Member News Bill Arnott Rocky Mountain Books launches the new edition of Bill Arnott’s WIBA Finalist, Gone Viking: A Travel Saga. Some LCP friends may know my poetic work through my nonfiction travel memoirs. To my delight, as a result of my exploration writing Gone Viking: A Travel Saga (RMBooks) I’ve been granted a Fellowship in the Royal Geographical Society of London. Fellow fellows? Darwin, Shackleton, Livingstone and Palin. #TooFun Thanks RGS! Gone Viking: A Travel Saga (Whistler Independent Book Awards Finalist) has just been awarded Finalist at the American Book Fest International Book Awards. Thanks IBA! This travel memoir spawned some award-winning poetry at Scars Publications Best of 2019, Pandora’s Collective, and anthologized in a range of lit journals including Long Con Magazine / Collusion Books and our own LCP! Frances Boyle My second poetry collection, This White Nest, was published by Quattro Books late in 2019, and was well-launched in Ottawa and Toronto. Other scheduled readings, including ones in BC and Ontario, have been cancelled or postponed due to the virus. But the book has already received several reviews, including one by Kim Fahner in Prairie Fire ,
and another by Allie McFarland on The Anti-Languorous Project Di Brandt Poetry in Progress 3.0—ONLINE! with Di Brandt Do you long for accurate, empathetic, professionally informed, imaginative reader response for your poetryin-progress? This is the workshop for you! Led by internationally acclaimed, award-winning poet, editor and teacher Di Brandt, this workshop is a follow up to the popular Contemporary Poetries and Poetry-in-Progress workshops, but is suitable for all skill levels and can also be experienced on its own. Participants should send in a portfolio of previously written poetry to the first class for group discussion (3-5 pages in any style, on any subject and at any level, from “amateur” and “emerging” to “professional”). October 15, 22, 29, November 5 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. (CDT)
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Literary Manuscript Masterclass— ONLINE! with Di Brandt This four-week Master Class is for emerging and professional writers with nearly finished booklength literary manuscripts in any genre. Here you may find expert editorial advice on your valuable work from multiple award-winning author and editor Di Brandt, in the
