http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba Manitoba Book Awards Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:12:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en saturday, April 26   at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Featuring the presentation of all the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards and a catered reception. Cocktails at 7:30 p.m. followed by presentation of the awards at 8:30 p.m. Seating is limited.  http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=57 PENNYWISE BOOKS, Brandon Charles and Dale Brawn launching Every Stone a Story: Manitoba’s Buried History, 1900-2000. (Great Plains Publications) http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=56 MCNALLY ROBINSON, GRANT PARK, PRAIRIE INK RESTAURANT Kerry Ryan, launch of The Sleeping Life, a debut coll-ection of poems. (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=55 MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOKSELLERS, GRANT PARK, travel alcove This is the launch of the special issue of «Home Place» which features Winnipeg creative non-fiction writers and their portraits done by Mandy Malazdrewich.  Authors include: Charlene Diehl, Sally Ito, Sarah Klassen, Ying Kong, Jake MacDonald, Maurice Mierau, Deborah Schnitzer, James Scoles, Wayne Tefs, Janine Tschuncky, Margaret Ullrich, Tricia Wasney. ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=54 PENNYWISE BOOKS, Brandon  Writing Plays, Poems and Stories; A Multiple Author Event. Featuring poet Laurie Block, Foreign Graces /  Bendiciones Ajenas (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing), playwrights Dale Lakevold and Darrell Racine, Stretching Hide (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) and Winnipeg crime fiction writer Michael Van Rooy, An Ordinary Decent Criminal (Turnstone Press) http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=53 MANITOBA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Demetra Hajidiacos, author of Acting Alone, will conduct a drama workshop at the Manitoba Children’s Museum. Pre-registration required. (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) Regular admission fees apply. http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=52 MILLENNIUM LIBRARY Russ Gourluck will be reading from his books Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue and A Store Like No Other: Eaton’s of Winnipeg. (Great Plains Publications) http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=51 THE NEW AQUA BOOKS LOCATION 274 GARRY Just the Facts M’am … Mike McIntyre, author  of   To the Grave: Inside a Spectacular RCMP Sting (Great Plains Publications), Alison Preston, author of Sunny Dreams (Signature Editions), and Michael Van Rooy, author of An Ordinary Decent Criminal (Turnstone Press) will be on hand to give you details on the serious business ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=50 PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE LIBRARY John Paskievich presents a slide show of photographs from his book, The North End. (U of M Press) http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=49 PENNYWISE BOOKS, Brandon Reading by Barbara Huck of The Land Where the Sky Begins, text by Barbara Huck, photography by Dennis Fast. (Heartland Associates) http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba/?p=48