The Relit shortlist is out. Final results and ceremony coming in October to one novelist, one short-story writer and one poet.

Blink Gallery starting on Thursday will the place to be if you want to check out the Ottawa Complaints Choir that will sing, adding unity to the little and big bothers of life, this fall.

A new chapbook of my poems coming out with Corrupt Press, September 2011. Lovely design and wonderful fluid process of communication from submission thru design and done.

Celebration of Words and Music: Remembering John Lavery (Dec 31, 2011 – May 8, 2011)

when: Saturday, September 17 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm
where: Foyer – Maison de la Culture de Gatineau, 855 La Gappe Boulevard
Gatineau, QC
Family & friends will gather to celebrate words and music in remembrance of John Lavery, father, husband, brother, friend, writer and musician.
A small reception will follow at the family residence. John’s CD Dignity will be released during the ceremony and copies of his books will also be available. If you cannot attend and would like a copy of the CD, please contact us.
Transportation to the venue will be gratefully provided for those who may need it (contact us for more info)
~ Claire Charles-Éric Madeleine Catherine
More information here.

On Tuesday, Tree Seed Workshops will have the 4th part of the series led by L.M. Rochefort, this one on how to do the travel poem, using a poem from Noble Gas, Penny Black as the exemplar. The series is now set to run out to March with plans taking shape to bring it to the end of the 3rd season.
To end August, also Tuesday Christine, Sandra, Amanda and I will be the feature readers at Tree.
Then I’ll off to the lalaland of Gay Paris.