CURRENT EVENTS

  • An Aqua Books Winnipeg Exclusive
    Removing the Hutterite Kerchiefmore ]
  • Tuesday February 9/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker Coree Franciscomore ]
  • Wednesday February 10/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Valentine's
    - reservation onlymore ]
  • Thursday February 11/10
    7pm
    $12
    Clarence Two Toes CD Fundraiser
    - comedian Ryan McMahon, hosted by My Brother Wab and My Other Brother Waubmore ]
  • Friday February 12/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! DIY
    - kids' performer Al Simmons and VPW legend Natalie Pollock, with Household Hints from Handyman Rod and music by Cluster All-Starsmore ]
  • Friday February 12/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured tellers Kay Stone and Mary Louise Chownmore ]
  • Saturday February 13/10
    12pm

    The Deserter's Tale Launch
    - author Joshua Keymore ]
  • Saturday February 13/10
    2pm

    Pond Memories Launch
    - Kenora's Lil Anderson with Bardie the Owlmore ]
  • February 16-20/10
    Mondo!Kroetsch
    - Manitoba's only annual poetry festival celebrates the life and work of local icon Robert Kroetsch
  • Tuesday February 16/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    Mondo!Kroetsch Seed Catalogue Relay Reading

    - featuring Susie Moloney, Kerry Ryan, Rosie Chard, Leif Norman and many more [ more ]
  • Thursday February 18/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Mondo!Kroetsch
    - guests Jake MacDonald, Neil Besner and Robert Enright, with music by DJ Mama Cutsworthmore ]
  • Tuesday February 23/10
    7pm

    Poems of Manitowapow
    - poets Duncan Mercredi, Rosanna Deerchild, Katherena Vermette and Donna Beyer, hosted by David Robertson
  • Wednesday February 24/10
    7pm

    rEmiX MACHINA
    - author Jonathan Ball, with GMB Chomichuk, Patrick Short, John Toone and Colin Smithmore ]
  • Thursday February 25/10
    7pm

    Anthology Reading Series
    - Roewan Crowe, with Courtney Slobogian and Chandra Mayormore ]
  • Friday February 26/10
    7:30pm

    Magic of One presents
    Kiviuq

    - Vancouver storyteller Kira Van Deusen
  • Tuesday March 2/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring TBAmore ]
  • March 3, 4 and 6/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Intermediate Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonald
  • Friday March 5/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! High Life
    - High Life star Stephen Eric McIntyre, stunt coordinator Rick Skene and storyboarder Nicholas Burnsmore ]
  • March 10, 11 and 13/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Introductory Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonald
  • Wednesday March 17/10
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry series
    - poet Deborah Schnitzer with guests Marika Prokosh and Kristian Enrightmore ]
  • Thursday March 18/10
    7pm

    How Many Jewish Mothers?
    A Night of Jewish Humour

    - storytellers Alix Sobler, Moishe Goldenberg and Nurit Drory, with the easy listening harmonica of Sam Knackermore ]
  • Saturday March 20/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Storytelling Guild and Cabbages and Kings Radio present
    World Storytelling Day

    - storytellers Mary Louise Chown, Jane Enkin, Justin Jaron Lewis, Ron Robinson, Rebecca Hiebert, Wayne Drury and Kay Stone, with music by Patrick Keenanmore ]
  • Friday March 26/10
    7pm
    $10
    Telling Tales Spoken Lit Series
    Whale Tales to Balaam's Ass: Bringing Out the Animal in the Old Testament

    - storytellers Anne Morton and Rebecca Hiebert, with the Mennonite Blues of Bush Wiebemore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing/life seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm

    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology

    - editor Barbara Langemore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    Psycho Bitch

    - starring Tamara Lynn Robertmore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    TJ Dawe's Tired Cliches

    - starring Alex Eddingtonmore ]
  • Meet Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Rosanna Deerchild wins the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

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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 SchnitzerDeborah 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 ProkoshMarika 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 EnrightKristian 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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