Events
The Creative Writing Research Group, The Faculty of Arts, The Writers Guild of Alberta and 100 Wines Present
A Celebration of Creative Writing Success
Date: Wed, Sept 8th, 2010 Time: 7:00pm, Readings at 8:00pm
Place: 100 Wines, 1109 Olympic Way SE, Calgary, AB
Wine pairings by David Walker of 100 Wines FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Department of English, Research Seminar Series 2010- 2011
All talks will be held in SS 1114, the Judith Sloman Reading Room, Department of English, from 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome.
Markin-Flanagan Program Celebrates Writers-in-Residence
Markin-Flanagan Writers-in-Residence Oana Avasilichioaei and Marcello Di Cintio
Thursday, September 16, 2010, 7:30 pm
Arrata Opera Centre, 1315 7th St. SW
Event is free and open to the public.
The Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program celebrates its Writers-in-Residence with a free public reading from incoming Writer-in-Residence Oana Avasilichioaei and outgoing Writer-in-Residence Marcello Di Cintio.
Avasilichioaei and Di Cintio read from a selection of their work at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at the Arrata Opera Centre (1315 7th St. SW). The reading is free and will be followed by a book signing and reception.
Avasilichioaei's work explores history, geography, multilingualism, translation, and textual and collaborative performance. Her books include feria: a poempark, a translation of Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu, Occupational Sickness and a collaborative work with Erín Moure, Expeditions of a Chimæra. A translation of Les Îles by Quebecoise poet, Louise Cotnoir, will be published as The Islands in 2011. Her recently completed manuscript, We Beasts, composes debauched poetic tales about a child, a tyrant and a wolfbat.
Award-winning travel writer Di Cintio has enjoyed stints abroad in West Africa, North Africa, India and the Middle East. He is the author of two full-length travelogues, Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa and Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran. Di Cintio is also a freelance magazine writer whose writing has also appeared in magazines such as The Walrus, EnRoute, Geist and Swerve. His current project is a book about communities in the world that live in the shadows of walls, fences, and other ‘hard’ barriers.