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Posts by Paul Strickland:
“Recently I was interviewed by the CNC Student Association” said Graham Pearce, Creative Writing instructor and co-ordinator of the English Program at CNC. “Damon Robinson and Anubov Sharma asked me how I developed my teaching style. I told them my formal education had some bright spots, but, overall, the postmodernists had taken over the classroom. “When I…
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I first met Brian Fawcett during a visit to Vancouver for Expo ’86. I was a reporter for The Medicine Hat News at the time. Earlier in 1986, during a trip back to Medicine Hat, I had picked up a copy of The Globe and Mail in an airport newsstand. I was fascinated by a review in it of…
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The latest (Spring 2021) issue of ThimbleBerry, Art and Culture in Northern B.C., provides a cross-section of literary accomplishment, artistic creation, and aesthetic thinking in the region. For the magazine’s editors, Rob Budde and Kara-lee MacDonald, these accomplishments are vital to “societal well-being.” Their introductory “Letter from the Editors,” which starts in first-person plural but…
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Writer’s Block sessions, led by Marcus Sinclairus and Andrew Burton, have (since Covid) drawn good participation through Zoom technology. Sinclairus is a College of New Caledonia sociology instructor. Andrew Burton is the author of Daymares and other poetry collections, and a freelance creative writing instructor. Burton organizes the local Word Play literary reading events and is founder…
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Organizers of, and participants in, Word Play literary events used Zoom technology to overcome restrictions on the size of public gatherings and hold a poetry reading Sept. 24. From his home in the Hart, Marcus Sinclairus of the College of New Caledonia was moderator inviting participation from poets across a wide region and from…
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Jeanne Clarke Local History Awards ceremonies drew about 120 people to the Central B.C. Railway and Forestry Museum. There were four awards presented for publication of history books centring on Northern B.C. One was given to Curt Garland for Uphill Both Ways. The second was for Tyler McCreary’s Shared Histories: Wetswit’en — Settler Relations in Smithers, B.C. The third…
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“Postnorth brings together experienced poets and emerging writers,” said Graham Pearce, College of New Caledonia creative writing instructor, in his introductory remarks. He continued: Postnorth is an attempt to hustle passion and trouble onto the page. . . . Postnorth is a moment where anything can happen . . . . To the writers, I say this:…
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edited by Rob Budde. Prince George: Wink Books (at the UNBC Copy Centre), 2019. 28 pp. $10.00. This chapbook, containing the work of fourteen poets, begins with a quotation from Wong, “jail the stories & the storytellers, but they will keep speaking the night, until empire expires.” This is followed by an appeal from…
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A significant cross-section of northern B.C. literary and artistic talent is showcased in the Summer 2019 issue (Vol. 4) of the literary magazine, ThimbleBerry, edited by Kara-lee MacDonald of Fort St. John and Rob Budde of the University of Northern B.C. This cross-section is primarily, as the editorial introduction explains, the work of only…
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The Spoken Word event at Cafe Voltaire on Thursday, April 19th was Emceed by Erin Bauman and was held mainly to showcase Christina Kinnie’s self published book, Walking through the Layrinth; A Memoir. The selections Kinnie read dealt with women leaving difficult and often violent relationships, the guilt resulting from those relationships and…
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