CNQ & TNQ Launch the Salon Des Refuses
The capacity for criticism is the capacity for enjoyment. – Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
Please join us for the official launch of the joint CNQ/TNQ Salon Des Refuses!
A critical and artistic response to The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Jane Urquhart,
in which we tweak the beak of the Canadian Penguin and put forward work by twenty of the best short
story writers in the country not included in said anthology.
DATE: Wednesday, August 13, 2008
TIME: 8:30-10:30 pm
LOCATION: Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West in Toronto
Hosted by Pages' This Is Not A Reading Series
The event will include readings and a panel discussion on the role of criticism, canon-making, and the state
of the Canadian short story.
The Salon features stories by Mike Barnes, Heather Birrell, Clark Blaise, Sharon English, Cynthia Flood,
Keath Fraser, Douglas Glover, Terry Griggs, Mark Anthony Jarman, Elizabeth Harver, Steven Heighton,
Hugh Hood, Norman Levine, John Metcalf, Bharati Mukherjee, Patricia Robertson, Diane Schoemperlen,
Ray Smith, Russell Smith, and Patricia Young.
With critical contributions and appreciations by Caroline Adderson, Steven Beattie, Don Coles, Michael
Darling, Stephen Henighan, Adrian Michael Kelly, Annabel Lyon, John Metcalf, Eric Ormsby, and Michael
Winter, among others.
Curated by Daniel Wells and Kim Jernigan.
For further information, contact Daniel Wells at 519-968-2206 or via email at biblioasis@gmail.com; or Kim
Jernigan at 519-884-8111 ext. 28290 or via email at editor@tnq.ca.
Biblioasis Presents
The Fourth Annual Metcalf-Rooke Award
Previous winners:
2005 -- Patricia Young. Airstream. (short fiction)
2006 -- Kathleen Winter. boYs. (short fiction)
2007 -- Rebecca Rosenblum. Once. (short fiction)
This year's winner will receive:
* a publishing contract with BIBLIOASIS
* a leather-bound copy of their book
* a $1,500 cash prize, presented by Stephen Temple Books
* a regional book tour, including festival appearances
* a profile in The New Quarterly
and much more...
THE OBJECTIVE of the competition is to uphold and celebrate the tradition of small-press publishing
and independent bookselling in Canada, and to champion the writing of new and up-and-coming Canadian
writers.
THE COMPETITION is open to all Canadian writers with an unpublished book-length manuscript of
short or novel-length fiction. Manuscripts must be titled, double-spaced and unstapled. The author's name
should not appear on the manuscript. All entires must be accompanied by a separate page containing the
contestant's full name, mailing address, telephone number, email address (optional), manuscript title and
brief bio (which should include a list of all previously published and forthcoming works). Manuscripts will not
be returned.
SUBMISSIONS must be postmarked no later than September 30, 2008. A shortlist will be
announced at the beginning of November. The winning manuscript will be announced November 30 with publication
of the work in 2009.
SEND YOUR MANUSCRIPTS TO
The Metcalf-Rooke Award
c/o Biblioasis
P.O. Box 92
Emeryville, ON
N0R IC0
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