Mark your calendars, Vancouver folks — I'll be doing a reading in mid-September at UBC downtown. I can't say for sure, but I suspect the event might mark the public debut of part of the next book. Or a new short story. Hmm… so many possibilities…
Press release from UBC Robson Square with all the details:
The Robson Reading Series presentsJacqueline Turner & Robert Wiersema
Thursday, September 18, 7 pm
UBC Robson Square Bookstore/Library, 800 Robson Street
Free admission
Jacqueline Turner has published three books of poetry with ECW Press: Into the Fold (2000), Careful (2003), and Seven into Even (2006). She co-edits a literary webzine called The News, writes poetry reviews for The Georgia Straight, and is on the board of directors of Artspeak. She recently edited a section of Vancouver writing in the Seattle literary journal Golden Handcuffs Review. She teaches at SFU and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In 2005, she was Queensland's inaugural poet-in-residence, based at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane, Australia and in 2006 she was a resident poet in Tasmania.
Robert J. Wiersema is a writer and journalist who contributes regularly to the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and numerous other publications. He has been a bookseller for almost twenty years, for the last ten at Bolen Books in Victoria, where he is charged with organizing one of the most highly regarded author event series in the country. His debut novel Before I Wake (Random House) was a national bestseller, and has been published in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Greece and numerous other countries. He is currently working on a new novel and a collection of short fiction.
The Robson Reading Series is an ongoing multi-genre series that features some of the finest writers from Canada and abroad. Events are organized in collaboration between the UBC Library and the UBC Bookstore at Robson Square. For a complete list of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca/
The Robson Reading Series acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the UBC Bookstore at Robson Square, and the UBC Library at Robson Square.
