![]() ![]() The Arusha Room is located on the first floor of Community Wise and is wheelchair accessible. No group workshopping, sharing, or reading aloud will be required. Writers will have the option to work independently or in small groups if they so choose. ![]() This workshop is introvert-friendly and mindful of the vulnerable nature of some of our most difficult poems. Please also refrain from wearing perfume/cologne so we can keep it a neutral, fragrance-free environment. Please be prepared to socially distance insofar as it is possible for the duration of this workshop. In solidarity with queer, sick, and disabled communities, Leah asks participants to seriously consider wearing a mask. This is an in-person workshop without livestreaming capability. ![]() This event is free with registration to members of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Leah will share from her own process and offer some of her pieces that have taken years to complete as examples.īring the poems you can’t quite seem to stop editing, that have sat ignored in your desk for years, or that don’t ever feel “good enough.” Let’s find out what “done” means to you, and get a little closer. We’ll explore strategies for answering the question “When is a poem done?”-and map out some ways to get there. Join poet and Canadian Writer-in-Residence Leah Horlick in this interactive workshop for Writers’ Guild of Alberta members. Finally, were talking about this.'' - Mette Bach, Plenitude magazine''It is not often that a collection of poems can be read like a. ![]() Please register using the form below (max. 'CrÃticas ''Leah Horlicks For Your Own Good may be the best book of poetry to come out of Canada this year.'' - Michael Dennis''Reading Leah Horlicks collection, I felt a sense of relief. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Back in America, fifteen years and three children later, John fails himself and his family as an entrepreneurial venture capitalist. Thus the limits of Margaret’s love begin to be tested right from the start. There are soon signs of danger, however, as John falls into a mute depression even before the nuptials. Margaret’s feminism takes her to England where she meets and becomes engaged to a Brit named John. Even the family’s most conventional character-Margaret, the much-burdened matriarch-asserts, “I’m not a doll in the house of my mother’s imaginings. ![]() With this novel of familial strife, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee Adam Haslett moves beyond cliché and immerses Imagine Me Gone in contemporary ideas about racial and economic justice in America-he does so by having each of the five family members serve as alternating narrators. To sum up Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) as a novel about an affluent family’s struggle with mental illness is to make it sound far more predictable than it actually is. ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up in post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride is determined to become a photographer. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. ![]() To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. ![]() ![]() With the help of a magazine columnist, Riku Nagase, she and her friends try to reveal the urban legend of the suicide song. When she finishes, Kanna commits suicide. Paperback (September 1st, 2015): $15. Anzu Natsuno hears her friend, Kanna, singing a weird song from the hall of their all-girls school.Free audio book that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes format for your portable. Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.Hearn was made a professor of English literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1895, and is today revered by the Japanese for providing significant insights into their own national character. ![]() ![]() ![]() This collection of supernatural tales includes "The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōīchi," "Ubazakura," and "Rokuro-Kubi," and other stories translated from old Japanese texts. Dutcher includes only the stories with research to back them up. "Kwaidan" is most commonly translated as weird or horror tales, but to assign one word to the people, places, ghosts and gods in this work, one can only use the word strange. Okinawa Kwaidan is a collection of 13 ghost stories. ![]() His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller of strange and wonderfully macabre tales. Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. “Shocking…Achingly poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an exquisite-even sadistic-sense of suspense." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post “A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” -NPR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe Brad will find the mysterious girl that lay helplessly in a coma that haunts his dreams at night. Maybe Jackie will find a savior in the mysterious man that wrote the letters. But Fate has a way of changing things, of righting the wrongs. For a brief moment the two lives come together in tragedy, only to be swallowed up by time and distance. ![]() The only thing that keeps him going is his search for the face that will save him from the torment of living from day to day. Brad Crawford wants more than anything to forge a life for himself after a fatal car accident leaves him broken and alone. Forced to live with a distant relative after a fire destroys her home, her only hope is the letters that might lead her to the one man who could save her. The year is 1972, decades before videos, cell phones and the internet, when a desperate person might still get lost among the busy and the uncaring. ![]() ![]() ![]() A generation earlier Sir Francis had been the only Brit with a knighthood in Hollywood, ‘the doyen of English society, chief script-writer in Megalopolitan Pictures* and President of the Cricket Club.’ Twenty-plus years later his career has not prospered. ![]() Since he moved to Hollywood, Dennis has lived with Sir Francis Hinsley. Several of our clientele have commented favourably upon it.’ Sir Francis Hinsley ![]() ![]() It is my combination of melancholy with the English accent. Here, grateful Americans pay to have their pet cats, dogs, parrots, goats and many other species embalmed, stuffed, buried or cremated. ‘He repined, despaired, fled,’ and got a (poorly paid) job at a pet cemetery (The Happier Hunting Ground) run by fast-talking, business-minded Mr Schultz, working alongside brisk Miss Poski. However, he didn’t like the life of a lackey to the Megalopolitan film studio. He was a budding poet back in Britain but was lured to Hollywood on the promise of extending his literary potential and making a lot of money. We are in the British expat community in Hollywood, California. (Miss Aimée Thanatogenos in The Loved One, page 70) In Hollywood with Dennis Barlow Aren’t you the friend of the strangulated Loved One in the Orchid Room? My memory’s very bad for live faces.’ ![]() ![]() A number of the units are 4-wheel drive for off-road travel. There are vans, sedans, trucks, buses, and trailers with a wide array of designs and styles. This book focuses on DIY vehicles, with most of the 80 or so shown here fitted out for the road by their owners, similar to the way that the homes in all of Shelter's building books were built by hand, by the owners. If you search for "van" on Instagram, you find scores of accounts such as #projectvanlife, with 1.2 million followers #vanlifecamper 472,000 followers, or #fosterhunting, 930,000 followers. In the last few years, either for reasons of practicality (high costs of rent or mortgages), change in lifestyle, or the search for adventure, people are customizing all sorts of vehicles for travel. ![]() If there's not a nomadic revolution going on today, there's certainly a nomadic movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with Michelle, his wife, David Baldacci established the Wish You Well Foundation that supports adult and family literacy in the U. A lifelong Virginian, Baldacci received his Bachelor’s degree from The Virginia Commonwealth University while he got his law degree from University of Virginia School of Law before practicing law in Washington.īesides being a prolific writer, Baldacci is also a devoted philanthropist. David Baldacci has written several books since childhood, after his mother had given him a lined notebook to write down all his stories. The first novel in the Will Robie series is THE INNOCENT which was released in 2012. ![]() In order to combat them, the government calls on the support of Will Robie, the stone-cold hitman who doesn’t question any orders and always nails down his target. In the Will Robie series, America has enemies -a group of ruthless people that the FBI, police, even the US military can’t stop. ![]() |