The Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
The Aqua Lansdowne is Manitoba's largest poetry prize. Based around the award and hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, this series celebrates
the best in Manitoba poetry. For this year's nominees click here, for the history of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie click here, and for past readings click here.
Wednesday, March 17/10 7pm
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
Deborah Schnitzer with Marika Prokosh and Kristian Enright
Deborah Schnitzer’s work appears in several anthologies, including Children of the Shoah: Holocaust Literature and Education and Dropped Threads. She co-edited Uncommon Wealth: An Anthology of Poetry in English and, with Debbie Keahey, The Madwoman in the Academy: Writing on the Tower, a gathering of women’s writing about graduate school, teaching and tenure. She has published two books of poetry, Black Beyond Blue and Loving Gertrude Stein, and a novel, Gertrude Unmanageable. Her new book, An Unexpected Break in the Weather (Turnstone Press, 2009), is a novel of unconventional friendships in a Winnipeg neighbourhood. Schnitzer is a 3M Teaching Fellow in the English Department at the University of Winnipeg.
Marika Prokosh is a Winnipeg writer and English Literature undergraduate. Her poetry has appeared in Juice, the University of Winnipeg's creative writing journal. She was an apprentice writer in the Sheldon Oberman Emerging Writers Mentorship Program (2004), and is currently a volunteer organizer for the Speaking Crow open mic poetry series.
Kristian Enright is a writer who never escaped the concept of Winnipeg, where he has gotten an honors degree in Literature at his more miniature University of Winnipeg and has a kind of simulacra feeling of escape when he began his Master's degree at the University of Manitoba, out near the fields of the outskirts of this city. He has been a writer in residence at the former Label Gallery, has been published in Juice, Tart and recently added his own chapbook, Arguements for a Chapbook to the roster. He has plans to write a novel and hosts the Speaking Crow Reading series which he has been a part of for the past 9 years.
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