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Geeking out at Heartwood Café for the ROOM Magazine issue launch

24 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Events & Appearances, Poetry, Publications

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Room launch Twitter 2I had a wonderful time at Room’s fall launch last night!

For the first set, Kayla Czaga read her heartwrenching/heart-warming nonfiction piece from issue 37.2, “Expanding the Voice.” Then Paula Lemke read a story that was recogonized with an honourable mention in the 2014 Room Contest – Fiction Category, and Kelly Thompson read a great nonfiction story that was also shortlisted for the competition this year.

The second set was for “the geeks,” when both Julia Dillon-Davis and I read poetry from issue 37.3, “Geek Girls.” Julia was an excellent reader of her own work, including her poem from the issue, “Rites,” which she introduced as a poem “about her decade-long obsession with Buffy.” This was met with complete approval, of course.

Room launch 5I read my poems from “Geek Girls” again (I previously performed them at WORD Vancouver). “Fairy Tales I” is about how hard it is to be a geeky grade six girl, and “Fairy Tales II” is about the power of having imaginary friends and a great brother. Then I read three other poems from my manuscript, The Brightest Thing. None of the extra poems had been tested in front of an audience before, and I was happy to have such a receptive audience! I read a poem inspired by “Hansel and Gretel,” another based on Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard,” and ended with a love poem with traces of Perrault’s telling of “Cinderella.”

I have so much gratitude to all my fellow writers and to the hard-working editors of Room. Taryn Hubbard and Meghan Bell made the night go smoothly and brightened up the evening with their enthusiasm! Even if, or especially because, they kept calling me a geek.

Alright, so, who’s excited for the Vancouver Writers Fest? I’m going to a bunch of events this weekend before I have to head back to work. Maybe we’ll run into each other? Say hi!

Me performing my fairy tale poems for the wonderful audience at Heartwood Café

Me performing my fairy tale poems for the wonderful audience at Heartwood Café

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Photo credits: James Daniell

I was also so pleased that Garth Martens (currently on the shortlist for the Governor General Award for Poetry for Prologue for the Age of Consequence, from which he read at Swoon this past spring) was in town, and he was able to come make it to Heartwood for the Room launch! He’s here from Victoria to catch some of the Writers Fest this weekend. He generously tweeted his excitement before the Room launch last night:

So excited to hear @JuliaDiDa and @ruthedaniell at tonight's @RoomMagazine launch. http://t.co/k6SRurGcSO #yvr pic.twitter.com/WNUBZBT7y0

— Garth Martens (@GarthMartens) October 23, 2014

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Save the Date for November 15 – Swoon Fall 2014!

20 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Announcements & News, Events & Appearances, Reading, Swoon

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I’m so pleased to confirm that I will be hosting the next event for Swoon along with Sierra Skye Gemma, on November 15, 7pm, at Trees Coffee!

Swoon_poster_save_the_date_updatedThe author announcement will be posted in the next week or so, but I can reassure you that we have an absolutely fantastic set of new Swooners for you! I’m so excited for November 15!

And while we’re speaking of exciting things on your calendar… Don’t forget that this Thursday (October 23) I’ll be performing original work at Heartwood Community Cafe at the Room Magazine issue launch, which starts at 7pm. Please RSVP to the event here. I can’t wait to see you there!

Echolocation, Issue 14 Launch

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Canlit, Echolocation, event, launch, Laura Ritland, new poems, performance, publication, reading, Rebecca Hales, Toronto, University of Toronto

Echolocation, a beautiful annual magazine produced by graduate English students at the University of Toronto, just published its fourteenth issue, and I am pleased to announce that within its pretty pages are two new poems by me!

Echolocation, issue 14The launch of issue 14 is happening next week, on Thursday, October 23, at 7:30pm EDT in Toronto. In my absence, I have trusted friend and fellow poet Laura Ritland (recent winner of The Malahat Review‘s Far Horizon Award for Poetry) to perform my poems for me. If you’re in Toronto, then I highly encourage you to head down to No One Writes to the Colonel at 460 College Street to hang out with Laura and take in some of the fine literary offerings from the magazine’s other contributors. Click here to RSVP to the event on Facebook! I know it will be a very fun evening, and I wish that I could be in two places at once!

After the launch on the 23rd, the magazine will become available for ordering online on the Echolocation website. Especially if you’re not in Toronto to buy a copy at the launch, I highly encourage you to order yourself a copy! If you need extra enticing, then I’ll leave you with this: the poetry I’ve written that is featured in the issue includes the appearance of Lacanian literary theory, the Incredible Hulk, and a protoctologist’s office. And as my friend Rebecca Hales (a talented screenwriter and a current resident of the prestigious 2014 Bell Media Prime Time TV Program) said, when I mentioned the poems to her, “Hulk AND a proctologist?!? What more does a girl need in a poem?”

Performing at WORD Vancouver Festival on Sunday, September 28

28 Thursday Aug 2014

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Announcements & News, Events & Appearances, Poetry

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event, literary festival, literary magazines, performance, poetry, ROOM Magazine, Vancouver, WORD Vancouver Festival

Word Vancouver Festival Program Cover

The program for WORD Vancouver Festival is now available online and on ISSUU; you should also be able to find print copies in local coffee shops, libraries, and bookstores. And guess what? I’m in it!

That’s right–this year, I’ll be performing some of my poetry as a featured reader for Room Magazine! I recently announced (in this post) that two of my poems are forthcoming in the “Geek Girls” issue of Room, which is so exciting, and it’s even more exciting to get to participate in WORD. I hope you’ll come and share my excitement: the Room Magazine event will take place at 12:20pm on Sunday, September 28 as part of the festival’s Magazine Words programming and I would absolutely love to see you there. Come on out! There are loads of other fun and fascinating events happening for WORD–browse through the program and you’ll be hard pressed not to find other events that spark your interest, too!

The reading will take place downtown at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. When I have more exact details about where (and if the time changes at all), I’ll update you as quickly as possible!

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Co-hosting Spring 2014 Swoon Reading Series April 4th

04 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Events & Appearances, Swoon

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chocolate, Cocoa Nymph, drinking chocolate, event, fiction, Garth Martens, Jeffrey Ricker, Jennifer Zilm, Joelle Barron, love, Nicole Boyce, Non-fiction/Memoir, poetry, prose, Rachel Sawatzky, sex, Sierra Skye Gemma, Sugar le Fae, Swoon, Taylor Basso, truffles, Vancouver, Vancouver literary event

Swoon_poster_3Spring 2014’s Swoon is here! Come on out, Vancouver, for a really lovely time tonight. My co-host Jeffrey Ricker and I have been working hard to put together a fantastic literary evening of love, sex, and chocolate.  All our readers have tantalizing, sexy, sweet, lovely performances for you, and our fantastically-supportive venue, Cocoa Nymph, is ready to serve up authentic drinking chocolate. (And I’m definitely having one of their truffles, or their seasonal Easter eggs…or both. Oh, okay, probably both.) Cocoa Nymph is located at 3739 W. 10th Avenue in Kitsilano. The evening starts at 7:30pm; I advise you to arrive a little early to get yourself some treats first and find a seat. We will break mid-way through the performances for another opportunity to stock up on chocolate and chat with our authors. I am so proud of the Swoon community, and would be so thrilled to welcome you into it. Join us tonight!

You can check out our talented authors by reading their bios on our Swoon website, where you will also find our mission statement and how to become involved with Swoon–whether or not you want to contribute as a writer and performer!

You can follow us on Twitter at @swoonvancouver

RSVP for tonight’s event on Facebook

Or join our community on Facebook to receive our status updates and talk to other Swooners.

Audience appreciation

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Events & Appearances, Swoon

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audience, audience appreciation, Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, chocolate, event, Francine Cunningham, friends, Jeffrey Ricker, Kayla Czaga, love, National Poetry Month, new work, poetry, prose, Rebecca Hales, sex, Swoon, The Brightest Thing, UBC, UBC Bookstore, Vancouver, writers

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Poster designed by Jeffrey Ricker

Happy National Poetry Month! What kinds of poems are you reading? If you’re in Vancouver and looking for more great poetry experiences, may I humbly suggest that you check out Swoon this Friday? This Friday’s event is going to have great readings of both poetry and prose by some  absolutely fantastic writers. I’m really looking forward to what promises to be a wonderful, literary evening about love, sex, and chocolate!

Last Saturday (March 29) I participated in the celebration of UBC Bookstore’s recent renovations by performing some of my work at a special reading that included, among others, my talented colleagues Rebecca Hales, Francine Cunningham, Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, Kayla Czaga, and Jeffrey Ricker.  I read from my manuscript, The Brightest Thing, and made good on a dare to myself to read some brand new work, too–work that was kindly and enthusiastically received…. While the event’s venue turned out to be a bit chaotic–so many others events happening at once–the audience there was of the highest calibre. Thank you to everyone who came out to listen! I hope to see many of you again this Friday at Cocoa Nymph  (3739 W. 10th Avenue) for this spring’s edition of Swoon!IMG_1690IMG_1680

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Photo credits: James Daniell

Thanks for reading. I hope your National Poetry Month is full of poems–and chocolate (is there a National Chocolate Month yet?)!

 

UBC Bookstore Reading Saturday, March 29

27 Thursday Mar 2014

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book_the_date_mesh_panel_printIf you’re free on Saturday, March 29, come out to the UBC bookstore at the Vancouver campus to hear me read. It’s part of the bookstore’s grand reopening after a big renovation. I’ll be reading from my manuscript, The Brightest Thing, and new work.

I’m reading from 1:20-1:40pm, but the day’s events start at 9:30am and go later, so come earlier or stay later, as it suits you, to also take in the performances by some of my gifted colleagues, including my co-host for the next Swoon event, Jeffrey Ricker!

Swoon: A Reading Series on Love & Desire

18 Tuesday Mar 2014

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chocolate, Cocoa Nymph, event, Jeffrey Ricker, love, readers, reading, sex, Swoon, Vancouver, writers

Poster designed by Jeffrey Ricker

Poster designed by Jeffrey Ricker

EDIT: We’ve now announced the author line-up for the April 4th Swoon. Check it out here.

I am so excited to announce that I’m hosting this spring’s edition of Swoon with my dear friend and fantastic writer Jeffrey Ricker!

We have an amazing line-up of writers who are going to read from their work. If you’re in the Vancouver area and you like love and chocolate, then I am positive you will enjoy the evening we have planned! Save the date for Friday, April 4th, at 7:30pm. We’ll be holding the event at the fantastic local chocolate shop, Cocoa Nymph.

To keep up to date on Swoon’s events, please “like” our community on Facebook at Swoon: A Reading Series on Love & Desire. For more information about what to expect at Swoon, its hosts, writers, and goals, visit Swoon’s official website.

 

Romantic Poetry

05 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by Ruth Daniell in Announcements & News, Events & Appearances, Teaching

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Cowichan Valley, Cowichan Valley Teachers Association, education, event, performance, poetry, reading, Romantic poetry, teaching

CVMTA LogoI’m pleased to be able to tell you that I have been invited to participate in the Cowichan Valley Music Teachers Association‘s biennial history workshop series, History of Music. I will be performing poetry from the Romantic Era as part of the workshop’s Friday “Soirée” on October 18. The poetry performances are designed to complement other performances of piano, violin, harp and song, along with dance, in order to help students develop a deeper understanding of the intertextuality between music and literature within the Romantic Era. For more information about the full workshop line-up, please visit the History of Music Series page on the CVMTA website.

 

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