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		<title>Public Invited to Shift III: Innovative Literary Event</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Donna&#8211;Could you please post this literary message/invite on your pages? If you&#8217;re on this coast on July 20th please come to Shift III. Your help, Donna. is much appreciated. Thanks again. Jody
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Victoria School of Writing
Jody Collins
250-595-3000
coord@victoriaschoolofwrit
ing.org
Public Invited to Shift III: Innovative Literary Event
The Twenty-First-Century Writer: Inscribing Light in the Dark? is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PEACE Poster Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spice Pop (Lebanon) wrote
at 10:06pm on June 30th, 2008
If we can&#8217;t make Peace, @ least Celebrate It!
To all designers from the Middle East, Draw a Peace message &#38; get a chance to grab ace cash prizes &#38; a massive exposure throughout the media.
ArabAd, the Communication publication of the Middle East, is calling all designers from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Symposium on the Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Donna:
Would you mind letting your group members know about The Symposium on the Book taking place in Vancouver on July 12th. This is our seventh year and for the first time we are looking at genre fiction.
Since your group is all about anything to do with books, this promotion would be appropriate I think.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hometown CD release concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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The hometown CD release concert for 18 year old folk cellist, vocalist and banjo player, Emma Beaton and mid-island band Celtic Chaos, of their latest CD, Pretty Fair Maid, will take place:
on June 27th
at the intimate Village Theatre on 2nd Avenue, in Qualicum Beach.
8pm showtime. Doors 7:30pm.
Tickets $15 and available through band members or at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Language of Poetry:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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One-day Poetry Courses coming this Saturday June 14
The Language of Poetry:
By developing a heightened awareness of language-use students will write poems rich in linguistic verve. In-class assignments will be varied and consist of exercises using metaphor, rhythm, rhyme and meter to write active and imaginative poetry. We will also look at tightening language and taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Day Retreat with Kim Rosen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Telling the Truth:
Poetry as Passion, Prayer and Practice
5 Day Retreat with Kim Rosen
September 26 - October 1, 2008
and Poetry Concert by Kim Rosen and Jami Sieber, Cellist
September 26, 2008
Sleeping Dog Farm, Victoria, B.C.
Poetry is the language of the soul. It comes from beyond the mind, affecting your body, your feelings and the very biochemistry of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write on Bowen!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Subject: Register Early for Write on Bowen!
 
Calling all writers and readers! 
Mark your calendars for July 11 to 13 and then sign up for a workshop at the Write on Bowen! Festival of Readers and Writers. Write on Bowen! celebrates writers and readers on beautiful Bowen Island, BC, and beyond! 
Sponsored by the Bowen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing SeaWords Creative Writing Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Announcing SeaWords Creative Writing Workshop‏
Seawords Workshop (seawords@upei.ca)
 
The University of Prince Edward Island and the Lucy Maud Montgomery
Institute proudly present the first annual SeaWords Creative Writing
Workshop, from August 18-22, at Brackley   Beach, PEI. The 2008 event is
themed &#8220;Canada&#8217;s Women Writers&#8221; in celebration of L.M. Montgomery, PEI’s
most famous author, and will feature some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Symposium on the Book</title>
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Would you mind letting your group members know about The Symposium on the Book taking place in Vancouver on July 12th. This is our seventh year and for the first time we are looking at genre fiction.
Since your group is all about anything to do with books, this promotion would be appropriate I think.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Applications Banff Wired Writing Studio 2008-09</title>
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Call for Applications: 




Wired Writing Studio 2008-09
Fred Stenson, director 
On-site residency: October 6 – 18,   2008
Online residency: November   1, 2008 – March 31, 2009
Application deadline: June   16, 2008

Faculty:
Fiction and other narrative prose: Curtis   Gillespie, Lawrence Hill, Alissa York
Poetry: Barry Dempster,   Elizabeth Philips
The program is a [...]]]></description>
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