Announcing the Line-up for the November 17th Show @ W2 Storyeum

WHERE: W2 Storyeum, located at 151 West Cordova Street between Cambie & Abbott.

WHEN: Wednesday November 17. Doors at 7pm. 1st reader at 745.

HOW MUCH: $5 at the door.  Cash bar.  Books for sale.

Winner of the 2010 Re-Lit Award for Poetry

Gillian Jerome:

Gillian Jerome’s first book of non-fiction Hope In Shadows, Stories and Photographs from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (with Brad Cran) won the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award and was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize.

Her first book of poems, Red Nest, was nominated for the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and won the 2010 ReLit Award for poetry. She teaches literature at UBC, poetry to kids at inner-city schools in Vancouver and runs workshops with Geist magazine.

Jenn Farrell Returns to the RVWS

Jenn Farrell:

Jenn Farrell is the author of two collections of short fiction: Sugar Bush & Other Stories, and the newly released The Devil You Know, both published by Vancouver’s Anvil Press.

Her stories have appeared in Prism, subTerrain, West Coast Line and Forget magazine. She is the two-time winner of the Vancouver Courier Fiction Contest, recipient of the 2002 Maclean-Hunter Endowment Prize for non-fiction, and a former contributor to CBC Radio.

Jenn works as a freelance writer, editor, and creative writing instructor in Langara College’s continuing studies program.

This will be Jenn’s second appearance at a Real Vancouver event. She appeared in February before her newest book, The Devil You Know, was released.

It’s an honour to be able to celebrate her work and her new book properly.

Representing the Cupcake Guild.

Cynara Geissler:

Cynara Geissler’s first chapbook of poetry, small, stunted ways, is forthcoming from Hur Publishing.

Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in a number of print and online magazines including Juice, Milo, Geez, Fatshionista, and Shameless.

While working with the Writers’ Collective, a Manitoba non-profit for writers, she helped organize Speaking Crow, Winnipeg’s longest-running open-mic poetry series.

She moved to Vancouver in 2009 to do the MPub and hang out with salty small press publishers. She provides half the lulz and pointed cultural criticism of Fatties on Ice, an independent podcast on pop culture and new media.

Reformed bookseller turned writer.

Chris Eng:

Chris Eng spent over a decade in journalism, writing for magazines like VICE and Punk Planet and editing Terminal City and Discorder before realizing the industry was killing him by inches.

Now, with his latest project, HoodieRipper.com, he is writing romance stories for punks and is much happier.

Chris is also one of the few & the proud booksellers who worked at the legendary Sophia Books store in downtown Vancouver before it closed earlier this year.

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Sarah's new book is Wax Boats from Caitlin Press.

Sarah Emily Roberts

Sarah Roberts is an award-winning writer and a graduate of the University of Victoria’s creative writing program.

She has worked as a pulp mill labourer, a writer for the Ministry of Forests, Aboriginal Affairs, freelanced for newspapers and magazines and has published as a ghost writer.

Her short stories have been published by literary journals in Canada, New Zealand, England and the United States.

She lives in Gibsons, BC, and is currently attempting to write a ‘Great Canadian Novel’.

Casually rocking the Vancouver Lit Scene.

Dennis E Bolen:

Dennis E. Bolen has published four novels, a collection of short fiction and so many book reviews, opinion pieces, rants, paeans, pans and all-round literary journalistic odds and ends it’s impossible to tell how many.

His upcoming novel-in-fragments, Anticipated Results, is due next April from Arsenal Pulp.

“If there is such a thing as a sensitive Bukowski, then Bolen is it…enough convincing debauchery to both shock and compel readers… A zombie cocktail of wickedly ironic humour.”
—Vancouver Sun

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Hates to Follow Chong at Public Readings.

Peter Darbyshire

Peter Darbyshire’s first book, Please, won Canada’s ReLit Award for Best Novel.

Much to his surprise, his second book, The Warhol Gang, received more positive reviews than negative (it’s a little out there).

Peter used to live in Vancouver but recently moved to Langley, which is far more entertaining than he’d expected (Stockholm Syndrome?).

He is currently at work on a new book called The Apocalypse Corpse. When not writing, he pretends to be involved in research by watching gunsight porn videos.

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Heather will be showcasing Visible Verse.

Heather Haley:

Heather Haley is a Vancouver poet, author, musician and media artist who pushes boundaries by creating across disciplines, genres and media.

She is the author of poetry collections Sideways and Three Blocks West of Wonderland, the director of videopoems Purple Lipstick, Bushwhack and How to Remain.

A renowned performer, Haley’s most recent CD of spoken-word songs, Princess Nut, was released in 2008.

Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, her video poems screened at dozens of international film festivals.

Heather is curating the 10th anniversary of the Visible Verse video poetry festival on Friday November 19th at Pacific Cinémathèque.

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Cris Costa:

Cris Costa lives in Vancouver as an ex-pat Torontonian.

She writes poetry and prose, and, from time to time, researches urban late-capitalist space and its relationship to subjectivity and perception.

She likes cats, but doesn’t have one.

You can follow Cris’ commentary on her blog, YourKeyed.

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Elee Kraljii Gardiner:

Elee Kraljii Gardiner directs the Thursdays Writing Collective in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

She is the editor and publisher of four chapbook anthologies and leads workshops on creativity, writing and editing.

Elee’s writing has appeared in Canadian and US publications.

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