Manitoba Book Awards

The 20th Annual Manitoba Book Awards Gala

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:14:38 +0000

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.

7:00 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:12:53 +0000

PENNYWISE BOOKS, Brandon

Charles and Dale Brawn launching
Every Stone a Story: Manitoba’s Buried History, 1900-2000. (Great Plains Publications)

8:00 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:40:29 +0000

MCNALLY ROBINSON,
GRANT PARK, PRAIRIE INK RESTAURANT

Kerry Ryan, launch of The Sleeping Life, a debut
coll-ection of poems. (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)

7:30 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:12 +0000

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. (Prairie Fire Press)

7:00 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:25:21 +0000

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)

1:30 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:21:52 +0000

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.

12:00 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:20:25 +0000

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)

7:00 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:02:46 +0000

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 of researching for accuracy. Mystery, Crime Fiction or True Crime, the story is in the details.

6:30 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:01:12 +0000

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE LIBRARY

John Paskievich presents a slide show of photographs from his book, The North End. (U of M Press)

6:30 p.m.

karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:07 +0000

PENNYWISE BOOKS, Brandon

Reading by Barbara Huck of The Land Where
the Sky Begins, text by Barbara Huck, photography
by Dennis Fast. (Heartland Associates)