Come out and join students and alumni from Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio as they read poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction. Readers and listeners are welcome, and being part of The Writer's Studio is not a requirement for participation. Admission is free.
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- ANNA LING KAYE is a fictionary from TWS 2007.
- MANDANA RASTAN is excited to have started the new year with a fantastic group of writers in TWS. Her articles have been published in The Vancouver Sun, Canadian Immigrant, Balanced Life, and Grassroots. She has also read her work on CBC Radio, Co-op Radio, and at the World Poetry Reading Series. Tonight she will be sharing some of her latest creations.
- GEOFF COLE reunited with the gang for one last heist after graduation from TWS 2007, after which he planned to retire to a quiet life of writing. Unfortunately the gang couldn’t fit all those cows in the trucks they’d rented and the deal went sour. Now, dodging the law, and the beef board, Geoff has been writing under a pseudonym and stealing single-serving tuna cans for protein. Tonight he will be reading from the entirely un-autobiographical “The Most Successful Man In The World.”
- ALEV ERSAN tells us that Alev in Turkish means ‘flame’. Cut the word in half – al ev – and the syllables assume different meaning on their own. ‘take’ and ‘home’. Alev completed TWS 2007 and is currently working on a manuscript of poetic writing from which she will read a sequence of poems tonight.
- PAT BUCKNA provides and operates the sound system for our Blenz readings and attended The Writer’s Studio in 2002. This year he has returned to TWS as an adjunct writer and is working on his family memoir Tell Me No Secrets.
- JOAN FLOOD is a new member of TWS 2008. In tonight’s piece she will be remembering life in Ontario as a new immigrant.
- DAVID ANTROBUS is a TWSer from 2005.
- ELEE KRALJII GARDINER, TWS 2006, is a freelance writer at work on a novel about archiving and the evaporation of memory. Most recently her work was published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine.
