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Hello folks,
Hope your 2020 is starting off well. I feel hopeful on the writing front, and the health front.I have says without spoons but some days when I feel like a functional human again.
I have a finished manuscript sent out to a publisher. I have 2 chapbooks and a book coming out this year. I have the start on another book of poems. After years of gathering kindling, there might be some warming fires, finally. Lots is happening. Let me share some of that...
Writing after a concussion.
An article up I was solicited to pitch articles to the Quebec Writers Federation. One is now up on the journey through concussion and what impact the concussion had on my writing.
My collected best of 20 years of my haiku, senryu and tanka is generously being published by Éditions des petits nuages in time for the Haiku Canada Conference in May. It is a chapbook that has long been a goal to make. You can get copies there are from me. I will probably have copies at the Ottawa small press fair in June.
Also coming soon is the cover reveal for the Radiant Press collection this fall, footlights. They have been a dream to work with. I so look forward to sharing these poems with you.
Various good things are happening soon. I have a reading March 8th for an International Women's Day Event at the Shea Hall in the Wakefield Community Centre. There are also musical acts. Tickets are $15 and you can buy food by the item made by men of the community or bid in the silent auction for cakes made by local men. It is a fundraiser for the Wakefield Grannies who do various events to bring money to AIDS orphans in Alexandra Township, South Africa.
I have another reading March 12th in Ottawa, (details to come).
In reading news, there is a last hour save for the Tree Reading Series. 3 new souls have stepped forward to see it into its 40th year.
On top of that, after years of reading series ending in Ottawa, a new one is due to start in May, headed by Nina Jane and
Ellen Chang-Richardson, Riverbed Reading Series.
I am a reader, so naturally continue reading, and recording what in what my mom refers to as my "reading contest" of 95books. Biggest news is that we discovered he Moomins. (50 years or so after the party started). As usual I'm picking away at a dozen books at a time. Today Will Be Different by Marie Semple came via a Little Free Library and was a light but chewy delight on a low energy day.
Until next time, keep reading and keep writing,
Pearl