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Readings
2009
Poets, Authors, Writers
Storytellers & Playwrights
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Co-MC
Susan L. Reynolds
President, WCDR |
Susan L. Reynolds,
President,
Writers Circle of Durham Region |
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Susan Lynn Reynolds is a writer and an accredited
writing instructor in the Amherst Writers and Artists
method. She has been teaching creative writing for over
10 years. Her 1992 novel Strandia won the CLA’s
national YA Novel of the Year Award, and she won the
Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize three years in a
row for her short stories and poetry. Her area of
specialty is the therapeutic use of journaling and
memoir, and her thesis on that topic received the
Canadian Psychological Association’s Award of Academic
Excellence in 2006. She has been leading writing
workshops for female inmates at Central East
Correctional Centre for five years and received the 2007
June Callwood Award for Outstanding Volunteerism for
that program. She is currently working on her Masters.
www.goforwords.com
www.piquantproductions.ca
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Co-MC
James Dewar
Vice-President, WCDR
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James Dewar
Vice President,
Writers Circle of Durham Region
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James has been organizing and hosting his reading
series, Hot-Sauced Words, in Toronto and elsewhere for
over three years. He is a frequent guest on Nik Beat’s
“Howl” radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM and enjoys
hosting Literary Festivals. His poetry has been
published in several anthologies and literary journals.
His first book of poetry,
The
Garden in the Machine was published
by Hidden Brook Press in March 2007. Through his
publishing company, Piquant Press, he has edited
and published six poetry chapbooks for emerging talents
and is working on two new projects. In addition to
teaching advanced creative writing at Durham College he
also leads a year-long workshop, A Novel Approach, with
Sue Reynolds, helping writers to complete a novel in one
year. He serves as VP of the Writers’ Circle of Durham
Region and works as a freelance writer, editor and
website designer. For more information please check
www.hotsaucedwords.ca and
www.piquantproductions.ca |
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www.oshawalibrary.on.ca
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Rick Ficek
MC for Poetry Contest
Winners
Presenting the Awards & Prizes |
Rick Ficek, was a public librarian for 35
years in Hamilton, Fort Frances, Toronto and for the past 16
years in Oshawa. In Toronto Rick was a branch head of several
Toronto branches and prior to leaving, collection librarian
for the (Toronto) System. Presently, Mgr. Information and
Adult Services responsible for adult programmes, collections
and professional staff training.
Rick is an avid book collector, does some lecturing and
sometimes canoeist. Resident of Oshawa, a member of the Oshawa
Rotary, married with a daughter who just completed her first
year at Queens University in fine arts.
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Stellar Literary Festival
Judge 2009
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Ruth E.
Walker |
Ruth has had her fair share of contests to judge, serving as
both tier judge and final judge in a number of poetry
and fiction contests in
the past. |
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Stellar Literary
Festival - Poetry Contest Judge |
Ruth E. Walker
An internationally published and award-winning writer and
poet. She has twice won the Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry
contest and most recently achieved 3rd place in the
prestigious Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, also
earning her a nomination for
a National Magazine Award.
Ruth has served since 2007 as an artist in residence to
the Durham District School Board with Durham Alternative
Secondary School. Published in journals and anthologies
such as Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, River King
Poetry Supplement (US),
Cadenza (UK), Rain Dog (UK), Ruth was a founding editor
for the literary journal LICHEN Arts & Letters Preview.
Ruth also serves on the board of directors of the The
Writers' Circle
of Durham Region and Driftwood Theatre Group, teaches
creative writing in workshops and community programs, is a
partner in Writescape Writing Retreats and maintains a
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FEATURED PLAYWRIGHT
Penn Kemp,
Playwright & Poet |
London ON playwright and performance poet Penn Kemp appears in
arts festivals world-wide, as well as reading and giving
workshops in local venues for four decades. Penn received her
M.Ed. from OISE, Toronto. Since Coach House published her
first book (1972), Penn has been expanding text and aural
boundaries.
Her plays have been read
and produced in Canada, Hollywood, Brazil and India. Among
her publications are twenty-five books (poetry and drama), ten
CDs (Sound Opera) and six award-winning videopoems.
The League of Poets
proclaimed her a foremother of Canadian poetry. Western has
asked her to be writer-in-residence in London next year.
http://mytown.ca/pennletters/
Her Newsletter
Penn's Gain Parlimentary Recognition
Sponsored by Playwrights Guild of Canada and
the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Mary-Jane Martin
Performing
Mary-Jane will be
reading from this book
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Featured Songwriter /
Author
Mary Jane Martin
Author/Illustrator/Cartoonist/ Songwriter |
A born storyteller, writer and illustrator, it
was only a matter of time that it all came together to create
her children’s stories. Formerly a teacher, Mary-Jane can be
found sharing her stories in communities, schools and festivals
throughout the country. Her stories often include song and even
the occasional dance!
Mary-Jane is a published Author of five picture books in her
repertoire.
Hot off the press is her Junior Fiction Novel with a
curriculum-based novel study guide, certainly to interest
educators!
Mary-Jane will read from her picture book "Angel On A
Rooftop," inspired by a cancer story and will sing the song that
goes along with it.
She enjoys all the arts and loves to share a full repertoire at
her presentations.
Information for teachers, librarians and anyone working with
children will find it interesting.
http://www.lionandmousetales.com/
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Sang for:
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Toronto Mayor David Miller
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Featured Songwriter / Poet
Honey Novick
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Honey is a singer/songwriter/voice teacher/poet who lives in
Toronto. For the Luminato Festival, Summer of Love Project
Gallery of memories, she was named "Poet Laureate", for creating
the "Yorkville Memories" poem, an honour she still finds both
humbling and dizzying.
Wrote music for:
Anthems for Canada-Cuba Friendship Day (6 years in a
row)
for municipal and federal Canadian governments
Composer for TVO campaign song "Way to Go TVO"
Awards: CAPAC (Composers, Authors, Publishers Association
of Canada)
7 years in a row.
Yamaha Classical Music Competition (vocals), Tokyo, Japan
Ben and Hilda Katz Foundation: Ossington Institute;
Opportune Productions Nominee:
Nominated for Peace Ambassador
Women Who Make A Difference
Women of Distinction |
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Michael Robert Dyet
Author |
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Featured Author
Michael Robert Dyet
Michael’s debut, internet-enhanced novel
Until the Deep Water
Stills breaks new ground by
combining a traditional print
novel with an online companion featuring text,
photography and
audio recordings.
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Michael Robert Dyet holds an Honours B.A.,
summa cum laude, in Creative Writing from York University.
Michael is an active member of the Canadian Authors
Association and the Writers and Editors Network (WEN). He
participated in the first WEN Authors Showcase at the
Gladstone Hotel in Toronto in February 2009.
Website
Novel Online Companion
http://mdyetmetaphor.com
http://mdyetmetaphor.com/blog
Michael's Blog
Metaphors of Life aka Things That Make Me Go Hmmm
http://mdyetmetaphor.com/blog2
Synopsis
http://www.mdyetmetaphor.com/TheNovel/index.html
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Canada Cuba Literary Alliance
Anyone that joins the CCLA at the 2nd
Stellar Literary Festival may be invited to read with the group.
Please let the person know as you sign-up. Thanks!
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Photo take at the
Canadian Embassy
in Havana Cuba
Richard Grove
President
Canada Cuba Literary Alliance
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Richard Grove,
President
Coordinate & Lead CCLA Members Group
Reading
The goal of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance
is to advance literary solidarity between Canada and
Cuba through the creative expression of poetry, prose
and photography.
Here's a great opportunity to become involved in a
literary adventure!
by being a part of the Canada Cuba
Literary Alliance.
Membership offers you many
opportunities to be published and also receive
The
Ambassador - our literary journal and The Envoy - our
newsletter.
Check out the members trip to Cuba and what you have
missed :-)
Trip to Cuba 1
Trip to Cuba 2
Trip to Cuba 3
Richard Grove is an editor and publisher and runs a
growing publishing company,
Hidden Brook Press from
which he publishes poetry contest,
anthologies and books
of every genre for authors around the world.
CCLA
Member Readers - to be listed
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Emerging Playwright / Director / Actor |
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Michael
Khashmanian
He will demonstrate a 'raw' play and demonstrate to
the audience how it all comes together.
Sorry, Reality TV, ONLY in Durham Region. :-) |
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Emily Sams, a young actor in the play,
will be reading a couple of poems just before The St. Mark's
Players with Michael Khashmanian begins.
Emily Sams has always had a love of writing and poetry and
has entered many writing contests at her school and over the
past summer has written a full length screen play and other
poems. Her dream is to be a tv and movie writer because of her
love for writing. Emily is currently working on a new play
called "Paths of Life" and hopes to be finished by the end of
the summer. She usually writes about her school, friends and
her emotions. Her friends have always been a big inspiration
for her work.
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Michael Khashmanian
Playwright & Director / Actor
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Michael Khashmanian rekindled his love of writing over the
past years completing a few short stories and poems and
several songs. With his current focus on theatre he has
written
five plays. He is currently acting in “The Backroom Backstab”
with the Backwoods Players which runs July 11,12, 18 & 19,
2009 at The Pickering Museum Village.
Michael has
co-written “The Piper – A Christmas Musical” with William
Treadgold, which you can see at St. Mark’s United Church in
Whitby, Dec. 3-6, 2009.
We are excited that the performance
will be scenes from that play performed by The St. Mark’s
players at the Stellar Literary Festival.. |
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Marcie Snyder
Gardener, Blogger
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A
gardener for years, Marcie has learned the value of making and
using compost as well as using natural methods to control
insects and fungi. Her experiences have proven that when she
uses compost to renew her soil and put nutrients back into it,
her vegetables are so much more healthy looking and delicious.
Her goal is to help others grow lush and healthy
plants and vegetables by providing gardening information via
four different blogs, each one treating a different aspect of
gardening. Her latest FREE ebook, The Compete Guide to Organic
Vegetable Gardening, contains a plethora of tips on where,
how, and why to grow vegetables organically and can be
downloaded at
http://organicvegetablegardeningguide.com/blog
Come and meet Marcie at the Stellar Literary
Festival.
She'd be happy to answer your questions!
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Marcie Snyder
Author
Complete Guide to
Organic Vegetable
Gardening
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Stellar Literary Festival Videographer
Chester Stocki
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Video-Pro-Motion
Featured on
Hollywood.com
The videographer for the Stellar Literary Festival
Chester Stocki, Co-founder &
Vice President of FAMEd |
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Chester Stocki
being interviewed on Rogers TV
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Chester is on record as
being the FIRST
Canadian independent film produced
"The Proud Rider"
Chester Stocki: Director / 1971 / Released / CFP
Distribution
Chester Stocki: Screenplay / 1971 / Released / CFP
Distribution
Chester creates real estates commercials of residential
homes & commercial buildings for sale.
He also produces short movies.
Chester is very active promoting the film industry
and the music community in the Durham Region / GTA.
www.famed.ca
www.Video-Pro-Motion.com
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