Date: Sunday, October 30, 2011
Time: 3:00 pm
Event: Poetic Justice Reading Series, reading with Sandy Shreve
Location: Heritage Grill
447 Columbia Street, New Westminster

Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011
Time: 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Event: Hot Sonnets – 14 Vancouver Poets
Location: W2 (the old Woodward’s Building, downstairs)
111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

Join us at a launch of this funky project by Catherine Owen, a 14 month calendar featuring photos of 14 Vancouver poets by Patrik Jandak with a 14 line poem by each. The calendar is part of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary celebrations. The launch will include a reading by several of the poets (the calendar poem plus one other) and a ticket costs $20 which includes a free calendar. Poets in the calendar are Maxine Gadd, Fred Wah, Steve Collis, Miranda Pearson, Warren Dean Fulton, Diane Tucker, Catherine Owen, Judith Copithorne, Sonnet L’Abbe, Heidi Greco, C.R. Avery, George Bowering, Sandy Shreve and Kate Braid.

Dates: Saturday, July 16, 2011
Event: Reading with Clyde Reed on Jazz Bass
Denman Island Readers and Writers’ Festival
Location: address tba
Denman Island, BC
With other writers: Gurjinder Basran, Daphne Bramham, Anne Cameron, Wayde Compton, Bernice Friesen, George Fetherling, Paul Headrick, Evelyn Lau, Andrew Nikiforuk
For Details: see www.denmanislandwritersfestival.com

Date: Friday July 15, 2011
Time: 9:30 to 12:30
Event: Working it Out: The Radical Power of Writing Our Work
Denman Island Readers and Writers’ Festival
Description:
This workshop will explore people’s experience of “work” in its widest definition. Whether you’ve done homework, childcare, clerical or professional work or manual labour, you’ve become an “insider,” an expert in that craft – which means you’re highly qualified to write about it. You may be surprised at how much you have to say – and how important it is that you say it, in either prose or poetry.
Location: address tba
Denman Island, BC
This festival also features: Gurjinder Basran, Daphne Bramham, Anne Cameron, Wayde Compton, Bernice Friesen, George Fetherling, Paul Headrick, Evelyn Lau, Andrew Nikiforuk
For Details: see www.denmanislandwritersfestival.com

Date: Thursday July 14, 2011
Time: 2:30 – 5:30
Event: Writing Workshops “Trans/forming: Playing with Poetry ”
Denman Island Readers and Writers’ Festival
Description:
Even those used to writing only prose may find that playing with words within strict guidelines can work magic on mundane language. Traditional poetry forms such as the sonnet, glosa and pantoum give guidelines within which poets have utter freedom. Formal poetry also throws an emphasis on sound that has the potential to change how you hear. This brief workshop will include a short talk on “What is form?” (including free verse); some hands-on exercises on writing formal poetry and a bit of work with rhyme and rhythm.
Location: address tba
Denman Island, BC
This festival also features: Gurjinder Basran, Daphne Bramham, Anne Cameron, Wayde Compton, Bernice Friesen, George Fetherling, Paul Headrick, Evelyn Lau, Andrew Nikiforuk
For Details: see www.denmanislandwritersfestival.com

Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Event: Reading with musician (musician tba)
Mayworks Poetry Festival of the Working Arts
Location: Nanaimo Museum
100 Museum Way
Nanaimo, BC
Time: 2 p.m.
With other writers: David Fraser, Kim Goldberg

Dates: Friday and Saturday, March 11, 12, 2011
Event: Words on the Water Writers’ Festival
With other writers:  Angie Abdou, Kevin Chong, M.A.C. Farrant, Shane Koyczan, Ian Mulgtrew, Patricia Robertson and Adam Lewis Schroeder
Location: Maritime Heritage Centre
621 Island Highway
Campbell River, BC
With other writers: writers tba
For Details: see www.wordsonthewater.ca

Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011
Event: Reading with Clyde Reed on Jazz Bass
Poetic Justice Reading Series
Location: Renaissance Books
43 6th Street
New Westminster , BC
Time: 4 p.m. followed by Open Mic
For Details: see www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116777478368949