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Winners Announced for the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba!
We’re thrilled to share the recipients of this year’s Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba! Head over to the Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba tab on our website to find out. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
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Manitoba Book Awards 2020 Shortlist Release
On behalf of the coalition producing the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards/Les Prix du livre du Manitoba, we are excited to share the shortlists for 11 separate awards recognizing excellence in Manitoba writing, book design, and publishing. Check out the tab Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba above. Congratulations to all the nominees! Starting…
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Greetings from a safe distance! WIWF Updates on COVID-19
How’s everyone holding up out there? These truly are wild and uncertain times, and we sincerely hope you are staying safe, healthy, well, and hopeful through it. We are receiving notices every day about cancellations or postponements, and it’s certainly the case in the literary zone here in Winnipeg. Events in our Spring Literary series…
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Writes of Spring: National Poetry Month – extended to March 20th
Writes of Spring will be published in a two-page spread in the Winnipeg Free Press’s 49.8 section in the month of April. We’re happy to report that Writes of Spring, the poetry initiative spearheaded by Ariel Gordon in partnership with the Winnipeg Free Press, will actually happen! There will not be a rowdy launch at McNally…
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Call for Submissions: Writes of Spring
For the past four years, the Winnipeg Free Press has hosted a National Poetry Month project edited by Ariel Gordon. Now for the fifth anniversary of the project, we are delighted to be teaming up with Ariel, and to celebrate, we’ve come up with a new name: welcome to Writes of Spring! Taking a page from the…
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Speaking Crow: March Edition with Amber O’Reilly
Join us for our monthly poetry open mic series in the cozy Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd floor of the Millennium Library! Our featured reader for March is multilingual spoken word poet Amber O’Reilly, a French-Canadian and multilingual poet, spoken word and theatre artist from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She has performed at Northwords NWT, Speaking Crow,…
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Speaking Crow: February Edition with Chimwemwe Undi
Join us for our monthly poetry open mic series in the cozy Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd floor of the Millennium Library! Our February featured reader is Chimwemwe Undi! Sign up 7pm, featured readers at 7:15 with open mic to follow!
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Speaking Crow: January Edition with The Polyglot Magazine
Join us for our monthly poetry open mic series in the cozy Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd floor of the Millennium Library! Our January featured readers will be representing The Polyglot Magazine, sharing original and translated works in various languages! Sign up 7pm, featured readers at 7:15 with open mic to follow!
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Word Power, with Cliff Cardinal and Waawaate Fobister
WORD POWER, with Cliff Cardinal and Waawaate Fobister Saturday, December 7, 7:30pm Rachel Browne Theatre, 2nd floor, 211 Bannatyne Free! Register HERE ABOUT: What can words do? Two award-winning playwrights and performers take the stage at the Rachel Browne Theatre on Saturday, December 7, 7:30pm. Cliff Cardinal, playwright, actor, and musician, stunned Winnipeg crowds a few…