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	<title>BC Book and Magazine Week 2009 (April 18-25)</title>
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		<title>Terry Glavin named recipient of the sixth annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver, BC – The West Coast Book Prize Society is proud to recognize Terry Glavin as the recipient of the sixth annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
British Columbia’s Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Steven Point, will present the award at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala to be held at the Marriott Pinnacle Hotel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=317</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Magazine Cabaret tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MAGAZINE CABARET: VANCOUVER
Tuesday, April 21 · 7 PM · FREE
The Railway Club (Backroom), 579 Dunsmuir Street

The BC Association of Magazine Publishers and subTerrain magazine presents a literary cabaret featuring Timothy Taylor, Paul Carlucci, Emily Kendy, penny k-kilthau, Alex Leslie and Diane Tucker, who will read from their work recently published in BC magazines. Hosted by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=314</link>
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		<title>The Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria Presents FRESH! (Friends Recycling Energy, Sharing Hope)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 23-29, CACGV Gallery, G6 1001 Douglas St. (Sussex courtyard), 250.381.2787, info@cacgv.ca, www.cacgv.ca
Collage and Poetry: Earth, Fire, Sky, Water
Poets and artists call/respond to each other, integrating words and pictures and involving the greater community.
Opening event: Thursday, April 23, 7-9pm
Child and celebrity readings.
Chris Trygg &#38; The Light Sweet Crude Band, playing music based on poetry.
Dance by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=311</link>
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		<title>And we&#8217;re off!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a balmy Saturday inside the atrium at the Public Library on Saturday; thanks to everyone who came by! We gave away free magazines and lot&#8217;s of prizes. There was an art demonstration from Crow Toes Quarterly, readings, a publisher&#8217;s panel and more writers, publishers and editors than you could shake a stick at. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ekstasies 4: A Reading in Support of Literacy Victoria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hosted by Victoria’s Poet Laureate, Linda Rogers
Ekstasies celebrates literacy with readings from both new and experienced writers. Linda Rogers will introduce three new readers from Literacy Victoria during the first half of this extraordinary annual fund-raising event. Rogers will then be joined by four other writers: Tim Lilburn, Anne Swannell, Yvonne Blomer and Elizabeth Rhett [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=289</link>
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		<title>All editorial consultation slots now full</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had an overwhelming response to our free one-on-one editorial consultations, which will be held in Vancouver at at the WordsConnect Book &#38; Magazine Festival this Saturday, and unfortunately, we cannot accept any more appointments&#8211;our editors, from the BC Branch of the Editors&#8217; Association of Canada, are all booked up.
If you weren&#8217;t able to score [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=287</link>
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		<title>Seven days (!) and counting</title>
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This week&#8217;s Georgia Straight checks in on how BC&#8217;s publishing industry is faring in the current economic climate, and finds it&#8217;s not all doom and gloom: &#8220;BC Book &#38; Magazine Week celebrates new lines for tough times.&#8221;


BCBMW fun fact: Writer, filmmaker and performance artist Amber Dawn, who edited the queer women&#8217;s horror-erotica anthology Fist of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=281</link>
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		<title>Go one-on-one with an editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a piece you&#8217;d eventually like to get published&#8211;be it a romance novel or a travel article&#8211;languishing somewhere on your computer because you&#8217;re not quite sure it&#8217;s &#8220;ready&#8221; yet? Or just looking for some impartial, constructive feedback on a story pitch?
Sign up for a free ten-minute editorial consultation with a professional editor from the Editors&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=276</link>
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		<title>Whoops!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the BCBMW posters you may have seen around town have an incorrect date on the front side: the Victoria Magazine Cabaret is on Monday, April 20 at 7 pm, not April 21. My Victoria contact tells me she was able to correct most of the posters she&#8217;s put up, and all our other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=274</link>
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		<title>A precursor to the BCBMW events: Barbara Bluman Lecture Series at the VPL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join us for the launch of this powerful new memoir: I Have My Mother’s Eyes, by Barbara Ruth Bluman. The evening will feature a reading a talk by Barbara’s daughter Danielle. It’s in the Alice MacKay Room at the Vancouver Public Library’s downtown branch at 7:30pm on Monday April 13. Books will be available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bcbookandmagazineweek.com/?p=265</link>
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