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Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival – Authors Coming to the 2015 Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival
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Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival. Sponsors & Donors. Thank you to the authors who accepted our invitation to the October 2-4 2015 Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival. See their photos and bios below. Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Will be published by HarperCollins Canada and William Morrow (USA). Photo by Ayelet Tsabari. Magazine, a publication that turned her life toward writing. Her first collection.
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Links - John Vigna
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John Vigna - Writer, Author of Bull Head - Vancouver, BC. Anne McDermid and Associates. University of British Columbia Creative Writing.
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John Vigna: November 2012
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Friday, November 30, 2012. Quill and Quire Books of the Year. BULL HEAD was selected by Quill and Quire review editor, Steven W. Beattie, as a book of the year along with four other titles. For more information and to see the list, go here. Saturday, November 24, 2012. At the Mike Series in Victoria, Nov 27. If you are in Victoria on Nov 27, join Lee Henderson, John Gould and myself in conversation at 7pm at Cadboro Bay Books. Monday, November 19, 2012. Toronto: Type Books, Nov 21. This Wednesday, Nov 21.
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Anne McDermid & Associates Ltd.: Smart Investors Require a Business Plan
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Friday, December 10, 2010. Smart Investors Require a Business Plan. PART 5 IN A SERIES on the business of writing. Anne McDermid and Associates is partnering with One Writer’s Voice. To issue a series of posts on the business of writing based on the premise that writing, like publishing, is undergoing profound change. The series will post weekly, alternating between the McDermid blog and One Writer’s Voice. Smart Investors Require a Business Plan. We look forward to questions and comments.
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Anne McDermid & Associates Ltd.: No Writer is an Island
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Thursday, August 12, 2010. No Writer is an Island. PART 4 IN A SERIES on the business of writing. Anne McDermid and Associates is partnering with One Writer’s Voice. To issue a series of posts on the business of writing based on the premise that writing, like publishing, is undergoing profound change. The series will post weekly, alternating between the McDermid blog and One Writer’s Voice. No Writer is an Island. Is the fourth post in our series and is up now at One Writer's Voice. SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOG.
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Anne McDermid & Associates Ltd.: July 2010
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Sunday, July 25, 2010. Good Writing isn’t Enough. PART 1 OF A SERIES. In this brave, new world, writers must also be business and technology savvy, know how to promote themselves, how to connect with customers, how to analyze their competition, how to determine and develop their brand and how to make money. In essence, they need to be entrepreneurs. We hope these articles will inform, spark dialogue and facilitate new thinking amongst writers, literary agents, publishers and retailers. By guest-blogger L...
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John Vigna: Booklist: "Impressive Debut Collection"
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Thursday, May 16, 2013. Booklist: "Impressive Debut Collection". Recently, Booklist reviewed BULL HEAD and had some great things to say about it: "Muscular, lyrical prose . The characters, mostly men toughened byhardscrabble living, are drawn with understanding, insight, and brutal honesty. This impressive debut collection will appeal to readers of literary fiction like James Dickey's Deliverance. Larry Brown's Joe, and Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories.". The full review can be found here.
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John Vigna: Danuta Gleed Award Shortlist
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Saturday, May 18, 2013. Danuta Gleed Award Shortlist. BULL HEAD has made the shortlist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The Award recognizes the best first English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2012. Other nominees include Rebecca Lee, Paul Marlowe, Anton Piatigorsky, and Yasuko Thanh. For more details on the award and each nominated book, click here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). John Vigna is the author of Bull Head. Danuta Gleed Award Shortlist.
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John Vigna: February 2013
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Friday, February 15, 2013. Gripping Mountain Gothic Literature". The wise and generous Bob Ede, over at East Kootenay News Online Weekly (e-know.ca), asked me some insightful questions in a wide-ranging interview that gets to the heart of process in writing BULL HEAD. The interview sheds light on violence, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, the harsh beauty of the Elk Valley, curses, the changing role of men, and the importance of basketball in my life.
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John Vigna: June 2013
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Saturday, June 29, 2013. Some fine Calgary writers - Ian Brown, Marcello Di Cintio, Debbie Willis, Samantha Warwick and others - share their thoughts on the recent flood. Read the article here. Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Danuta Gleed Award Finalist. Congratulations to Rebecca Lee for winning the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her collection, Bobcat and Other Stories. Bull Head was a finalist along with Anton Piatigorsky’s The Iron Bridge. For more information, click here. Danuta Gleed Award Finalist.
