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PAST STORE EVENTSThe Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry SeriesThe 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, and for the history of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie, click here. If you want upcoming events in the series, that's here. Thursday, January 21/10 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series This event is bilingual, featuring English-to-French translations of Calder and Mierau's work and French-to-English translations of Leblanc's work.
Saturday, December 3/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
Saturday, November 28/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
Wednesday, October 14/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
Thursday, April 9/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present the 2009 nominees. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective. For the history of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie, click here.
Thursday, March 5/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets.
Saturday, February 28/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets. This fourth installment in the series, offered in partnership with the Writers' Collective, includes 2007 Lansdowne winner Laurie Block and his guests.
Thursday, January 15/09 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets. This third installment in the series, offered in partnership with the Writers' Collective, features 2007 Lansdowne nominee Gaboury-Diallo. The evening will feature a bilingual reading from Gaboury-Diallo. Both Deerchild and Mayor's performances will include a poem translated into French specifically for the event by Charles Leblanc.
Born in Saint-Boniface, Lise Gaboury-Diallo is a professor of French and French literature at the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. She is the author of six collections of poetry: Subliminales (1999), transitions (2002), both short-listed for the Prix Rue-Deschambault, Poste restante : cartes poétiques du Sénégal (2005), short-listed for the Landsdowne Poetry Award; Homestead, poèmes du cœur de l'Ouest (2005), which won the first prize in the French poetry category of the 2004 CBC Literary Awards; L’endroit et l’envers (2008) and Parchemins croisés: la Genèse en peinture et en poésie /Crossworlds: a Genesis in painting and in poetry, in collaboration with the painter Monique Larouche, translations by Mark Stout (2008). Thursday, December 4/08 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets.
Thursday, November 27/08 7pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets.
Monday, April 21/08 7:30pmAqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / prix Lansdowne de poésie Nominees Aqua Books will celebrate the inaugural Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / prix Lansdowne de poésie with readings in both official languages. Aqua Books is very excited to be the sponsor of Manitoba's biggest poetry prize, which will be given out at the Manitoba Book Awards on April 26. EAT! bistro will be providing nourriture.
Thursday Jan 24/08 7:30pm 89 Princess St Sharon Caseburg is a poet, critical writer, and editor. She is co-founder of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in several Canadian literary journals, including Room of One’s Own, Prairie Fire, and The Antigonish Review. Winnipeg poet Lori Cayer's first collection of poetry Stealing Mercury was published by The Muses Company in 2004. She was the recipient of The Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book in 2004 and The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer in 2005. Lori is currently co-editor of poetry for the literary journal CV2 and is the Manitoba Representative for the League of Canadian Poets. She is co-founder of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. By day Lori works as an Editorial Assistant for a National Research Council Scientific Journal. She is presently compiling her second poetry manuscript. Karen Clavelle is a literary writer, poet, and publisher (Atelier 78), who looks forward to spending part of the summer looking for poems from the back of a big black motorcycle. In addition to writing motorcycle poems, she has written long poems, several series of shorter poems, and several chapbooks (pachyderm press), as well as critical articles on prairie writers. With Atelier 78, she produced and published Three Days in Spain (2005), a small anthology of international writers' work. She is also the producer of The Archaeology of Water (2004), a print project that brings together five prairie poets and two print-makers. Besides teaching at the University of Manitoba, Karen is nearing completion of a large archival project, working on a collection of miscellaneous poems, and producing hand-made books. She is honoured to have been a member of the steering committee for the Lansdowne Poetry Prize. Clarise Foster is the Managing Editor of CV2, one of Canada's premier poetry quarterlies and the author of two collections of poetry, Flame Tree and most recently The Way Boys Sometimes Are and Other Poems. Ariel Gordon is a writer and editor. This past fall, Ariel was the blogger-in-chief of HOT AIR, the official blog of THIN AIR, Winnipeg International Writers Festival. Her poetry has recently appeared in Canadian magazines and anthologies and circulated on buses in both Manitoba and Alberta. She is also a regular contributor to the Winnipeg Free Press' Books Section. Bev Greenberg is a regular contributor to the book pages of the Winnipeg Free Press and Prairie Fire. Her poetry has appeared in Diviners, Inversions: The Female Grotesque, Outreach Connections, Poetry in Motion and Visual Poetry II. She recently completed a novel manuscript about an immigrant family in crisis during the late 1960's. Chandra Mayor is the award-winning author of three books, August Witch: poems, Cherry (a novel), and All the Pretty Girls, a collection of short stories to be released this March. She was the 2006/07 Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg public library, and is the Poetry Co-Editor for Prairie Fire Magazine. Maurice Mierau's second book of poems, Where to Find Help When..., will appear with Turnstone in the fall. Maurice recently became associate editor for a new Winnipeg-based fiction imprint, Enfield & Winzenty. He is the president of the League of Canadian Poets. An editor, writer, teacher and activist, Deborah Schnitzer is most recently circulating in the long poem lovinggertrudestein Loving Gertrude and the novel gertrude unmanageable. She is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. |
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Charles Leblanc. Né à Montréal en 1950, arrivé au Manitoba en octobre 1978. Titulaire d’un baccalauréat en sciences sociales, d’un baccalauréat spécialisé en économie et d’un certificat en traduction, a touché à de nombreux métiers : professeur et chercheur en économie, barman, serveur, co-propriétaire de bar, comédien de théâtre professionnel, organisateur d’événements culturels, ouvrier industriel et traducteur. Chroniqueur littéraire à l’hebdomadaire local La Liberté. Participation à de nombreuses pièces de théâtre à Montréal et à Winnipeg, à titre de comédien et de dramaturge. Auteur de sept recueils de poésie et co-auteur d’un récit, tous publiés aux Éditions du Blé. Dernier titre : des briques pour un vitrail (anthologie) (2008).
Alison Calder is the author of one poetry collection, Wolf Tree (Coteau Books, 2007), for which she won the 2008 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Ghost Works, a chapbook that she co-authored with Jeanette Lynes, was launched by JackPine Press in December 2007. She teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba.
Maurice Mierau is the Millennium Library Writer-in-Residence for 2009-10. His latest book of poems is Fear Not (Turnstone Press, 2009), which won the 2009 Relit Award. Mierau's first book of poetry was Ending with Music (Brick, 2002). He is also an editor at the Winnipeg-based fiction imprint, Enfield & Wizenty, and a journal editor.
Born in Saskatchewan, Lori Cayer has made Manitoba her home since she was in grade 3. Her book of poems, Stealing Mercury (The Muses' Company, 2004), won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award in 2004 and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer in 2005. She is co-founder of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Lori serves as a Poetry Editor for CV2 and is the Manitoba Representative for the League of Canadian Poets. Her second book of poetry, Attenuations of Force, is forthcoming from Frontenac in spring 2010.
Clarise Foster is the editor of Contemporary Verse 2 and the author of two collections of poetry. She most contentedly resides in Winnipeg with her two dogs and two cats.
K.I. Press' most recent book was Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau Press, 2006). She's currently caring for her new baby and normally teaches creative writing at Red River College.
Jennifer Still’s first book of poetry, Saltations (Thistledown Press, 2005), was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her poetry has been published in journals across Canada, broadcast on CBC and anthologized in portfolio milieu and Fast Forward: Saskatchewan’s New Poets. In 2008 she was a regional winner in the CBC Poetry Face-Off and received an inaugural Saskatchewan Emerging Artist Award. Jennifer's second collection, Girlwood, forthcoming spring 2011 with Brick Books, won first prize in the 2008 Saskatchewan Writers Guild John V. Hicks Manuscript Awards and the poems “The Hummingbird Vignettes” and “Moth” were finalists in the 2008 CBC Literary Awards. Another long poem from this collection, “Tracks”, received honourable mention in the 2008 Matrix LitPop Awards. Co-founder of Saskatoon chapbook publisher JackPine Press, Jennifer has recently made Winnipeg her home again.
Originally from The Pas, Manitoba but now residing in Winnipeg, Claire Still combines the art of storytelling with both clever musicianship and powerful performance in a variety of styles with the blues genre at the forefront. She is motivated by an intense desire to share music she feels is relevant and meaningful and connect with the audience through a documentary style of songwriting which confronts issues such as social inequality and substance abuse. She defines and expresses herself as a worker and channels their plight through a unique and intimate solo acoustic performance. Claire Still is a gritty young artist with something real to say and an expressive guitar style to say it with.
Colin Smith is a poetry scalawag. Books = 8X8X7 (Krupskaya, 2008) and Multiple Poses (Tsunami, 1997). More current work pops up in CV2, The Collective Consciousness, and Dandelion. Rarely meets a curse he doesn't like.
Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Prairie Fire and CV2. She is the co-founder and remains a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective, established in 1999. Rosanna currently works a broadcaster with NCI-FM and is a regular columnist with CBC. This is a small northern town, Deerchild's long-awaited full-length collection of poems, was published by The Muses' Company in fall 2008. In addition to winning the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, Rosanna was also been nominated for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.
Waubgeshig Rice is a broadcast journalist and writer currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He's originally from Wasauksing First Nation, a beautiful Ojibway community on Georgian Bay in Ontario. He developed a passion for storytelling at a very young age, learning about his culture and traditions through stories the elders told. His journalism career began when he spent a year as an exchange student in Germany at 17. He sent stories about his experiences as an Ojibway kid in Europe to a local Ontario newspaper. He graduated from Ryerson University's Journalism program in 2002, and has since been published in national newspapers and magazines. He currently works as a television reporter for CBC News. He cites growing up on the rez as his greatest learning experience.
Nereo II has been active in the local Spoken Word and Hip Hop community since the early 2000s and has shared his impassioned and adventurous performances across the country at events like the Scribble Jam Hip Hop Festival, the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, the Toronto International Poetry Slam, and the Speak series in Halifax. His work has appeared in The Filipino Journal and on CBC Radio's "Content Factory," and in May of 2008 he won the Winnipeg CBC Poetry Face Off. Currently Nereo II works for Graffiti Art Programming and runs a hip hop studio workshop for youth in Point Douglas.
Sarah Klassen's sixth poetry collection, A Curious Beatitude (The Muses' Company, 2006) was short-listed for the Lansdowne Poetry Prize and received the Canadian Author's Association Poetry Award. Her second short story collection, A Feast of Longing (Coteau, 2007), received the High Plains Fiction Award. Sarah was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides there.
Méira Cook's most recent book of poetry, Slovenly Love, was published by Brick Books in 2003. She is the editor of Field Marks, a selection of poetry by Don McKay published in the Wilfred Laurier University Press Poetry Series in 2006.
Catherine Hunter teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Winnipeg. For ten years she was the poetry editor of The Muses' Company Press. She is also the author of seven books, including the poetry collection Latent Heat (Signature Editions, 1997), which won the Manitoba Book of the Year Award in 1998. Her most recent work is the crime novel Queen of Diamonds (Turnstone Press, 2006).
Di Brandt has published a dozen books of poetry, creative essays and a novel. Her most recent book of essays is So this is the world & here I am in it (NeWest Writers as Critics X, 2007) and her latest book of poetry is Now You Care (Coach House, 2003). Watermelon Syrup (WLUP, 2007), a novel she co-wrote with Annie Jacobsen and Jane Finlay-Young received the international Foreword Magazine Gold Medal for General Fiction. Di recently completed an opera libretto, Emily, The Way You Are, about the life and work of Emily Carr, which was set to music by Jana Skarecky and premiered at the McMichael Gallery in Toronto last spring. Di Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair at Brandon University.
Laurie Block is an award-winning writer and storyteller from Brandon Manitoba. His work has been produced on the professional stage, published in anthologies and magazines throughout Canada and in three volumes of poetry including Governing Bodies; the bilingual collection, Foreign Graces / Bendiciones Ajenas; and, most recently, Time Out of Mind, published in 2006 by Oolichan Books, which was awarded the inaugural Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. His stories have won Prairie Fire's Fiction Contest, the 2004 National Magazine Gold Medal Award and a 2008 Western Magazine Award Gold Medal. 
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, was short-listed for four Manitoba book awards and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. She received the 2004 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer, and the following year her novel, Cherry, won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. The title story from her most recent book, All the Pretty Girls (conundrum, 2008), was shortlisted for a 2008 CBC Literary Award. Chandra Mayor lives in Winnipeg.
Née à Saint-Boniface (Manitoba), Lise Gaboury-Diallo est professeure de langue française et des littératures francophones au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (MB). Elle est l'auteure de 6 recueils de poésie : Subliminales(1999), transitions (2002), tous deux en lice pour le Prix Rue-Deschambault; Poste restante : cartes poétiques du Sénégal (2005) en lice pour le Prix Landsdown pour la poésie; Homestead, poèmes du coeur de l'Ouest(2005), oeuvre pour laquelle elle a remporté le premier prix, catégorie poésie française, des Prix littéraires Radio-Canada 2004; L’endroit et l’envers (2008) et Parchemins croisés: la Genèse en peinture et en poésie/Crossworlds: a Genesis in painting and in poetry, en collaboration avec la peintre Monique Larouche, traductions de Mark Stout (2008).
John Toone's first book of poetry, From Out of Nowhere, will be published by Turnstone Press in 2009. Two children's books that he wrote will be published in the U.S. by Bluewater Productions. John is the President of the Manitoba Writers' Guild, and father to two rambunctious kids.
Jan Horner has published two books of poetry and a chapbook. Her first book of poems, Recent Mistakes, (Turnstone, 1988) won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award. In 2001/2002 she was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Her latest book of poems, Mama Dada (or songs of the Baroness's dogs), will be coming out from Turnstone Press in spring 2009. She works as a librarian at the University of Manitoba, is a fan of English football, and is trying to learn German.
Dennis Cooley, a native of Saskatchewan, has lived for many years in Winnipeg where he teaches, edits, and writes. His latest book is correction line (Thistledown, 2008).
Kerry Ryan lives and writes in a blue house in Winnipeg. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals and in the anthology Exposed, published by The Muses’ Company in 2003. The Sleeping Life is her first collection of poetry. She is an avid sleeper and a birdwatcher by association.
Sally Ito's two books of poetry are Frogs in the Rain Barrel (Nightwood, 1995) and A Season of Mercy (Nightwood, 1999). She is also the author of an accomplished book of short fiction, Floating Shore, which came out from Mercury in 1998. Sally teaches English and creative writing at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg.
Poète Christian Violy a fait ses études à l'Université Laval (Québec), où il a obtenu un baccalauréat en littérature d'expression française en 1996 et une maîtrise en littérature québécoise en 1999. Il a remporté l'un des Grands Prix des saisons littéraires (catégorie essai) par Guérin éditeur en 1996 pour une œuvre intitulée Du rire à l'enchantement – d'après l'œuvre de Francis Jammes. Il est également l'auteur de Les silences immobiles (2000), Avant la chute (2002) et Exaucée (2007), recueils de poésie publiés au Éditions des Plaines.