Do you also want Ottawa to have a poet laureate? The City of Ottawa budget was tabled yesterday, and it highlights “an additional $500,000 investment in the Arts, Heritage and Culture Plan”. That plan proposes $25,000 in 2014 for “a renewed municipal poet laureate program that selects a poet whose work displays excellence to serve […]
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Support Independent Lit Radio? Win Books
Oct 25th starts the funding drive at CKCU. You can donate any amount, and specify Literary Landscape under Show to Support. The Literary Landscape team is going to give more book for your buck. The highest donations for Literary Landscapes will win a prize package of books. So far, thanks to generosity of these publishers, […]
Ottawa Small Press Fair, Fall 2013
Chris McPherson greets as Mary Kritz laughs. There’s always loads to explore from poetry to punk, non-fiction to art pieces, handcrafted to materials, glossy to photocopy, kids books to magazines. Liana Voia did 2-3 minute interviews with various people with booths at the fair. Here is the interview with McPherson who does poetry and fiction, […]
Tune in
Literary Landscape this evening at 6:30 on CKCU fm online or off the air talks with the Spencer Gordon and John Buschek about Apt 9, Buschek Books and the Ottawa small press fair. A podcast version should be online within the hour after air time.
Fw: Lampman Reading
Finalists for the 2013 Archibald Lampman Award will be reading from their work at Raw Sugar Cafe at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 17. The annual award, named after Archibald Lampman (1861 1899), one of Canadas finest nineteenth-century poets and an Ottawa resident for much of his life, honours the outstanding book of poetry by […]