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WRITE ON! 85 YEARS STRONG! February 2007
CANADIAN Patrick Twomey:
AUTHORS Living The Lifestyle of Travel
ASSOCIATION Lanny Boutin
It’s always fascinating to observe
Alberta Branch Office:
where life’s diverse paths will lead
P.O. Box 52007
us. During his days as a history major
Edmonton, AB T6G 2T5
at the University of Calgary, Patrick
Twomey had no idea where his life
www.canauthorsalberta.ca
would lead him; literally that is.
E-mail:
mail@canauthorsalberta.ca “Tourism writing...is more than
glossy travel magazines.”
Web Manager:
webmanager
@canauthorsalberta.ca
It all started with one tour that snow- Our Next Speaker
balled into a career and an obsession CAA award-winner:
for travel. One that has sent him to Mieko Ouchi
The Branch Line Editor:
branchline travel, work and study in over 30
countries and created the basis for Mieko Ouchi is familiar to many Ed-
@canauthorsalberta.ca
numerous articles, a Spanish tour monton audiences as an award-
guide training manual for the Chilean winning actor, writer and director.
National Office:
Park Service and a book on skiing in She graduated from the acting pro-
Alec McEachern,
Canada. Ski Canada, a 192-page gram at the University of Alberta
National Director
guide published in 1998 by Trail- in 1992 and has gone on to work
320 South Shores Road
blazer Publications, is the complete
PO Box 419 in theatre, film and television.
guide to downhill ski, heli-ski, snow-
Campbellford, ON K0L 1L0 She is the current playwright in resi-
board and cross-country skiing across
dence for Red Deer College Theatre
Canada. It even includes 40 pages
www.CanAuthors.org Arts Program.
detailing individual ski runs.
Phone: 705-653-0323 Twomey’s most recent book Working Ouchi continued on page 3
Fax: 705-653-0593 and Living in Canada gives a broader
Toll-free: 866-216-6222 snapshot of our county. The 304-page
guide, published by Cadogan Guides Inside This Issue:
E-mail: (a subsidiary of The Sunday Times in
CAA Alberta News 2
admin@CanAuthors.org London) lists everything you need to 2
Contest News From National
know about visiting, living and work-
Fun Facts 3
CAA Memberships: ing in Canada, including visas, work 4
Writing for Children Competition
Regular - $159.00 per year permits and how to get your pet
Patrick Twomey Workshop 4
Student - $50.00 per year across the border. For Working and 5
Member Website Information
(GST incl.) Living in Canada, Twomey even con-
The Reader’s Nook 5
Membership can be paid in tributed many of the photographs, 5
Contest and Volunteer Info
something he said he doesn’t believe
full or by installments. Member News 6
he has the eye for. 6
Applications are available Member of the Month
from the Alberta Branch On the evening of Friday, January Course, Event and TALES Info 7
Membership chair, website, 26th he explained how obtaining the Exporting Alberta Award 7
or National Office. knowledge to lead a tour is easy; Alberta Branch Programs 7
Mark Your Calendars 8
Twomey continued on page 2
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News from National: Twomey continued from page 1
CAA Alberta News: The 5th Annual CanWrite!
it is the organization that is the
Conference Story Contest
Opportunities for you to challenge. Misplacing people is
branch out and participate This short story contest is open to all frowned upon and keeping them
ages and all Canadian and U.S. resi- safe can be difficult. His mountain
We Want You dents. Please note carefully the fol- tours for English visitors have
lowing guidelines: made him a reluctant regular at the
If you would like to put your 1. Short stories must be fiction, un- Banff hospital.
name forward to become a board published, and no longer than 1,500
member of the CAA Alberta He also stressed how travel writers
words in length.
Branch, please contact one of the 2. Entries should be typed and dou- and guides must mould their vocabu-
current board members and share ble spaced with the story’s title ap- lary to their audience, admitting that
your interest. pearing on each numbered page. with the right group he can easily
3. Please include a separate sheet slip back into his Irish accent.
We CanWrite! Together with your name, address, phone
number, email address, word count
If you would like to volunteer and title - as well as your payment
your time and talents, the Al- and a self-addressed stamped enve-
berta Branch is hosting Can- lope for the contest results.
Write!Conference 2008; contact 4. The entrant’s name must not ap-
a current board member to learn pear on the manuscript.
about committee opportunities. 5. The final deadline for entries is
We invite you to get involved February 28, 2007.
and we look forward to hearing The top ten selections will be pub-
from you. lished in an anthology to be launched
at our 86th CAA Annual Conference
in Ottawa on July 5-8, 2007. Tourism writing, he suggests, is
Annual General Meeting Notice more than glossy travel magazines.
The top three winners will also re-
ceive $500, $200 and $100 plus a His Chilean tourism guide, created
You are invited to attend the
free conference registration with no with the help of the Chilean govern-
Alberta Branch AGM on April
cash value. (Winners must attend the ment, is a how to designed to teach
27, 2007 at 8 pm in room 122 in
conference to receive this free regis- locals how to be tour ambassadors.
the Education South Building,
tration.) Judging will be completed He stresses that the people who have
University of Alberta.
through a blind process with final taken the course have not become
selections made by our contest judge. rich, but they are now in control of
Manuscripts will not be returned. their own destiny.
CAA Regular Meeting Fees: Results and story evaluations will
both be released in July. This project also taught him that
Members: FREE local tours must be created with lo-
The entrant’s fee is $15 Canadian per
First-time Guests: FREE story. Please make all cheques or cals in mind. Typically only six per-
Returning Guests: $10 money orders out to “Canadian Au- cent of the people in Chile are tour-
CAA Workshop Fees: thors Association” and mail your ists, and lots of them are backpackers
Members:$30 (1 day) entry to: CanWrite! Conference trying to live on a few dollars a day;
$60 (2 day) Story Contest, c/o Evan Kenney not the type of people to drop big
Non-Members: $60 (1 day) 32 Green Meadow Crescent money on tours.
$120 (2 day) Wetland, ON L3C 6X3. He also encourages travel writers to
For more info, please contact Evan think about, and even write about,
Unless otherwise designated, Kenney at tweed@allstream. net or
meetings are held in Room 122, the impact of globalization and travel
905-734-7180. on other cultures. In most countries
Education South Building, Uni- This year's guest contest judge is
versity of Alberta (87 Avenue tourism is welcomed, but we must
Sandra Bell-Lundy acclaimed always remember that it can also
and 112 Street). writer, creator, illustrator of the Be- throw off the fine balance between
tween Friends comic strip and the cultures by opening up the society
The Writers’ Circle: author of two best-selling book col- and drastically changing its demo-
Members meet at 7pm before the lections: Hello, Daughter and Coffee, graphics. The idea of ecotourism is
monthly CAA Friday meetings. Tea and Reality. You can visit her also a conundrum, especially for
Bring two double spaced typed website at: someone like Patrick, who may take
papers or a three minute reading. www.betweenfriendscartoons.com 70 airline flights in a single year.
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Ouchi continued from page 1
Winning Words ?
Mieko’s first full-length play, The Her television documentary on child
Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say music prodigies, Minor Keys, won Participating
Goodbye), published by Playwrights the Golden Sheaf for Best Biography English teachers
Canada Press in 2003, won the Documentary at the 2004 Yorkton submitted the
Canadian Authors Association’s Film and Video Festival. following analo-
Carol Bolt Prize in 2005. It was also gies and similes
nominated for Best New Play by the She has also directed award-winning found in high
Writer's Guild of Alberta as well as productions of Are We There Yet? by school essays:
by the Sterling and Betty Awards. In Jane Heather, a participatory play
2004, it was a finalist for both the 4 and workshop for teens about sexual- His thoughts tumbled in his head,
Play Reading Series at The Old Vic ity health education; and Naomi’s making and breaking alliances
Theatre, London, UK and the Gover- Road, based on Obasan by Joy Ko- like underpants in a dryer with-
nor General’s Literary Award for gawa. In 2001, she won the Sterling out Cling Free.
Drama. The play, a story about the Award for Outstanding Fringe Direc- He spoke with the wisdom that
healing power of music, dramatizes a tor for directing Slowly, An Ex- can only come from experience,
hypothetical exchange between 18th change Is Taking Place. like a guy who went blind be-
century Italian composer, Antonio cause he looked at a solar eclipse
Vivaldi, and his French patron’s Given her choice of subjects, Mieko without one of those boxes with a
wife, who is forced to take violin is clearly qualified to speak on the pinhole in it and now goes
lessons with Vivaldi so that her topic of Truth and Fiction: Writing around the country speaking at
husband can win a bet with King Plays about Real People. No doubt high schools about the dangers of
Louis XV. much of what she has to say will looking at a solar eclipse without
apply to other genres as well. one of those boxes with a pinhole
Mieko’s second play, The Blue in it.
Light, is about the life of German Friday, February 23 at 8:00 pm: John and Mary had never met.
propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefen- Mieko Ouchi Presents: Truth and They were like two humming-
stahl. Leni was blacklisted until her Fiction: Writing Plays about Real birds who had also never met.
death in 2003, at the age of 101, for People.
The young fighter had a hungry
her choice to work with the Nazi Members and first-time guests are
look, the kind you get from not
party. The play won honourable free. Non-members who have at- eating for a while.
mention in the 2004 and 2005 Al- tended previous CAA meetings are
berta Playwriting Competition and charged $5.00. The ballerina rose gracefully, en
received seven nominations at the Pointe, and extended one slender
leg behind her, like a dog at a
2006 Sterling Awards including Best Saturday, February 24 at 9:30 am –
fire hydrant.
Production and Best New Play. It is 4:00 pm: Living History Workshop
scheduled for publication by Play- Members $30 / Non-members $60; He was deeply in love. When she
wrights Canada Press this year. spoke, he thought he heard bells,
To register, call Janet: as if she were a garbage truck
Her award-winning films Shepherd’s 780-458-4662. backing up.
Pie and Sushi, By This Parting, He was as lame as a duck. Not
Samurai Swing, Paper Cut and Mi- Both events take place at the Univer- the metaphorical lame duck,
nor Keys, have played in 30 interna- sity of Alberta in the Education either, but a real duck that was
tional festivals, and aired on CBC, South Building, Room 122. actually lame, maybe from
Bravo!, W Network and DUTV in Everyone welcome; stepping on a land mine or
Philadelphia. we hope to see you there. something.
Did you know this...?
Keyboard Exercise: Worst Analogies
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and Taken From
"lollipop" with your right. High School
Poetry Pondering: Papers, The
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or Sacramento Bee
purple.
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political, economic, and cultural re-
On The Road With
The Writers' Union of Patrick Twomey
alities of a place.
Canada 10th Annual Rose Marie Sackela
Using the example of Viet Nam,
Twomey noted that The War must be
Writing For Children acknowledged in the writing. How-
Competition Don't let Patrick Twomey's relaxed,
ever, with a median age of 25.9, the
easy style of writing fool you. His
vast majority of the Vietnamese
Prizes: research is meticulous. His writing
population is too young to know that
$1,500 and entries of the winner is carefully crafted. On Saturday,
war firsthand.
and finalists will be submitted January 27th, Twomey led 25 par-
ticipants in large and small group So, The War does not colour the
to three publishers of books
writing activities. He also let them perceptions of most Vietnamese as it
for children.
in on his writerly secrets for Captur- does North Americans, and in par-
Deadline: ing the Essence of a Trip. ticular those from the United States.
Postmarked April 24, 2007. However, there are unexploded ar-
Twomey explained that travellers, be
Entry Fee: maments and pollution left over from
they armchair or not, need both accu-
$15 fee per entry. that time period, and the travel writer
rate statistics and sensory stimula-
has an ethical obligation to convey
Eligibility: tion. For the traveller to have a full
this information. That Viet Nam is
This contest is open to Canadian experience, the history and politics
predominantly Buddhist, has three
citizens or landed immigrants of a place is as important as immers-
distinctly different terrains, and al-
who have not been published in ing the reader in the cars, the noise,
most 3,500 kilometres of coastline
book format, in any genre, and the people, or the quiet.
are truths that bring back the magic.
who do not have a contract with a A travel snob he is not. Twomey is Patrick Twomey succeeded in show-
book publisher. Entries must be not just about the "high-end" travel ing that the best travel writing is the
written in the English language, of Fodor's or the "right way" to kind that acknowledges what is,
not previously published, and travel via Lonely Planet. Whether a while still capturing the magical es-
within the word limit of 1,500. tourist desires an all-inclusive or an sence of the place.
Please do not send illustrations or ecotour is not the point. Twomey's
entries with only a few sentences In this fast paced workshop, partici-
aim in travel writing is to add other
per page. pants also had the opportunity to
dimensions to either experience.
read the travel pieces they brought
How To Submit Entries: Whether or not the information
with them. Twomey pointed out
Typed, double-spaced and num- needed involves suspect or absent
the strengths in their many and var-
bered on 8.5 x 11 paper, not sta- infrastructure, or poverty instead of
ied writings.
pled. Submissions on computer plenty, travelers and travel readers
disk or faxes will not be ac- need to know. Patrick Twomey recommended Jack
cepted. Include a separate cover Kerouac's classic, On The Road, as
In this 9:30 am to 4:00 pm work-
letter with full name, address, one of his favourite travel books. It is
shop, Twomey led participants in
phone number, and number of evident that Twomey has learned a
small groups in learning how to use,
pages of entry. Please type name lot from Kerouac. Patrick Twomey
read, and interpret country fact
of entrant and title of entry on proved himself to be an informed,
sheets and maps in order to conjure
each numbered page. confidant, and open teacher, travel
up the real and interesting geo-
writer, and traveller.
Make cheque or money order
payable to The Writers' Union
of Canada. Multiple entries can
be submitted together and fees
can be added and paid with one Summer Travel Plans?
cheque or money order.
The Canadian Authors Association
Mail to:
WFC Competition 86th Annual CanWrite!
90 Richmond Street East National Conference 2007
Suite 200
July 5-8, 2007
Toronto, ON M5C 1P1.
Ottawa, Ontario
Results will be posted at:
www.writersunion.ca. For more information, visit:
Manuscripts will not be returned. www.canauthors-ottawa.org
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is much less than what you will pay
Website Q & A: for a personal website elsewhere.
The Reader’s
CAA Members are Third, you can take over the mainte-
nance of your website, do your own Nook
getting a real deal Reviewer:
Keith Dixon design and make changes at will.
You don’t have to wait for a web Marg Stephen
master to respond to your request.
Did you ever think you could Murder in Mexico
benefit from having a website, And you don’t have to know HTML.
Author: Cora Taylor
but were put off by high cost and What would you like to put in a Publisher: Coteau Books, 2006
complicated technology? writer’s website? ISBN: 1-55050-353-7
The Alberta Branch of the CAA will Your website can include samples of “Isn’t it about time we switched
help you set up your own personal your work, your writer’s CV, a list of seats again?’’ Maggie asked. Jen-
writer’s website. You simply need to achievements, promotions of your nifer knew better than to pretend
provide some bite sized information books, a synopsis of courses you that she didn’t know or to say it
about you as a writer, a few photo- teach . . .anything related to your
wasn’t time. That would have
graphs, and you’ll be there for read- career as a writer. been a lie, and Jennifer had to
ers, editors and publishers around the watch that. Ever since she’d
Have a look at our current CAA
world to Google. If you act now you found the old parchment and tried
members’ websites. Go to http://
will benefit from our introductory the invisibility spell even the tini-
canauthorsalberta.ca/ and click on
rate of only $36 per year. “members websites” in the naviga- est fib would cause her to disap-
Why should you have a website? tion column. pear. Not exactly a good thing to
happen on a crowded airliner.
Because you are a writer! The big- For an excellent article by a journal-
gest reason is that a website is a ist on what kind of features work Cora Taylor’s opening introduces
writer’s most effective marketing best in a writer’s website go to this two of the three main characters
tool. It makes you look more profes- address: http://www.timbete.com/ and gets the reader wondering
sional, shows you’re serious about CreateWebsite.html. how the invisibility spell will af-
your work, and above all makes fect the outcome of the story.
So what are you waiting for?
you accessible. These are crucial Maggie and Jennifer Arnold are
factors when editors are reviewing Every day that passes without you
thirteen-year old identical twins,
your work. having a website could mean missed
though they wear their hair differ-
contracts or lost readers!
Why should you choose a website ently: Maggie’s is short, Jenni-
within the CAA website? Getting started is as easy as contact- fer’s is past her shoulders.
ing the web manager and telling him Maggie is the organized studious
There are several good reasons. First, what you want. one; Jennifer struggles with
by being linked to the CAA you have
Contact Keith: schoolwork and often acts impul-
instant credibility because of your
call 780-438-2262 / email sively. They are on a trip to Mex-
association with a national writing
webmanager@canauthorsalberta.ca. ico with their grandmother,
organization. Second, the cost to you
Grand, and their friend and next-
door neighbour, Sam Elwin.
Short Grain Contest ‘07: Volunteer for Literacy Each chapter is written from the
Cash Prizes and Publication The Write Soon Literacy Society is a perspective of one of the teen-
in Grain Magazine non-profit organization providing agers. Their resourcefulness plays
volunteer tutoring for free to adults a large part in Murder in Mexico.
Three winners in each category re- with literacy issues. We currently They have learned that Jennifer
ceive $500 each. becomes invisible when she tells a
have clients in Gunn, Onoway,
Mayerthorpe and Sangudo who need lie and becomes visible when she
The winners are published in the Fall laughs. Grand had been told of
2007 issue of Grain. your help, please call 1-877-778-
9757 or email wsls@telus.net if you the invisibility spell in Adventure
Categories: would like to volunteer or would like in Istanbul and though she is con-
Prose Poem, Postcard Story, Long more information. We also require cerned that Jennifer may get her-
Non Fiction, Dramatic Monologue. donated office space in each loca- self into dangerous situations, she
tion, approximately one day a week; realizes the advantage of Jenni-
Deadline: February 28, 2007. fer’s ability to gather information.
tax deductible receipts are available
Details at: www.grainmagazine.ca. for partial rent value. Review continued on page 6
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Member portray their contradictions
Member News of the and inconsistencies.
Month: Her current project is an ambitious
Ted Bishop appeared in the
novel following a family through
January Playboy with Pamela Poet Linda
Anderson. No pictures, alas, four generations. Starting in Ontario
Jennings in 1936 and ending in the Yukon in
though he offered to do a photo
shoot as long as it was tasteful. As a CAA 1996, the characters have led her
Riding with Rilke: Reflections on member, Linda through Quebec, Alberta and British
Motorcycles and Books was Jennings ap- Columbia. They required her to
listed in Editors’ picks, The Best preciates the spend time in archives from Vancou-
of 2006: Twenty volumes you opportunities ver to Lennoxville, Quebec; forced
need to read. for skill development the organiza- her to study Canadian history; and
tion affords. She gives three spe- encouraged her to interview private
Jeananne Kathol Kirwin ap- cific examples. eyes and postal workers.
peared on the programs People First, as she left Lorna Crozier’s po- “They [the characters] won’t let me
Uncut and The Standard (aired etry writing workshop at the CAA’s rest! It all started as a simple enough
on BC OMNI TV and the Biogra- National Conference in Edmonton in story about a woman who discovers
phy Channel) on the evening of 1996, she picked up a Stroll of Poets a suitcase full of cards from her fa-
January 25th. The 24-minute brochure. “Interesting concept,” she ther that her mother had secreted
"uncut" interview was recorded thought. “Poof! I joined and started away for 50 years. Until that mo-
in November when Jeananne was writing poetry. Thus began a steep ment, she thought her father had died
touring Vancouver / Vancouver learning curve of poetry writing,” when she was four years old. Little
Island with her book Greetings she says. Ever since, she has en- did she know (and lots will you
From Cool Breezes as the Ex- joyed performing her poems at Stroll know) when I have completed this
porting Alberta 2006 winner. events. In 2001, her poem the exiled saga. Actually, it’s quite a soulful
was recorded by CBC radio in Ed- book that touches on many of the
Leanne Myggland-Carter co-
monton, and she was chuffed by emotional, situational and ethical
hosted Creative Words in re-
their decision to run it nationally. dilemmas we all face.” Stay tuned.
sponse to pain and trauma: find-
ing ways to move forward (a lec- She also highlights Shani Mootoos’ She has not devoted energy to pub-
ture on the healing potential of presentation on novel writing in lishing. This will change, however,
creative writing) on February 1st April, 2003 from which Linda when she retires a year from now.
in participation with The Friends gleaned “The reader wants to be be- She began writing in her late forties
of the University Hospitals and hind someone who will win – not while employed full time as a clini-
the Edmonton Lapidus Branch at because it’s easy, but because she/he cal social worker. The prospect of
the McMullen Gallery. has overcome obstacles.” more writing time excites her.
And, from Vern Thiessen in Febru- “Satisfaction from writing,” Linda
ary 2005, she took: know what your believes, “resides in the moments
characters would typically do in vari- when I step into the ecstasy that the
ous situations, but don’t be afraid to act of creativity creates.”
Welcome
Review continued from page 5
New Members:
Sylvia Chetner, Edmonton The three teen-agers encounter a
Cora Taylor
Greek billionaire who has his own
Anna Koop, Edmonton delights as she
yacht and his own limousine chauf-
reads to the
Vivian Mayne, Edmonton feured by the brother of a man who
crowd that gath-
Irene Meglis, Edmonton was murdered in Istanbul. Why is he
ered at Audrey’s
in Mexico? Is the Greek tycoon a
Andy Michaelson, St. Albert Books in Ed-
drug dealer? Part of the suspense
monton during
Gayle Schneider, Barrhead comes from not knowing whom they
the book launch
can trust. Grand and the teen-agers
Laurel Sproule, Edmonton of Murder In
outwit the criminals.
Harvey Walker, St. Albert Mexico on Oc-
This book would be excellent for tober 21, 2007.
Sheri-D Wilson, Calgary grades three to six.
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The MacEwan TALES
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Instructor: Tracy Cooper-Posey
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Travelling With My Pen
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WRIT 0151 (570) CCC
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relaxing evening of stories of all
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Instructor: Mary Oakwell sorts. Come to tell or to listen. First
visit free, thereafter 3.00 (helps pay commodation, and other out-of-
Games Writers Play province promotional expenses.
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$144, noncredit
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Past National Coordinator Writer in Residence
6 Wed, Mar 14 – Apr 18
6:30 – 9 pm Storytellers of Canada University of Alberta Bookstore
Instructor: Don Trembath www.sc-cc.com / www.storysave.ca 166 Students’ Union Building
9010 - 120 Street 8900 – 114 Street
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1X7
POET’S INK: Phone: (780) 433 2932
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New location and meeting day Email: mjfrost@shaw.ca T6G 2J7
Poet’s Ink will reconvene Thursday, www.members.shaw.ca/mjfrost
February 22, 2007, 7 pm – 9 pm at Contact: bowling@ualberta.ca
St. Thomas Café and Bistro (44 St. Discovery Cafe Winner Announcement: Alberta
Thomas Street, St. Albert). Share your insights and opinions or Branch Annual General Meeting
This change in location and day is a observe and be inspired April 27, 2007.
reflection of changes in entertain- Theme: Chance or Choice – What For further information, visit:
ment programming at our previous Designs Our Lives?
venues and the many requests from www.canauthorsalberta.ca.
Date: March 24, 2007
poets who found Sunday evenings an Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
impossible time to attend. Other Branch Programs:
Location: Grant MacEwan College
Our format remains the same: bring a City Center Bookstore
The Poetry Pocket Members
piece to read for gentle critique, if Celebrate language through
you wish; develop skills with writ- share and critique one another’s
song and verse poetry at monthly meetings.
ing exercises; write during breaks.
Host: Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck The Writers’ Circle Members
St. Thomas Café and Bistro is well Facilitator: Nancy Mackenzie meet at 7 pm before regular
known in St. Albert for its meals and Music: Carrie Hyrniw CAA meetings and short written
pastries, and offers wine, bottled Guest Poets: Ron Kurt, Alice Major, pieces are evaluated by peers.
beers, Italian Sodas, lattes and speci- Andy Michaelson, Barbara Mitchell,
ality coffees and teas. Julie Robinson, Audrey Whitson Writers in Schools Published
members go into classrooms in
Poet’s Ink is open to all poets at each Join in - be part of the dialogue! Alberta to introduce students to
gathering. Bring your pencil or pen, FREE Admission! the writing craft.
paper, your sense of humour and be
ready to write. Underground parking at Grant The Writing Roster Members
MacEwan on 105 Avenue and free on the roster cover events for The
For further information, contact two-hour parking on the street. Branch Line. A fee is paid for
Andy Michaelson:
“Wisdom begins with wonder.” -- work published. Contact the
andymichaelson@shaw.ca.
Socrates editor if interested.
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CAA ALBERTA BRANCH APPOINTED MEMBERS
Mark Your Calendars: BOARD MEMBERS
Web Manager &
2006 ~ 2007
Photographer
2007
ELECTED MEMBERS KEITH DIXON
780-438-2262
Feb. 23, 8 pm: Mieko Ouchi
Past President webmanager@
Truth and Fiction: Writing Plays
HELEN LAVENDER canauthorsalberta.ca
about Real People
Feb. 24, 9:30 am – 4 pm: Mieko 780-467-2924
hlavende@ Publicity/Promotion
Ouchi Workshop Living History
telusplanet.net MARION BROOKER
780-433-7704
March 3, 9:30 am: The Poetry
fax 780-432-7394
Pocket will meet in Albert's Res- President brookerm@telus.net
taurant, Londonderry Mall. Bring SUZANNE HARRIS
3 or 4 copies of your poems for 780-481-1863
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