Federation News

WFNB's WordSpring and AGM Change of date! 
 
In a previous email sent out back at the begining of March WFNB was planning on holding the WordSpring/AGM event in May, please note the date change. WFNB is now holding this event over the weekend of June 6, 7 and 8. We will have a great couple of days for you so mark your calendars for June 6th, 7th and 8th to be in Fredericton for our annual spring gathering. It will be a great weekend to be a writer. This year we are going to be at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Downtown Fredericton. The program is being developed now and we will keep you informed as the events fall into place. Stay tuned for more information! 

The Frye Festival is Around the Corner

The Frye Festival begins this weekend and has a brilliant line up. If you are in the Moncton area, you HAVE to make a stop at one of the many events happening at this world class event. Below are the events that WFNB is fortunate to partner with Frye Festival with the following events.  
 
April 23rd
7 pm / 19 h  
PRELUDE: EMERGING NB WRITERS /
PR�LUDE : AUTEURS DU N.-B. EN �MERGENCE 
Rita Auffrey, Monica Bolduc, Emily Bosse, Danny Jacobs,
Valery Robichaud, Jane Simpson  
Tide & Boar | 5 $ 
 
April 25th
1:30 pm / 13 h 30  
BOOK MARKETING STRATEGIES(E)
Three-hour professional development workshop 
Adria Iwasutiak 
Atlantic Lottery's Discovery Centre (922 Main St.,  (Moncton)
 20 $
 
April 27th
 8 pm / 20 h 
FRYE JAM 
Gerard Beirne, Rose Eliceiry, Mathew Henderson, MC June,
Merilyn Simonds 
Special guests / Invit�s sp�ciaux : Mo Kenney,  
C�dric Vieno, Les Pa�ens & MKW 
Empress | 15 $
 
For the complete Frye Festival Program please check out:
In This Issue
Fog Lit needs you!

Do you like to read or write? Do you like to organize or socialize? Are you looking to volunteer in a fun and interesting environment? Join the Fog Lit organizing team today!
We are looking for volunteers to help with our event planning for Fog Lit 2014 - October 1st-5th. We are setting up committees for each event.
The event planning committees this year include;
Opening Ceremonies
Words and Wine
Authors, Ale and Acoustics
Novel Tea
Haunted Saint John
Book Hop
Closing Ceremonies

We are also seeking help in the following areas;
Sponsorship
Marketing and Promotion/Social Media
Web Design
Contests
Fog Lit Journal

If you have skills in any of these areas please sign up to volunteer at the link below.
We expect the volunteer commitment to be approximately 4-5 meetings leading up to the Festival, and time during final preparation of the event as well as during the event itself.
Fog Lit is also seeking a volunteer to be our volunteer coordinator. If you have great organizational, scheduling and people skills, we need you! Go to the link below.
And if you just want to volunteer to work at the Festival in October you can sign up below as well.
For more info go to www.foglit.com . If you have any questions about the events or committees, please contact us at foglitfestival@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
The Fog Lit Team
April is National Poetry Month

Poetry Readings & Events Across Canada During April
Please visit the Readings & Events page on our website for a full listing of the 50+ National Poetry Month events taking place across Canada. Click Here
Employment Opportunity for Members
 
The Media Co-op is hiring a Publisher!

The Media Co-op is looking for anenergetic, independent person to join our editorial collective as a publisher. You will work with the rest of the editorial collective, spread out across the country, to create the best in radical, independent media for the Media Co-op network, and our flagship magazine, The Dominion.

In your role as publisher, you will oversee the administration and overall direction of the co-op, serve as financial co-ordinator (working closely with our bookkeeper) and carry out various design and editorial tasks. You will work with our membership co-ordinator on fundraising activities, including grant writing

Skills required:
-Highly organized and able to meet ongoing deadlines
-Bilingual (English/French)
-Strong knowledge of desktop publishing software, including InDesign and Photoshop
-Knowledge of Open Office, MS Office and Google Docs
-Self-motivated and able to work independently with a team spread across the country
-Strong knowledge of web-publishing and social media; experience with Drupal a plus
-Strong editing and writing skills, preferably in the field of journalism, are an asset but not required

Experience required
-Experience in social justice and community-based movements
-Experience working with budgets, financial forecasting and non-profit administration
-Experience in journalism or a journalism-related field (asset but not required)

Salary: 10hrs/week at $11.42/hour.

This is a virtual position. You must have access to your own computer and reliable internet connection. Preference is for someone based in Montreal, but we are willing to consider strong candidates in other locations

To apply, please submit a cover letter (no more than 400 words) and CV toinfo@mediacoop.ca with PUBLISHER in the subject line by 6pm EST on Friday, April 18th.Interviews will take place over the following week, with a projected starting date in the first week of May. Paid training will begin the week of April 28th.

The Media Co-op has an employment equity policy in effect. People from marginalized communities, including women, Indigenous people, visible minorities, people with disabilities, Deaf people, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, two-spirited people, transgendered and transsexual people, and working class people are especially encouraged to apply. Please indicate in your cover letter if you would like to be considered for employment equity.
Creative Writing Weekend 
with Douglas Arthur Brown and E. Alex Pierce
 
Dates: Friday, May 2nd - Sunday May 4th 
Times: Friday: 7:30 - 9:00 pm, Saturday: 9:30 - 4:30, Sunday: 9:30 - 4:00 
Location: May 2nd Reading & Reception, Cafe Aberdeen, 140 Botsford, Moncton 
May 3rd & 4th workshops, La Teraz Gallery, 154 Church, Moncton 
Fee: $225 
Maximum Participants: 16 
Deposit: $100 Latest April 11th, 2014 
To register contact: Alex_Pierce@cbu.ca.
 
The weekend starts on Friday evening at Cafe Aberdeen with a meet and greet reception and readings by instructors Douglas Arthur Brown and E. Alex Pierce. During the weekend participants will explore the methodology involved when readers read a book, self-editing, and create an Aubade - drawing on one's relationship to landscape and its place in memory, a popular form of writing found in many cultures and will concentrate on the balance of lyric and narrative in each individual writer's voice. Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of six books. His latest novel Seeds was released in November of 2013. The Globe and Mail called his novel, Quintet, a masterfully written book. It was the recipient of the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Prize, and short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award. E. Alex Pierce is the author of Vox Humana, published by Brick Books (2011). Her poem, "Medway River, Carousel," won the Readers' Choice Award in the Arc Poem of the Year Contest, 2013. Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry (Cormorant), and, in 2013, Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s (Guernica).
Submission Opportunities for Members

Here are some submission opportunities for our members:
 
Plenitude Magazine, Issue 5
 
Deadline for Issue 5 is JUNE 30. 
 
About Plenitude Magazine
Plenitude Magazine aims to promote the growth and development of LGBTTQI literature through a biannual digital + print publication of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by both emerging and established LGBTTQI writers.
 
How to Submit
 
All unsolicited submissions of fiction, nonfiction and poetry should be unpublished, original works. There are no restrictions in this regard for film.
 
We accept simultaneous submissions; in the event that your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let us know right away.
 
We pay honorariums of $20 per poem or flash fiction, $70 per prose piece, and $50 per review/interview/article for web.
 

  

  

The Malahat Review, Canada's premier literary magazine, invites emerging poets from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter the 2014 Far Horizons Award for Poetry Contest. Eligible poets have yet to publish their poetry in book form (a book of poetry is defined to have a length of 48 pages or more). One prize of $1,000 (Canadian Funds) is awarded to a single winner.
 
Entry fee (up to three poems, 60 lines each) is $25 for Canadian entries, $30 for U.S. entries, and $35 elsewhere. Additional entries (up to three poems per entry) are $15.

The deadline for this contest is May 1, 2014 (postmark date). Entries can be sent by regular mail or email.

Full contest guidelines can be found online:  
 
Looking for inspiration? See the contest guidelines page for an interview with this year's judge, Julie Bruck, as well as interviews with past Far Horizons Poetry Award winners.

For inquiries, including eligibility, please email malahat@uvic.ca (inquiries only; no submissions please).
 
 
 
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2014: Call for Entries

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, an annual celebration of outstanding international poetry and short fiction. I am delighted to announce that our Call for Entries is now open, presenting a fantastic opportunity for writers amongst your network at Writers' Federation of New Brunswick to showcase recent works to a wider audience.

Previous winners and finalists from the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award have gone on to achieve recognition around the world, having been selected from over 3,000 entries to be published in the anthology. Last year, poetry winner and award-winning novelist Sylvia Adams was selected for her piece Hands A Choice, and Jennifer Roe championed the Short Fiction category with Roses are Red.

Prizes include:

� Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, a compelling anthology of new writing loved by audiences internationally

� A selection of inspirational books from our competition partners

� �500 prize money for Poetry and Short Fiction winners

� Editorial coverage on the Aesthetica Blog


We are really keen to engage with writers in Canada. It would be great if you could circulate the following information about this excellent opportunity:
 
 
Writer Retreat

Tourism NB and two BC author/instructors have joined to create the Writers' Cultural Immersion Week in Dalhousie, on the Bay of Chaleur, NB.

The event is a combination of learning/improving writing skills, in several genres, and cultural involvement in the local community, all designed to inspire. A learning & fun holiday!

All details at: Immersion 

Early bird discount until May 1, 2014

 
Member News and Readings
 
Some news and readings of possible interest to members
 
Valerie Sherrard's young adult novel Counting Back from Nine continues to garner accolades. The novel in free verse was shortlisted last fall for a Governor General's Literary Award, and won the 2013 Word Guild Award. Since then, it has been shortlisted for Ontario's Red Maple Award as as well as Saskatchewan's Snow Willow Award, and has been named one of the top ten young adult novels of 2013 in the Ontario Library Association's Best Bets lists.

 

 

 

 

Joseph Koot:
Looking for Bill, Finding Myself Clifftop Consulting Services Inc.

 

"Between the tractor's weight and earth's firmness, my brother Bill had just lost his life." Joseph's childhood ended that day. From a cheese farm in Holland, his family had immigrated to a mixed farm in Southern Ontario. He welcomed learning English and adapting to Canadian ways while valuing family tradition. Challenged as the youngest of a dozen siblings, Joseph was wounded by Bill's hurtful yet caring physical contact and by loneliness as a young teen in the seminary. In retirement Joseph healed by hiking across Europe, enjoying his grandchildren and writing these memoirs.

"Looking for Bill, Finding Myself" is available from Tidewater Books in Sackville, New Brunswick at www.tidewaterbooks.ca or phone 506-536-0404.

 

  

 

Maika E. Branch (11 years old) published by RedemptionHouse publishing from Halifax will be launching her first young fiction novel on Saturday April 26th around 3.45 in the afternoon in the lobby of the Capitol theatre, 

 

A school field trip is a time for fun, learning, and relaxation, but when Mr. Murfty's class takes an overnight field trip to the Calagarmii Cliffs, two young girls get more of an adventure then they had ever imagined.

The legendary Calagarmii Cliffs is the perfect place for these young girls to explore, full of plants and animals not seen anywhere else in the world. The cliffs are truly a unique place. Emma and Kaila, two average, school aged girls, sneak off to explore on their own, and soon find themselves lost in a new world.

Trapped in the newly discovered strange world with no way back to their classmates, Emma and Kaila must learn to work together and believe in themselves. With the help of a resident of the new world, Stefia, who is on her own mission, and a courageous creature, Squirt, the girls find themselves bargaining with cunning spirits and battling dangerous foes in order to find a way back.

Friendship binds them, hope guides them, and by working together, the three girls prove that by trusting in each other they can defeat even the greatest odds.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maika-Evelyn Branch resides and goes to middle school in Moncton, New Brunswick. She lives with her parents and older brother. Having a Dutch mother and a French-speaking father, she learned to speak three languages at a very young age. Since the age of six, she has showed a passion for reading and writing. She loves to act and sign in musicals, to play on the computer and be with her friends. Maika started writing Calagarmii Cliffs as a personal summer project at the age of ten and is delighted to be a published author at eleven years old. Valerie's Blog Site  

 

 
 
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