot place, a collection of poetry, explores the personal as political and the political as personal.  It received a Saskatchewan Book Award nomination. 

Chandra Mayor's writing has appeared in several anthologies, including Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood; Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, and Post-Prairie.  Her first book, August Witch: poems, won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. 

She received the 2004 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer, and her novel, Cherry, won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. Her story, All the Pretty Girls, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was shortlisted for a 2008 CBC Literary Award. 

In a collaboration that has spanned well over a decade, Winnipeg multi-disciplinary artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have created a body of internationally acclaimed work that addresses feminist, lesbian, and social concerns with biting wit.

Write Poetry with Chandra Mayor

The Writers’ Collective offers a Workshop - Poem as Spark: Fanning the Flames - with acclaimed Winnipeg-based poet Chandra Mayor.

According to Chandra... "Inspiration" is a terrible word, not least because it's so abstract and pseudo-mystical as to be virtually meaningless . . . come explore!

The class takes place on Saturday, December 11 

from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm 

at the University of Winnipeg

$15 for Writers’ Collective members

$30 for non-members.

To register contact Michael Van Rooy

at writerscollective@uwinnipeg.ca

or phone at (204) 786-9468. 

Have a great day. How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!

Write Scripts with Danishka Esterhazy

The Writers’ Collective offers a Beginners Course in Scriptwriting with Winnipeg-based writer/director Danishka Esterhazy!

The class takes place on Saturday, December 4 

from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm 

at the University of Winnipeg

$15 for Writers’ Collective members

$30 for non-members.

To register contact Michael Van Rooy

at writerscollective@uwinnipeg.ca

or phone at (204) 786-9468.

Danishka Esterhazy has written and directed several short films including the National Screen Insititute Drama Prize winner The Snow Queen.  In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Kodak New Vision award and she was recently shortlisted for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. 

Black Field, her first feature film, premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and won the Best Canadian Feature award at Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival. 

Black Field received a Canada-wide theatrical release in the summer of 2010.  

Have a great day. How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!

Lansdowne Series: Jan Horner, Ted Landrum, Barb Schott

The Lansdowne is Manitoba's largest poetry prize. 

Aqua Books, in conjunction with the Writers' Collective of Manitoba, is presenting this series celebrating the best in Manitoba poetry. 

This year's winner, Jan Horner, will kick off the series on Wednesday, October 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Jan Horner’s most recent collection, Mama Dada: Songs of the Baroness's Dog won the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Prix Lansdowne de poésie at the 2010 Manitoba Book Awards. 

This follows recognition for her second collection, Elizabeth Went West, which was short listed for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and her first, Recent Mistakes, which won the award. 

Jan’s poems have been published in many literary journals.  She was the University of Western Ontario writer-in-residence in 2001-2002.

Ted Landrum began experimenting with poems to ruffle the implications of architectural musings flirting beyond the veil of lucid tunnel vision.  In 2010, his trio of poems on the problem of architecture were inserted in a collection of academic essays. 

Barbara Schott's work as a fashion stylist in the garment industry frequently takes her to the Orient.  She also edits poetry for Prairie Fire magazine.  She is the author of The Waterlily Pickers and Memoirs of an Almost Expedition. 

Have a great day.  How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!

WECC - Dave Bidini: Home and Away

Come to a book reading and performance by Dave Bidini on October 13 at 8:00 p. m. at the West End Cultural Centre. 

An Evening of Readings and Music to celebrate Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer. 

Tickets are $10.00 in advance and $13.00 at the door and can be purchased at the West End Cultural Centre, Ticketmaster, Music Trader or the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store.

Have a great day.  How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!

Writers' Collective: Workshop with Michelle Berry

The Writers' Collective invites you to a Workshop with Michelle Berry on Saturday, October 16, from 10:00 a. m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Cost: $15.00 for members

         $30.00 for non-members. 

Celebrated Ontarian Michelle Berry talks about short stories, novels and writing in general. 

Come learn about stories from this nationally renowned writer. 

For more information or to register contact 

writerscollective@uwinnipeg.ca

or call 786-9468.

Have a great day.  How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!

Crimes and Thrills with Lee Lamothe

Learn about the art of writing crime, true crime and thrillers from internationally respected journalist and novelist Lee Lamothe.

His workshop, Crime, True Crime and the Art of the Thriller, will be given on Tuesday, June 22, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg.


Cost: $15 for Writers' Collective members, $30 for non-members

To register:
Michael Van Rooy at writerscollective@uwinnipeg.ca
or by phone at (204) 786-9468.

A journalist known for his investigations into organized crime, Lee Lamothe travels widely in Asia and Europe from his base in Toronto.

Lee Lamothe is the author of three novels: Free Form Jazz, The Finger's Twist and The Last Thief, as well as several non-fiction books, including the bestsellers The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and The Rise of Vito Rizzuto and Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of Mafia's Royal Family.



From the Free Press review of The Finger’s Twist:

“...Enter Lee Lamothe. Never heard of him? Maybe not, unless you’re a true-crime fan and have come across his several Mafia tracts, most recently The Sixth Family. Well, this Toronto journalist, in only his second swing at the fiction bat after 2003’s The Last Thief, has knocked one out of the Rogers Centre.
In The Finger’s Twist, he’s penned not only the best Canadian mystery/suspense release of the year, but a yarn light-years beyond anything the American stars have produced.”


Have a great day. How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!

Aqua Books: Writers' Circle Wrap Up Cabaret

After a year of working hard, it's time to celebrate all the wonderful writing!!

The Writers' Circle Wrap Up Cabaret will take place on Wednesday, June 9, from 7:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. at Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg.


Writers' Circle Participants, come and share your work!
All other members of the Collective, and the general public, are also invited to come and hear Winnipeg's Next Writing Idol!


For more information:
Michael Van Rooy, Writers’ Collective Program Coordinator
at writerscollective@uwinnipeg.ca
or by phone at 786-9468

Have a great day. How can you miss - you're in Winnipeg!