Author! Author! 2021
September 22 530pm-7pm
Miche Cafe
Miche Cafe
We enjoyed an amazing evening of poetry as we welcomed 2 local authors and poets:
RHONDA GANZ - Winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry 2018 and nominated for the 2018 Victoria Butler Book Prize, and
JAMES SUMMER - 2021 Youth Poet Laureate for the City of Victoria.
RHONDA GANZ - Winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry 2018 and nominated for the 2018 Victoria Butler Book Prize, and
JAMES SUMMER - 2021 Youth Poet Laureate for the City of Victoria.
Rhonda GanzRhonda Ganz’s first collection, Frequent, small loads of laundry (Mother Tongue Publishing) won the Relit Award for Poetry. The book was also a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Victoria Butler Book Prize.
Her poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, Rattle, Room, Harvard Design Magazine, on city buses as part of Poetry in Transit and many anthologies, including Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds, Poems from Planet Earth, Rocksalt, Force Field: 77 Women Poets of BC, Erotic Haiku: Of Skin on Skin and Voicing Suicide. She has been a featured reader at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, Poets Corner, Twisted Poets and Word on the Street in Vancouver, The Portfolio Reading Series and WordStorm in Nanaimo, and at the inaugural Galiano Literary Festival. She reads crime fiction, watches Judge Judy, and needle felts fancy hearts in the Victoria home she shares with a quiet man and a cat on its third life. |
James SummerJames Summer began writing poetry in his junior year of high school when he joined Vic High School’s slam poetry club, and became president of the slam poetry club in his senior year.
In January of this year, he was announced as the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate for the City of Victoria, co-sponsored by the Greater Victoria Public Library (GVPL) and the City of Victoria. He's participated in such showcases as LimeLight, Vic Voices, and Hullabaloo, as well as various open mic events. He hopes to bring his love of this artistic medium to other youth in the region, and help provide a safe space for those who want to express growth, pain and love through the written and spoken word. “Poetry has helped me cope with feelings of loneliness and memories of a bittersweet childhood. As a transgender individual and as Youth Poet Laureate, I hope that I can bring awareness about the topic of being transgender and to have important conversations about stigma and labels.” |
Author! Author! 2016
The Township Community Arts Council is proud to present a new component to the Esquimalt Arts Festival, Author! Author! This inaugural literary program features local aspiring and published authors from Esquimalt as well as established poets and Victoria's very own Poet Laureate. In addition, the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival and the Story Theatre Literary Circus will provide additional entertainment for the whole family. Author! Author! will take place in The English Inn Manor House in the Rosemeade Dining Room.
Yvonne Blomer
Author Author takes place within The English Inn Manor House
11:00 am Elaine Cross, Author
11:30 am Story Theatre Fables, Fools & Fantasy
12:30 pm Sean MacUisdin, Author
1:00 pm Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival,
Shakespeare 400-Celebrating the Bard
1:45 pm Connie Kurtenbach, Author
2:15pm Story Theatre Literary Circus
3:15 pm Wendy Donawa, Poet &
Terry Ann Carter, Poet
3:45pm Yvonne Blomer, Poet Laureate, Victoria
11:00 am Elaine Cross, Author
11:30 am Story Theatre Fables, Fools & Fantasy
12:30 pm Sean MacUisdin, Author
1:00 pm Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival,
Shakespeare 400-Celebrating the Bard
1:45 pm Connie Kurtenbach, Author
2:15pm Story Theatre Literary Circus
3:15 pm Wendy Donawa, Poet &
Terry Ann Carter, Poet
3:45pm Yvonne Blomer, Poet Laureate, Victoria
Elaine Cross
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Sean Pol MacUisdin
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Constance Kurtenbach
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