LitChat

USING CINEMA TO CREATE MORE AND BETTER POEMS by ALEXANDRA OLIVER

2012-01-14T16:19:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY FEB 12, 7.30 -9.00p.m. Homegrown Hamilton, 27 King William Str.
ALEXANDRA OLIVER was born in Vancouver and currently lives in Toronto. She has been nominated for a CBC Literary Award and the Pushcart Prize. Her poetry regularly appears in journals worldwide, and her first collection, Where the English Housewife Shines, was published in 2007 in London, England. She has performed her poems at Lollapalooza and The National Poetry Slam, and on CBC Radio One and National Public Radio, and was a featured performer and interviewee in the 1998 documentary, Slam Nation. Oliver is currently completing an MFA at the University of Southern Maine and co-editing (with Annie Finch) an anthology of poetry in non-iambic meters. Her second collection is due out soon.

CAMARADERIE OF WAR by SUSAN EVANS SHAW

2011-12-11T13:54:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY JAN 8, 7.30p.m., Homegrown Hamilton, 27 King William Str.,
Until 1999, Susan Evans Shaw was a research technician in Health Sciences at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. She now chooses to apply her skills to writing and history. Her father and her husband were both geologists. Their influence helped cultivate her interest in the past, but the real catalyst was the discovery of her grandfather's letters, written home during World War 1. Susan and photographer Jean Crankshaw co-authored Heritage Treasures: The Historic Homes of Ancaster, Burlington, Dundas, East Flamborough, Hamilton, Stoney Creek and Waterdown published by James Lorimar and Company. The book won the 2004 Arts Hamilton Award for non-fiction. In 2011, Canadians at War: A Guide to the Battlefields of World War 1 with photographs by Jean Crankshaw and others, was published by Goose Lane Editions. Susan lives in a Hamilton high-rise with her two cats, Lottie and Maui.

STORIES ON A DECEMBER EVENING

2011-11-09T16:49:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY DEC 11, 7.30p.m.-9.00p.m.
Homegrown Hamilton, 27 King William Street.
In the LitChat tradition, you are welcome to read your story in our spirited company to warm up this December evening.

THE REWARDS AND CHALLENGES OF BEING A PLAYWRIGHT with Stephen Near

2011-10-05T19:28:00.000-07:00

TUES NOV 8,8.00p.m. at Homegrown Hamilton, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton.
STEPHEN NEAR is a Hamilton-based playwright, performer, and educator, and a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, Theatre Ontario and the Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators (CODE). He has studied with Sheldon Rosen, Floyd Favel, Linda Griffiths and David Copelin. Stephen’s plays include Quintessence (Reaching Symmetries Theatre, Finalist – 2000 Toronto Fringe Festival New Play Contest), Shadow Court (In The Moment Theatre), Out Of Character (In the Moment Theatre), Monstrous Invisible (Monkeyman Productions) and Test (Monkeyman Productions). His newest play Interface won 1st Prize in the Hamilton Fringe Festival New Play Contest and was produced as part of the 2011 Festival. Stephen is the Artistic Director of Hamilton's Reaching Symmetry Theatre, a current member of the Theatre Aquarius Playwrights Circle and the Program Director of the Hamilton Arts Council.

WHAT MAKES FICTION WORK

2011-09-21T03:38:00.000-07:00

TUES. OCT 11, 7.30-9.00p.m. LitChat at Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton with R.W. MEGENS.
We will discuss the elements of fiction that make it appealing and enduring for readers. You are invited to bring passages or books that have writing that made them enduring in some way.
R.W. Megens' book of poetry, The Infinite Ache, was published by Serengeti Press. Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker, said this about the collection: “I was aroused by R.W. Megens’ titillating poems. They celebrate the connection between personal happiness, sexual fulfilment and intimacy.” Megens has edited seven anthologies of Kairos, a collection of poetry and prose – one of which published a short story awarded The Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland Stewart Journey Prize. He won the Hamilton and Region Literary Award and the Prickly Poetry Contest

SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING - THE REALITIES FOR AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS

2011-08-02T13:45:00.000-07:00

TUES SEPT 13
7.30p.m.-9.00p.m.
Homegrown Hamilton, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str., Hamilton
NOELLE ALLEN is the publisher of Wolsak & Wynn a small press based in Hamilton and is also the chair of the board for gritLIT: Hamilton's Literary Festival. Join us and Noelle for an evening of discussion and interaction.

PLAY PRODUCTION: LET'S TALK ABOUT IT

2011-05-13T14:21:00.000-07:00

TUES JUNE 14. 7.30-9.00p.m. at Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str., Hamilton
MATTHEW BANDURA has had a love of theatre for all his life. He was initially only interested in acting having done 3 years of Theatre Aquarius Summer program (Sweeney Todd, Evita and Grease) and other high school and community plays. At McMaster University he worked as an assistant stage manager for the Honour Performance Series’ Casket Case. The next year he got his first major role in Merit, also part of the HPS. He was then in Black Box Fire’s Man Beast Tango and the Hamilton Fringe Festival’s Purple. Most recently Matthew was one of the directors of Stressed: A Musical Review as part of the Major Production Workshop. He also co-adapted and co-directed The Yellow Wallpaper, which won four awards including Best HPS Production. He is now a graduating with an honour’s degree in English and Theatre & Film.

WORK AND WRITING

2011-04-17T05:51:00.000-07:00

TUES MAY10 7.30p.m - 9p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King william Street, Hamilton.
CHRIS PANNELL gives us an insight into a life on work, writing and more.
Chris Pannell is part of the organizing committee for the Hamilton reading series Lit Live and also serves on the board of Hamilton’s annual gritLiT literary festival. He is a former Treasurer of the Kairos Literary Society, a former Chair of the HARAC Literary Committee, and a former board member of Hamilton Artists Inc.

He has published three poetry books Drive (2009), Under Old Stars (2002) and Sorry I Spent Your Poem (1999). In 2010 Drive won both the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Prize and the Arts Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year. Pannell is also the author of a set of three poetry broadsheets entitled Fractures, Subluxations and Dislocations which won the Hamilton & Region Arts Council poetry book award in 1997.

In 2009 he appeared at Wordfest, the Banff-Calgary International Literary Festival, In 2010, he read at the Authors at Harbourfront Series in Toronto and also at the University of Prince Edward Island. For over fifteen years he has been an active promoter of poetry and creative writing through workshops and public readings, at which he has appeared across Canada and in England.

From 1993 until 2005 he ran the new writing workshop at Hamilton Artists Inc. and edited two book-length anthologies from the group, Your Baggage is in Buffalo and Between a Dock and a High Place. In the fall of 2009 he restarted the new writing workshop and continues to run it to the present day. His poems and articles have been published in many Canadian literary magazines and in England too.

EDMUND WILSON

2011-03-06T13:55:00.000-08:00

TUES APRIL 12, 7.30p.m.-9p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street.
DAVID COHEN will lead a discussion on EDMUND WILSON, the late great American critic, novelist, playwright, journalist, historian.
David Cohen is a writer. He won the Short Article - Non Fiction award at the Arts Hamilton Literary Awards 2010. When not writing, he helps organize activities and events for the Hamilton chapter of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. In the past, he worked as a journalist and publicist. David was born in Montreal, migrated to Toronto in the late sixties and has resided in Hamilton since 1980, where he lives with his wife, the artist Marcia Labelle. Their daughter, Jenny, a mezzo soprano, will give a recital with pianist Michael Rose on May 15 at the First Unitarian Church on Dundurn South. David also gardens, badly, and feeds birds. He loves to cycle long distances and is a fan of bike racing. He has worked as a bike-racing journalist.

CANCELLED FOR MARCH 8

2011-02-09T03:00:00.000-08:00

THE FUTURE OF POPULAR POETRY IN CANADA

2011-01-15T08:13:00.000-08:00

FEB 8, 7.30p.m.-9.00p.m., Bread & Roses Cafe, 27 King William Str., Hamilton.
JAMES DEAHL will lead in a discussion on the future of popular poetry in Canada: a consideration of the prospects for People's Poetry and Confessional Poetry in the 21st century

TWO WINGS MAKE A BIRD;TWO SLICES MAKE A SANDWICH

2010-11-30T17:30:00.000-08:00

JAN 11, 7.30p.m.-9.00p.m. at the Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str. GARY BARWIN leads in a discussion/workshop on collaborative writing.
Participants get to try different techniques with each other, drawing on a range of different collaborative works.

STORIES ON AN EVENING IN DECEMBER with ADAM GETTY

2010-11-11T08:24:00.000-08:00

Tues Dec 14, 7.30-9.00p.m. 27 King William Street.
Bring with you a story to tell or read to warm us up on a cold dark night in the heart of the city. The company of LitChat regulars and visitors is in itself a gift in the tradition of a LitChat Christmas.

TEACHING WRITING - Can it be one? How and Why?

2010-10-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

TUES NOV 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, 27 King William Street
ELLEN S JAFFE talks about her writing workshops with children and adults, and invites people to share their own experiences – of teaching they have done and workshops they have taken. What works and what doesn’t? How has taking a workshop, teaching a writing course, or mentoring/being mentored affected your own writing?
Ellen is a Hamilton writer, who came to Canada from the U.S. in 1979. She writes poetry and fiction (including y/a novels), and drama, and has also written a book on writing, Writing Your Way: creating a personal journal. (Sumach Press, 2001). Ellen has worked with “Learning/Living Through the Arts” and has received Artist in Education grants from the Ontario Arts Council, as well as doing other teaching in Hamilton, Toronto, and elsewhere in Ontario – including the Six Nations Reserve and Moose Factory. She has studied with bill bissett, Patrick Lane, and Jane Hirshfield. She also had a grade two teacher who commented on her drawing: “That is not a tree. Make yours as nice as Linda’s!” (at least, that’s how she remembers it) – and this has influenced her

2010-09-18T07:57:00.000-07:00

2010-08-12T19:07:00.000-07:00

Tues Sept 14, 7.30-9.00p.m.
Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street
LitChat the literary salon brings you our local author Trevor Cole with the topic "Practical Jean: How Inspiration Trumped Research". He will share on how ideas can lead up to the writing of a novel. Trevor spent 14 years in the Globe and Mail's magazine division and a three year stint as a senior writer at Report on Business Magazine. He has won many awards. His books include Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life and The Fearsome Particles. His third novel Practical Jean, is a black comedy about a woman whose mother has just died of cancer and vows to spare her friends the same sort of end. It will be released in Sept 2010. For further details go to his website www.trevorcole.com

INDUSTRIAL POETRY

2010-05-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

TUES JUNE 8 2010, 7.30p.m. Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str.
ED WOODS introduces INDUSTRIAL POETRY and shares on how his life experiences led him to be the poet he is today. He is an active member of Tower Poetry Society. His book Poetry and Other Unfortunate Non-fiction was published in 2009.

ELLEN JAFFE ON TEACHING WRITING -rescheduled to Nov

2010-04-04T09:47:00.000-07:00

TUES MAY 11, 7.30p.m. 27 King William Street
Can it be done? How and why?” Ellen S. Jaffe talks about her writing workshops with children and adults, and invites people to share their own experiences – of teaching they have done and workshops they have taken. What works and what doesn’t? How has taking a workshop, teaching a writing course, or mentoring/being mentored affected your own writing?
Ellen is a Hamilton writer, who came to Canada from the U.S. in 1979. She writes poetry and fiction (including y/a novels), and drama, and has also written a book on writing, Writing Your Way: creating a personal journal. (Sumach Press, 2001). Ellen has worked with “Learning/Living Through the Arts” and has received Artist in Education grants from the Ontario Arts Council, as well as doing other teaching in Hamilton, Toronto, and elsewhere in Ontario – including the Six Nations Reserve and Moose Factory. She has studied with bill bissett, Patrick Lane, and Jane Hirshfield. She also had a grade two teacher who commented on her drawing: “That is not a tree. Make yours as nice as Linda’s!” (at least, that’s how she remembers it) – and this has influenced her teaching

SMALL TOWN ONTARIO, STRATFORD 65 YEARS AGO

2010-03-11T17:30:00.000-08:00

Tues April 13, 7.30p.m.
Bruce A. Woods is a retired minister who lived in Stratford for 16 years. His book Between Two Women addresses two audiences - his readers and the inhabitants of another invisible world made up of guardian angels and the Greek Gods of Mythology. He uses this literary technique for side-splitting humour, beguiling his reader into a mystical, almost religious experience.

LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES: the Fictional and the Real

2010-02-10T19:25:00.000-08:00

Tues Mar 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 KIng William Str. David Cohen a teacher and an activist (local stuff, Middle East)who dabbles in lit will lead in a discussion of THe Anthologist by NIcholson Baker and The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. Philip Larkin.

NEWFOUNDLAND WRITING

2010-01-14T18:05:00.000-08:00

Tues Feb 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str.
Jeanie MacFarlane, a longtime book reviewer and freelance writer, will share on Newfoundland Writing, having spent many summers there.

YOUR VOICE AND POETRY

2009-12-07T10:07:00.001-08:00

Tues Jan 12 2010, 7.30p.m. at Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street. Voice your thoughts on poetry, why you like them or why you don't, and why you choose to write poetry if you are a writer. The topic READING POEMS AS A PATH TO WRITING POEMS with Marilyn Gear Pilling will be rescheduled to another date.

STORIES FOR A CHRISTMAS EVENING

2009-10-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

Tues DEC 8, 7.30p.m. at Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre,27 King William Str. It is our yearly tradition at LitChat to gather around for and with stories to warm up the evening. Bring a story to share with us if you have one.

"Giller Night" at the Sky Dragon

2009-10-14T06:14:00.000-07:00

Tues NOV 10, 7.30p.m.
Bread & Rose Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str, Hamilton.
"Giller Night" at the Sky Dragon Centre. A discussion on books and your views on Canadian writng. Our previous scheduled discussion on NewFoundland Writing with Jeanie MacFarlane will be moved into 2010.

WHITHER PRINT?

2009-09-08T20:40:00.000-07:00

Tues Oct 13, 7.30p.m.
Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre.
27 King William Street.
If newspapers are dying, where do the next Charles Dickens-es come from? And is it just the newspaper, or are all forms of printed text in danger of extinction or, at best, ghetto-ization? Our guest host Jeff Mahoney has been a writer/reporter/columnist with The Hamilton Spectator for 21 years. He has done a number of jobs from visual arts writer and reviewer to humour columnist. Jeff also teaches an English course at Brock University in St. Catharines, called Reporting And Writing For The Mass Media. He was born and raised in Montreal and lives in Hamilton with his wife and two children.

When Translation Must Become Interpretation

2009-06-15T07:43:00.000-07:00

Tues. Sept 8 7.30p.m., 27 King William Street, Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre.
Poet and editor James Deahl explores the main problem with translating Classic Chinese poetry. Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he has been living in Canada since 1970 and has taught creative writing and Canadian literature. James Deahl now lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

James Strecker on Poetry, death and horrors beyond words

2009-05-12T19:33:00.000-07:00

June 9, 7.30p.m, Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street.
Manitoba-born James Strecker is the author or editor of two dozen books, a human development consultant trained and certified in the Intensive Journal, Focusing, and Graphoanalysis, a retired publisher and college professor, a freelance journalist, columnist, workshop presenter, occasional artist, and Director of Creativity Unlimited Consulting.

POETRY WITH ADAM GETTY

2009-04-18T03:14:00.000-07:00

Tues May 12, 7.30p.m. at Bread and Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street. Adam Getty, author of Reconciliation and Repose will lead the discussion on the future of poetry. This is a follow-up to The Way Poetry Goes.

THE WAY POETRY GOES

2009-03-13T03:53:00.000-07:00

Tues April 14, 7.30p.m.-9p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, 27 King William Street.
… an open discussion for poets and anyone interested in the direction poetry is going and its significance now in our culture. Is poetry a more personal form of expression above other written forms? How much do we value poetry? Do people care for it? All are welcome to share and learn in the discussion.

TRUE CRIME IN FICTION

2009-02-11T07:15:00.000-08:00

Tues March 10, 7.30p.m. Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street.
Many contemporary fiction writers have drawn successfully from true crime. What are the concerns writers face when using such potent real world material? Sally Cooper, author of the novel Tell Everything, will discuss true crime in fiction, referring to works by such authors as Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, AM Homes and Lynn Crosbie.

Clubbing Resolutions and the Benefits to Book About

2009-01-13T19:15:00.000-08:00

Tues Feb 10, 7.30p.m., Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street. Sophie Gorski and Joan McGaw from the Hamilton Public Library introduce the new programme for this spring, the Book Club Roadshow.

WRITING FOR LIFE/WRITING FOR A LIVING

2008-11-18T18:21:00.000-08:00

Tues. Jan. 13 7.30p.m., Bread & Roses Cafe, 27 King William Street.
Katrina Simmons, a writer for more than thirty years finds that writing is a solitary pursuit, but behind every published writer is a team of people: editor, copy editor, proofreader, publisher, marketer, maybe even a retailer, webmaster, or broadcast network. They set a deadline for your words, have their own idea about what will make your work appeal to your target audience. How does this environment affect your message, and the way you feel about the creative process?

CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES

2008-11-13T03:49:00.000-08:00

Tues. Dec 9, 7.3op.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street. Gather round with your ghost stories in the company of good spirited storytellers. Everyone is welcome to scare us with a story you wrote or have read.

HAMILTON AT WAR: ON THE HOME FRONT

2008-10-15T18:14:00.000-07:00

Nov 11 2008, 7.30p.m at Bread & Roses Cafe, SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street.
Take a look back in history as Margaret Houghton shares with us "Hamilton at War: On the Home Front". Ms. Houghton is the Special Collections archivist at the Hamilton Public Library and author of several books including Hamilton: Panorama of Our Past, Downtown Hamilton: The Heart Of It All and The Hamiltonians.

Re-reading the classics

2008-09-09T04:53:00.000-07:00

LitChat meets on Tues Oct 14 2008 Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str., Hamilton. J.S. Porter will take us back to find the magic of the classics. He is the author of The Thomas Merton Poems, Spirit Book Word: An Inquiry into Literature and Spirituality, and Thomas Merton: Hermit at the Heart of Things. He also writes book reviews for the Literary Review of Canada and the Globe and Mail.

The Poetry of Loss

2008-08-12T05:36:00.000-07:00

Tues. Sept 9 2008, 7.30p.m. 27, King William Str., Hamilton
Poet and publisher James Deahl will share "The Poetry of Loss". Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, James Deahl has been living in Canada since 1970 and has taught creative writing and Canadian literature. He now lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Jean Rae Baxter talks about PLAYING WITH SHAKESPEARE

2008-05-04T05:31:00.000-07:00

Tuesday June 10, 7.30p.m., Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street.
How many thousands of people have owed their livelihood to Shakespeare? How many books have been devoted to the plays he wrote, or didn’t write, or may have written? How many theories have there been about his love life, his religion, and the years for which no records exist? Now, with Looking for Cardenio, Jean Rae Baxter has entered the lists. In this mystery novel she examines the puzzle surrounding a play last seen in 1613. There are scholars who would sell their soul for an authentic manuscript of Cardenio. There are others who would kill.

UK POETRY

2008-04-10T18:06:00.000-07:00

Tues. May 13, 7.30-9.00p.m. at SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton. Paul Sutherland visits from England and will lead us into UK poetry. He is the editor of the poetry magazine Dreamcatcher.

COMING AT YOU IN 2008

2008-02-16T14:35:00.000-08:00

Tues April 8, 7.30p.m.SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street, HamiltonJeanie MacFarlane discusses recent and upcoming trends in fiction and non-fiction and how those efforts ripple out into other areas of popular culture such as film and new work on the net.

ASK THE PUBLISHER

2008-02-13T18:01:00.000-08:00

Tues March 11, 7.30p.m. at SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton.Meet Maureen Whyte, the publisher for Seraphim Editions. Have your questions answered and also get her vision and feel the pulse of publishing in Hamilton.

COMING AT YOU IN 2008

2008-01-10T03:56:00.000-08:00

Rescheduled to April 8.

THE DEATH BEAT

2007-12-01T17:50:00.000-08:00

Tues. Jan. 8, 7.30p.m.

SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton

Susan Clairmont, crime columnist from the Hamilton Spectator, shares with us the challenges and the rewards of writing about tragedies and about people who have suffered great losses or trauma.

CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES

2007-09-13T06:59:00.000-07:00

CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES
Tuesday DEC 11, 7.30p.m. to 9.00p.m.
LitChat meets at SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street Hamilton.
LitChat will be hosted by Susan Evans Shaw. You are welcome to share your ghost stories with us and get warmed up in the company of the lively and spirited litchatters.

LitChat with David Dent on "Mythology and Globalism: Old Gods in a New Age."

2007-08-28T19:37:00.000-07:00

Tuesday Nov 13
LitChat meets on from 7.30p.m. to 9.00 p.m. at SkyDragon Centre, 27 King William Street, Hamilton. David Dent leads a discussion on Mythology and Globalism:Old Gods in a New Age.
David Dent is author of Alex Webster and the Gods. More about David can be found at his website: http://www.daviddent.net/

LitChat with Chris Pannell

2007-08-28T19:32:00.000-07:00

LitChat meets on Tuesday Oct 9 from 7.30p.m. to 9.00p.m.at Boo's Bistro, 164 James Street South, Hamilton.
Our host Chris Pannell will lead a discussion - Some Notes towards an Essay on Contemporary Canadian Poetry.

LitChat on Independent Publishing

2007-08-06T11:29:00.000-07:00

LitChat

USING CINEMA TO CREATE MORE AND BETTER POEMS by ALEXANDRA OLIVER

CAMARADERIE OF WAR by SUSAN EVANS SHAW

STORIES ON A DECEMBER EVENING

THE REWARDS AND CHALLENGES OF BEING A PLAYWRIGHT with Stephen Near

WHAT MAKES FICTION WORK

SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING - THE REALITIES FOR AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS

PLAY PRODUCTION: LET'S TALK ABOUT IT

WORK AND WRITING

EDMUND WILSON

CANCELLED FOR MARCH 8

THE FUTURE OF POPULAR POETRY IN CANADA

TWO WINGS MAKE A BIRD;TWO SLICES MAKE A SANDWICH

STORIES ON AN EVENING IN DECEMBER with ADAM GETTY

TEACHING WRITING - Can it be one? How and Why?

INDUSTRIAL POETRY

ELLEN JAFFE ON TEACHING WRITING -rescheduled to Nov

SMALL TOWN ONTARIO, STRATFORD 65 YEARS AGO

LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES: the Fictional and the Real

NEWFOUNDLAND WRITING

YOUR VOICE AND POETRY

STORIES FOR A CHRISTMAS EVENING

"Giller Night" at the Sky Dragon

WHITHER PRINT?

When Translation Must Become Interpretation

James Strecker on Poetry, death and horrors beyond words

POETRY WITH ADAM GETTY

THE WAY POETRY GOES

TRUE CRIME IN FICTION

Clubbing Resolutions and the Benefits to Book About

WRITING FOR LIFE/WRITING FOR A LIVING

CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES

HAMILTON AT WAR: ON THE HOME FRONT

Re-reading the classics

The Poetry of Loss

Jean Rae Baxter talks about PLAYING WITH SHAKESPEARE

UK POETRY

COMING AT YOU IN 2008

ASK THE PUBLISHER

COMING AT YOU IN 2008

THE DEATH BEAT

CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES

LitChat with David Dent on "Mythology and Globalism: Old Gods in a New Age."

LitChat with Chris Pannell

LitChat on Independent Publishing

LitChat meets on Tuesday Sept. 11 2007 from 7.30p.m to 9.00p.m at Boo's Bistro, 164 James Street South, Hamilton.Dave Kuruc (Art Director) and Sarah Glen (Editor in Chief) from H Magazine will discuss Independent Publishing.

LitChat meets on Tuesday Sept. 11 2007 from 7.30p.m to 9.00p.m at Boo's Bistro, 164 James Street South, Hamilton.

Dave Kuruc (Art Director) and Sarah Glen (Editor in Chief) from H Magazine will discuss Independent Publishing.