I spent some time with the ladies over at CBC's Living Montreal to chat about some of my favourite books of the year.
Check it out:
http://www.cbc.ca/livingmontreal/player.page?playerId=livingmontreal&maven_playlistId=0e753fa56e085c85658c402d9605ea1b6f4d351b&maven_referrer=mrss&maven_referralPlaylistId=0e753fa56e085c85658c402d9605ea1b6f4d351b&maven_referralObject=3304444
Thursday, December 18, 2008
PHOTO ALBUM: The 2008 QWF Literary Awards
Welcome to Montreal's most exciting literary event of the year... kjkj
...fans gathering, glasses overflowing...can you feel the excitement?!
No ties? No top hats?!Dimitri Nasrallah, Taras Grescoe & Jaspreet Singh go casual.
Time for a refill.
Time for a refill. Elaine Kalman Naves
Say fromage!
Say fromage! John Aylen, Byron Rempel, Peter McAuslan
Lights, camera, I'm ready to soft-shoe
Lights, camera, I'm ready to soft-shoewith Joel Yanofsky, the host!
Raquel Rivera
Raquel RiveraWinner of the QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Taras Grescoe
Taras GrescoeWinner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
J.R. Carpenter
J.R. CarpenterWinner of the CARTE BLANCHE QUEBEC PRIZE for best submission
Adam Leith Gollner
"This is the manuscript of my autobiographical novel. I was hoping one of the authors could pass it on to their publisher...Heather, Rawi, Taras, Jeffrey?"
Jeffrey Moore, Heather O'Neill, Adam Leith Gollner
Joel Yanofsky, Marianne Ackerman, Sherwin Tjia
Rawi Hage, winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, & Mom
Adam Leith GollnerWinner of the McAuslan First Book Prize
"This is the manuscript of my autobiographical novel. I was hoping one of the authors could pass it on to their publisher...Heather, Rawi, Taras, Jeffrey?"
Jeffrey Moore, Heather O'Neill, Adam Leith Gollner
Joel Yanofsky, Marianne Ackerman, Sherwin Tjia
Rawi Hage, winner of the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, & MomPhotos: Monique Dykstra
Monday, December 15, 2008
Love Ms. Julie -- 2009 Edition!
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SUBMISSION CALL for
2009 literary titles by English-language Quebec authors for inclusion in the 2009 “Love Ms. Julie” Campaign
The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) and the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ), in a continuing effort to promote the work of our authors through the “Love Ms. Julie” campaign, are compiling a list of titles with a publication date in the 2009 calendar year. Please note that self-published titles are not eligible.
From the submissions, an independent committee will select a representative mix of books for possible inclusion in a promotion project, the scope of which will depend on the outcome of funding requests that are still outstanding.
If you are a Quebec author with an English-language book of poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction coming out in the Spring or Fall of 2009 – or the publisher of such a book by a Quebec author – email us the following info:
Author
Title
One-paragraph description of the book
Publication date
Publisher
Publisher contact info. (publicist’s email and telephone)
Please write “2009 Publication” in the subject line and send to:
Lori Schubert
admin@qwf.org
Authors whose submissions are selected for this campaign will be contacted in March, 2009.
DEADLINE
Friday, February 13, 2009
Are you a Quebec author with an English-language book coming out next year?
SUBMISSION CALL for
2009 literary titles by English-language Quebec authors for inclusion in the 2009 “Love Ms. Julie” Campaign
The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) and the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ), in a continuing effort to promote the work of our authors through the “Love Ms. Julie” campaign, are compiling a list of titles with a publication date in the 2009 calendar year. Please note that self-published titles are not eligible.
From the submissions, an independent committee will select a representative mix of books for possible inclusion in a promotion project, the scope of which will depend on the outcome of funding requests that are still outstanding.
If you are a Quebec author with an English-language book of poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction coming out in the Spring or Fall of 2009 – or the publisher of such a book by a Quebec author – email us the following info:
Author
Title
One-paragraph description of the book
Publication date
Publisher
Publisher contact info. (publicist’s email and telephone)
Please write “2009 Publication” in the subject line and send to:
Lori Schubert
admin@qwf.org
Authors whose submissions are selected for this campaign will be contacted in March, 2009.
DEADLINE
Friday, February 13, 2009
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