January 2022 RCLAS Ezine Wordplay at Work, Issue 88

RCLAS Announcements RCLAS presents Tellers of Short Tales – Online Edition Feature Author Christina Myers Date: Thurs January 27, 2022 Time: 6:00 to 8:00pm Zoom room will open early for open mic sign up starting at 05:30 PM Pacific Time Let us know on the Facebook event page if you would like to attend.

OR you can RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com

The evening will include an Open Mic for short stories.

Space is limited.

FREE ONLINE ZOOM EVENT. Everyone Welcome.

Christina Myers is a writer, editor, and former journalist.

She was the editor of the IPPY-award winning anthology BIG: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies (2020), and the author of the novel The List of Last Chances (2021). She lives in Surrey and is currently at work on her next several projects including a novel, a collection of essays and a picture book. She is a fan of dresses with big skirts and red lipstick.

Visit website here: www.cmyers.ca

Poetic Justice Online Edition with Host Carol Johnson Date: Sunday February 13, 2022 Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Pacific Time) Featuring: Bernice Lever Benjamin Schmitt Open Mic sign up starts at 2:50pm Find more info on Poetic Justice Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/poeticjusticepnw To receive the ZOOM link contact secretary@rclas.com

Feature Bios:

Bernice Lever has published more than 10 books of poetry as well as short prose. She has read poems, across Canada, the U.S. and on four other continents, won four Lifetime Achievement awards and has been a stalwart of Canadian literature, actively involved with the Canadian Authors Association, League of Canadian Poets, Federation of BC Writers, World Poetry and local writer groups including being a long-time member of the Royal City Literary Arts Society.

Bernice lives on beautiful Bowen Island, British Columbia.

Benjamin Schmitt is the author of four books, most recently The Saints of Capitalism (New Meridian Arts, January 2022) and Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sojourners, Antioch Review, The Good Men Project, Hobart, Columbia Review, Spillway, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At The Inkwell. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children. http://benjaminschmittpoetr

Writing Workshop: RCLAS presents Walking Backwards into A Poem with facilitator Elee Kraljii Gardiner Date: Saturday Feb 19, 2022 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Pacific Time Zoom room will open early at 12:45 PM Pacific Time Register by email to secretary@rclas.com Workshop Fee: RCLAS Members FREE Non-Members $15 Payment by PayPal https://rclas.com/workshops/ Registrants will be emailed the zoom link

In this generative one hour-session Elee Kraljii Gardiner will lead participants through the creation of two new poems. We will look at antonyms, defiance, resistance and the emphatic “No!" as entrances into a poem that may, on its own terms, arrive at a place of positivity.

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and has edited two acclaimed anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Her writing has won or been shortlisted for the Cogswell Poetry Award, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, Montaigne Medal, bpNichol Chapbook Award, Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, Souster Award, Far Horizons Poetry Award, City of Vancouver Book Award, Lina Chartrand Award for Social Justice in Poetry and Pandora's Box BC Mentor Award. Elee is the founding director of Thursdays Writing Collective, which supported emerging writers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Originally from Boston, Elee now lives in Vancouver on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Peoples where she directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. eleekg.com

RCLAS presents Tellers of Short Tales – Online Edition Feature Author P.W. Bridgman Date: Thurs February 24, 2022 Time: 6:00 to 8:00pm Zoom room will open early for open mic sign up starting at 05:50 PM Pacific Time Let us know on the Facebook event page if you would like to attend.

OR you can RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com

The evening will include an Open Mic for short stories. Space is limited.

FREE ONLINE ZOOM EVENT. Everyone Welcome.

P.W. Bridgman’s third and fourth books—Idiolect (poetry)and The Four-Faced Liar (short fiction)—were published in 2021 by Ekstasis Editions. They were preceded by A Lamb in 2018 (poetry, from Ekstasis) and Standing at an Angle to My Age in 2013 (short fiction, from Libros Libertad). Bridgman’s writing has appeared in, among other outlets, The Maynard, The Antigonish Review,Grain, The Moth Magazine, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Honest Ulsterman, The Galway Review, LitroUK, LitroNY, and The High Window.

RCLAS presents In Their Words Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak Date: Thursday March 17, 2022 Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time Three Feature Presenters Zoom room opens at 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).

To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com You can also contact Ruth Kozak via Facebook.

SAVE THE DATES

Date: Sunday March 13, 2022 Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Pacific Time) Featuring: Kyle Hawke

Tellers of Short Tales – Online Edition March 24 - TBA April 28 - Carleigh Baker