Help celebrate the publication of THE CALGARY RENAISSANCE!

December 2nd 7:00pm at Pages Books!

Featuring readings by

HOLLIE ADAMS, CHRISTIAN BOK, WEYMAN CHAN, AARON GIOVANNONE, HELEN HAJNOCZKY, NAOMI K. LEWIS, JANI KRULC, NIKKI SHEPPY, NATALIE SIMPSON, EMILY URSULIAK and ANDREW WEDDERBURN

Edited by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan, and published by Ottawa’s Chaudiere Books, The Calgary Renaissance highlights some of the diverse and astonishing experimental poetry and fiction that has emerged out of the past two decades of Calgary writing. An essential portrait of some of the most engaged and radical of Canadian writing and writers from one of the country’s most important literary centres.

Contributors include: Hollie Adams, Jonathan Ball, Braydon Beaulieu, Christian Bök, Louis Cabri, Natalee Caple, Weyman Chan, Jason Christie, Chris Ewart, Aaron Giovannone, Helen Hajnoczky, Susan Holbrook, Ken Hunt, Jani Krulc, Larissa Lai, Naomi K. Lewis, Nicole Markotic, Suzette Mayr, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Sandy Pool, Sharanpal Ruprai, Ian Sampson, Jordan Scott, Nikki Sheppy, Natalie Simpson, Emily Ursuliak, Natalie Zina Walschots, Andrew Wedderburn, Julia Williams, Rita Wong, Eric Zboya, and Paul Zits.

Introduction by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan. Cover by Natalie Lauchlan and Nathaniel Mah. Designed by Christine McNair and Cameron Anstee.

there’s a little over 24hrs left in the auction for Arianne Jones’ helmet, which i created in support of Helmets for Heroes …

Over at Mount Royal University, Kit Dobson, Richard Harrison and i are developing …

Turkey’s HECE magazine features some of my visual poetry & an interview as part of a feature in issue 234/235/236

The University of Calgary’s Gauntlet takes an interest in The Calgary Renaissance…

No Press is proud to announce the publication of

teen memos

by petra schultze-wollgast

Published in an edition of 40 hand-bound copies, $5.00ea (incl. postage)

To order a copy, please email derek@housepress.ca

teen memos consists of 7 beautiful letraset-based visual poems, each constructed with a sensitive eye to balance and symmetry…

I will be teaching ENGL214 – Creative Writing at Alberta College of Art + Design this coming January / February as a modified block week class.

This course will provide students with guidance and constructive aid in the production of their own creative literary work. While a variety of instructional methods will be employed, such as lectures, discussions, directed written assignments, and the study of literary exemplars, ENGL.214 is primarily a workshop course. Students will be expected to work in multiple genres. Please note that this is not a course in commercial writing.

This course is open to current ACAD students, or students from any other Alberta Post-Secondary Institution FOR CREDIT (please check with your home institution for transfer credit details; Students from other institutions may take this course for transfer credit, providing they have a confirmation letter from their home institution and submit a copy of their transcripts).

Cost $487.99 (Canadian citizens – international fees apply).

Please contact CONTINUING EDUCATION at ACAD for registration information and details.

This course runs January 3 – 7 (Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat), 12:30 pm to 4:40 pm plus January 14, 21, 28 + February 4 (Saturdays), 12:30 pm – 4:40 pm.