24th Annual Island Literary Awards Announce Winners
The 24th Annual Island Literary Awards Ceremony was held Sunday, October 2nd. This annual ceremony was the culmination of the Pen & Inkling Festival, a week-long celebration of literature and the literary arts. The festival included visiting authors, workshops, music and dancing, and was the second of its kind to take place in PEI. Two hundred people from all over PEI descended on the Guild on Sunday afternoon for the festival’s crowning event. This event was hosted by Fraser McCallum, Erin Casey, and Lee Ellen Pottie, who brought a bi-lingual element to this celebration. This...
Read MorePress Release: Pen & Inkling Festival
Press Release: Pen & Inkling Festival Charlottetown, September 15th, 2011 – A start-studded celebration of the literary arts will take place in Charlottetown between September 27 and October 2, 2011. The festival will kick off with Wayne Johnston, author of *The Colony of Unrequited Dreams*, reading from his new book: *A World Elsewhere* at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Illustrious poet and musician Tanya Davis, as well as local celebrities Meaghan Blanchard, Fraser McCallum, Nudie, and Drea Macdonald will fill the Haviland Club with song on September 28th, for a songwriters...
Read MoreDrew Hayden Taylor invité d’honneur du festival
Gagnant de multiples prix, écrivain, dramaturge, cinéaste et comédien des Premières Nations, Drew Hayden Taylor fera sa première visite à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard en tant qu’invité d’honneur du festival « Pen & Inkling ». M. Taylor est un Ojibway des Premiers Nations de Curve-Lake en Ontario. Tout au long de sa prolifique carrière et de ses voyages internationaux, il a essayé d’éduquer et d’informer le monde sur des sujets reflétant, célébrant et interférant avec la vie des peuples des Premières Nations du Canada. Drew Hayden Taylor sera...
Read MorePEI Writers’ Guild Announces Pen & Inkling Festival
Charlottetown, July 20th, 2011 – As part of Charlottetown’s 2011 Cultural Capital of Canada designation, the City of Charlottetown, and the PEI Writers’ Guild, are pleased to announce several new initiatives for the fall of 2011. The Pen & Inkling Festival will celebrate the literary arts on Prince Edward Island, between September 28 and October 2, 2011, in Charlottetown. The festival will kickoff with a songwriters circle featuring illustrious poet and musician Tanya Davis. She was recently named the Mayor’s Poet Laureate of Halifax, and has recently launched a new book of...
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