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The Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society offers programming for all levels and ages of writers, including youth. And until this Friday, December 8th, you can bid on some great fundraising items at their Youth Programs Silent Auction. All proceeds will support AWCS’ youth programs, and you will get a start on the dreaded Xmas shopping —…

Steve Passey’s Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock releases today and launches Monday, Nov. 6 at Owl’s Nest Books!

November is approaching, and with it comes the launch of comrade Steve Passey‘s first book of short fiction, Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock, new this fall from Tortoise Books. That’s at 7 PM on Monday, November 6th at Owl’s Nest Books, 49th Avenue and Elbow Drive SW, in the Brittania Shopping Plaza. I understand there will be refreshments…

  My flash story “Del” has been recorded as part of Season Two of the Manawaker Studios Flash Fiction Podcast. It comes it at under five minutes, and you can listen to it on the Manawaker blog, on YouTube or on iTunes . Many thanks to C.B. Droege for producing this. Enjoy!

Steve Passey’s hilarious guide to the hillbilly stars made me howl!

Full text of the review is now available at Thistledown’s website, here. Thanks to FreeFall Magazine and particularly to writer Jamal Ali for the review of my novel After You’ve Gone which appears in their current issue. The review itself isn’t online, but I encourage you to track a copy of the magazine down at a bookstore…

Steve Passey makes it official!

Regina author Anne McDonald is bringing her brand-new book, Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles, to Calgary! And I’m very pleased to be reading with Anne at Shelf Life Books, 1302 – 4 St. SW, at 7 PM on July 6th, along with Susan Cameron. Rea Tarvydas, of How to Pick Up a Maid…

Thanks to Domesday Notebook for the review of my first novel, Love Minus Zero. There’s life in the old girl yet, as they say. Read the review here: Dusting Off: Love Minus Zero

May is short story month, and I’m very pleased to be taking part in an all short story reading with some of my favourite writers: Barb Howard,  Astrid Blodgett and Lee Kvern; and our emcee for the evening’s events, Betty Jane Hegerat. Join us on Monday, May 15th at Owl’s Nest Books, 7 PM. We’ll be reading…