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.

Honoured to have been nominated for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts 25 Influential artists award by my colleague Kit Dobson (and by another, anonymous, member of Calgary’s literary community) — and to have in turn nominated Marni Strome for the same award. Recipients will be announced this coming weekend as part of Alberta Culture Days…