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ReLit Award
The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey. Subtitled'' Ideas, Not Money'' the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature."ReLit award winners named". ''Ottawa Citizen'', July 27, 2008. The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards. There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar, but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet. The award went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Strube
Cordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, ''Mortal'', she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, ''Alex & Zee'', in 1994. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her third novel, ''Teaching Pigs to Sing'', was a nominee for the English-language fiction award in the 1996 Governor General's Awards. Her novel ''Lemon'' was named to the longlist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. In 2016, she won the City of Toronto Book Award for ''On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenny Bruce Is Dead
''Lenny Bruce is Dead'' is the first book by author and radio presenter Jonathan Goldstein. The story follows a lead character, Josh, through various events in his life, including a death in the family and his exploration of sexuality. The novel includes multiple themes, such as love, faith, a dysfunctional family, and wavering faith. Its title is a direct quote of the first line of the song "Lenny Bruce" by Bob Dylan (from his 1981 album Shot of Love ''Shot of Love'' is the 21st studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 12, 1981, by Columbia Records. It is considered to be Dylan's last of a trilogy of Christian albums. Arrangements are rooted more in rock, ...). References {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Lenny Bruce Is Dead'' 2001 Canadian novels Novels about dysfunctional families Cultural depictions of Lenny Bruce 2001 debut novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Goldstein (author)
Jonathan Goldstein (born August 22, 1969) is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. Goldstein has worked on radio programs and podcasts such as ''Heavyweight'', ''This American Life,'' and ''WireTap''. Goldstein's work has been academically examined as representative of "the positioning of Jews and Canadians as potentially overlooked minorities in the late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States". Early life Goldstein was born to Buzz and Dina Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, where he spent the first four years of his life before the family moved to Montreal, Quebec, his mother's hometown. The family settled in the suburb of Laval. Goldstein attended McGill University and later completed a master's program in creative writing at Concordia University. Career After graduation, Goldstein supported himself by working in the telemarketing industry for ten years while continuing to write and attend readings. He talked about this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Robinson (poet)
Matt Robinson (born 1974) is a Canadian poet born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His first collection, ''A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking'' (2000), was published by Toronto's Insomniac Press, and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. Subsequent collections, published by Toronto's ECW Press, include ''how we play at it: a list'' (2002), ''no cage contains a stare that well'' (2005), and ''Against the Hard Angle'' (2010). In addition to his full-length collections, he has also published five chapbooks: ''tracery & interplay'' (Frog Hollow Press, 2004), ''Against the Hard Angle'' (Greenboathouse Press, 2009), ''a fist made and then un-made'' (Gaspereau Press, 2013), which was short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, ''The Telephone Game (''Baseline Press, 2017), and ''Against'' (Gaspereau Press, 2018). Robinson's, ''Some Night's It's Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work'', was published by Kentville, NS's awarding-winning Gaspereau Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reibetanz
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeena Karasick
Adeena Karasick (born June 1, 1965) is a Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist. Born in Winnipeg of Russian Jewish heritage, she has authored several books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as a series of parodic videopoems, such as the ironic "I Got a Crush on Osama" that was featured on Fox News and screened at film festivals, ''Ceci n'est pas un Téléphone or Hooked on Telephonics: A Pata-philophonemic Investigation of the Telephone'' created for The Media Ecology Association, "Lingual Ladies" a post-modern parody of Beyoncé's " Single Ladies", and "This is Your Final Nitrous" a poetic response to the Burning Man Festival., ''White Abbot,'' a parodic videopoem Karasick created during the writing of Salome dedicated to the impossible anguish of forbidden love, and ''Medium in a Messy Age: Communication in the Era of Technology'' created for the 71st Annual New York State Communication Association Conference and the Institute of General Semantics, 2013. Her eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Gillis
Susan Gillis is a Canadian poet and editor. Her collections of poetry include ''Swimming Among the Ruins'', shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award; ''Volta'', winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry; ''The Rapids'', a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and ''Yellow Crane'', a Jury Selection in the Grand prix du livre de Montreal and a finalist for the ASLE Creative Writing Book Award. ''Arc Poetry Magazine'' has called Gillis "a formidable poet." In her review of ''Yellow Crane'', Laura Ritland writes that "Gillis's poetry stands between the making of meaning (its "construction") and the unravelling or uncertainty of stable meaning (its "debris")." Gillis is a founding member of the collaborative renku poetry collective Yoko's Dogs, with poets Jan Conn, Mary di Michele and Jane Munro. As host/curator of Concrete & River, she has interviewed and published the work of poets Gjertrud Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Cochrane
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Thornhill
Jan Thornhill (born 1955 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of educational books on science and nature for children. She was the 2015 winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, a lifetime achievement award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada, and won the Norma Fleck Award in 2007 for her book ''I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids’ Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death''. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Thornhill has illustrated many but not all of her own works. She won UNICEF's Ezra Jack Yeats International Award for illustration in 1990 for ''The Wildlife 123'', and has been a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration at the 1988 Governor General's Awards for ''The Wildlife ABC'', the 1989 Governor General's Awards for ''The Wildlife 123'' and the 2017 Governor General's Awards for ''The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk''. She has also published the adult short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon (born 1971) is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. She has published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and two adult historical novels, ''The Golden Mean'' and its sequel, ''The Sweet Girl''. Life and work Lyon was born in Brampton, Ontario, north-west of Toronto, but moved to Coquitlam, British Columbia, when she was a year old. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. In addition, she attended the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law for one year. Lyon published her first book, ''Oxygen'', a collection of stories, in 2000. ''The Best Thing for You'', a collection of three novellas, followed in 2004 and was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her first novel, ''The Golden Mean'', which imagines the relationship between Alexander the Great and his teacher, Aristotle, was published in 2009. It held the distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Kerr (writer)
Don Kerr is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the drummer, lead singer and front man of Toronto band, Communism. He plays in Ron Sexsmith's band,"Don Kerr / Ron Sexsmith Destination Unknown" ''AllMusic'' review by Mark Deming and sometimes with The Kelele Brothers and . Early life Kerr studied guitar as a child; he experimented with a number of instruments as a teenager, and later studied drumming with Jim Blackley.Career Kerr was a member of |