Kootenay School of Writing
[309-207 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B 1H6 CANADA Phone: 604.313.6903 www.kswnet.org]
kim MINKUS 9 FREIGHT (LineBooks)
colin BROWNE The Shovel (Talonbooks)
maxine GADD Subway Under Byzantium (New Star)
Saturday February 23rd
Kim Minkus reads with Emily Fedoruk
launching Minkus’ 9 FREIGHT
@ 8:00 pm
Thursday February 28th
Colin Browne reads
launching The Shovel (Talonbooks)
@ 7:30 pm (please note early start-time)
Friday February 29th
Maxine Gadd reads
launching Subway Under Byzantium (New Star Books)
@ 8:00 pm
all events produced in cooperation with the publishers
all events at Spartacus Books
319 West Hastings
Admission: 3 – 5$, sliding scale
EMILY FEDORUK is a poet, dancer and bookstore cashier living in New Westminster. She studies English and Art and Culture at SFU and will pursue MA work next fall. Two recently published chapbooks, street still and still building, will be soon followed by a third.
KIM MINKUS is a poet, librarian and perpetual student, currently working on her Ph.D. in the department of English at SFU. In April 2006 she was awarded a library archives visiting fellowship to King’s College, London. Her research was both academic and creative and led to the creation of the poems that appear in 9 FREIGHT.
Co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing, COLIN BROWNE is an educator, documentary filmmaker and the author of numerous books of poetry including Ground Water, nominated for a Governor General’s award in 2002.
Born in the UK, MAXINE GADD was a red diaper baby who moved to Canada ‘s west coast with her family as a child. Her writing reflects an engagement with contemporary art and critical movements, alongside a connection to neighbourhood and community. Like many of her generation, she spent much of her young adulthood in motion, and lived on the Gulf Islands for significant stretches before settling into her adopted community in Vancouver s Downtown Eastside. She credits the Kootenay School of Writing with introducing her to many of the writers who fed her during the period between the publication of Lost Language (1982) and Backup to Babylon (2006).
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