Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America: Shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 2011. The winner will be announced at the B.C. Book Prize Gala at the Kay Meek Centre, West Vancouver, 7 p.m.

I will be participating in the B.C. Book Prizes Okanagan tour from April 15 to 20, 2011, together with nominees George Bowering and Julie Flett. We’ll be giving readings and talks.

The schedule:

Friday April 15, 3:00 p.m: Kamloops Public Library

Saturday April 16, 2:00 p.m: Okanagan Regional Library, Salmon Arm Branch

Sunday April 17, 2:00 p.m: Mosaic Books, Kelowna

Monday April 18, 7 p.m: Gallery Vertigo, Vernon

Tuesday April 19, 7 p.m: Hooked on Books, Penticton

Wednesday April 20, 7 p.m: Okanagan Regional Library, Oliver Branch

       

Selected Recent Appearances and Events

March 2011: Reading and talk at the Robson Square Reading Series at the UBC Bookstore, Robson Square, Vancouver.

    

Vancouver International Writers’ Festival, Friday October 22nd, 1:00 - 2:30: A moderated discussion with other writers dealing with road trips and “travelling for the purpose of writing”.

October 2010: Talk and Signing at Galiano Island Books, Galiano Island (logically enough), B.C.

September 2010: Talk and reading at The Word on the Street National Book and Magazine Festival,Vancouver.

Recent publication: An excerpt from Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America in Canadian Geographic magazine’s July - August issue. This excerpt describes the strange and jangly situation in the Quebec-Vermont border town of Stanstead-Derby Line where the border cuts through town, and even through the reading room of the public library.

Interview with Joseph Planta on www.thecommentary.ca.

June 23, 2010: Book Launch and Reading for Borderlands on my home island of Salt Spring - sponsored jointly by Artspring and Salt Spring Books. This was the book’s official launch shindig.

Interview on Salt Spring Radio’s Word on the Rock (CFSI 107.9 FM)

Talk and slide presentation on The Way of a Ship at the Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre at Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island.

A talk on the sea and sailing, and a reading from The Way of a Ship, at “The Night of the Living Sailors” at the Salt Spring Island Sailing Club.

Talks to the Salt Spring Island Eggheads society on The Bloody Red hand and the forthcoming Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

Talk and slide presentation to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club on Godforsaken Sea

Talk to the Salt Spring Island chapter of Probus on the forthcoming Borderlands

Co-conducted a 2009 four-day workshop entitled “The Way of a Story: Crafting Fiction and Creative Non-fiction,” with the novelist Kathy Page

Juried Writers’ Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, 2008-09

Juried 2008 British Columbia Arts Council Creative Writing Awards

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