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Readings
2008
Poets, Authors & Writers |
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Festival Schedule
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Festival Special Guest
Opening the Festival
11 a.m. Sharp!
Lynn has succeeded in giving Canadians a realization of
their wonderful heritage and history.
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Lynn Phillip Hodgson,
Canadian Best Seller Author
Lynn will be available to sign any of his
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Lynn Philip Hodgson has dedicated half of his life
to uncovering the most detailed secrets of
Camp-X.
On March 7th 2005, Lynn won the "Lifetime
Achievement Award" for 2004. This award is issued
by the Ontario Heritage Foundation and reads as
follows:
"Presented to: Lynn Philip Hodgson
In appreciation of a lifetime of volunteer work to
identify,
preserve, protect and promote our province's rich
heritage."
Signed: The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander,
Chairman Ontario Heritage Foundation - 2004
Lynn is also Canadian Associate Editor of 'Eye Spy
Magazine'; a magazine dealing with intelligence
activities and read in thirty-nine countries.
http://www.eyespymag.com/consultants.htm
He is also an elected Municipal Councillor for
Ward 3 in Scugog Township and is Chair of the
Works Committee. |
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Al Nichols, TV Host
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MC Al Nichols
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Born and raised in the city of
Oshawa, Al is a graduate of York and Niagara
Universities and retired teacher. Having had experience
in film, radio and regional theatre, Al turned his
attention to volunteering at Rogers TV, where he hosted
his own program, LIFETIME DURHAM. There he was able to
highlight many local artists in the literary world. His
participation here at the Second Annual STELLAR LITERARY
FESTIVAL shows his continued support of creative
individuals and their endeavours.
Congratulations to Stella Ducker and her industrious
crew in providing a venue for talent in our community. |
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Chester Stocki
being interviewed on Rogers TV |
Festival
Videographer - Chester Stocki
Video-Pro-Motion
Featured on
Hollywood.com
The videographer for the Stellar Literary Festival
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Chester Stocki,
Co-founder & Vice President of FAMEd
Chester is on record as being the first independent film
produced
"The Proud Rider"
Chester Stocki:
Director / 1971 / Released / CFP Distribution
Chester Stocki:
Screenplay / 1971 / Released / CFP Distribution
Chester is very active promoting the film industry
and the music community in the Durham Region / GTA.
Chester creates real estates commercials for sale of
residential
homes & commercial buildings. He also produces music
videos
and short movies.
www.famed.ca
www.Video-Pro-Motion.com
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Confirmed to Date
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Cover of his lst CD
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Andrew James, Songwriter /
Musician
Andrew has been writing music and playing his guitar,
harmonica and piano since the age of 10, “ever since I can
remember I have been writing melodies in my head”.
He wrote a song for the 2000 Ontario Olympic Summer Games that
was part of a documentary played on Rogers Television
throughout Ontario.
His main love is to write songs and perform them in front of
live audiences.
Presently, he is busy working on his second cd and is hoping
to complete it by the end of the year. |
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Featured Speaker
John B.
Lee, Poet Laureate
Topic: Writing Poetry
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Featured
Speaker
Poet Laureate
of the City of Brantford
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John B. Lee
John B. Lee is the recipient of over 60 prestigious
international awards in poetry. The most recent of his nearly
50 published books include How Beautiful We Are, winner of the
2006 Orion Souwesto Award; and Godspeed.
Both books were published in 2006 by Black Moss Press. He was
recently named winner of the Winston Collins Best Canadian
Poem Award (Descant magazine). He lives with his wife Cathy in
Brantford where he was named Poet Laureate of Brantford in
perpetuity in 2005. His work has been translated into Spanish,
Korean, French and Chinese.
His poetry, which has appeared in over 500 publications, has
earned Lee many grants and awards, most significant of which
have been the CBC Tilden Award and the People’s Poetry Award
(twice). He has also written children’s books, plays, short
stories, reviews, a writer’s guide, and memoirs, and has
edited numerous anthologies of poetry, including Smaller than
God. In addition to writing and editing, Lee was
writer-in-residence at Kitchener Public Library in 2001 and
has given many public readings of his work and facilitated
poetry workshops for school children.
In the winter of 2007& 2008 , he participated in CCLA events
organized and hosted Cuba, including holding a workshop. Twice featured in The
Ambassador, his work has appeared internationally in over 500
publications. |
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Featured Poet
R. D. Roy
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R. D. Roy, Poet
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R.D. Roy is originally from Montreal. His Anglo/Francophone
heritage and working class background are often reflected in
his writing. He's published two collections of short
stories, The Colours Found in Bruises, (Panegyric Press) and a
short novel, A Pre-emptive Kindness, (Hidden Brook Press). His
work has appeared in several anthologies and Montreal’s Matrix
magazine. Roy's first book of poetry, Three Cities, was
released by Hidden Brook Press in 2008.
Roy was a feature reader at the International Book Fair in
Havana (2007, 2008), the Al Purdy People's Poetry festival,
2007, Hot Sauced Words, Toronto (2008), and with Toronto's DUB
poetry collective (2006, 2007).- He is the "Official House
Poet" to the Organic Underground Restaurant in Belleville, and
a member of The League of Canadian Poets, PEN Canada, and the
Canada-Cuba Literary Alliance. Roy is a contributing editor to
the CCLA's quarterly, The Ambassador.
He is currently working on the Street Health Centre's
Writers' Anthology. A collaborative collection of poems that
examine " Life & Death in Cheap Motels" will be released some
time in the future by Roy and Kingston writer/poet Jen Londry |
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Featured Speaker / Author
Rozena Maart |
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Dr. Rozena Maart is a writer, professor and
a trained psychoanalyst, currently living in
Canada. She has been recognized for her writing, and
for her work opposing apartheid
and violence against women. She has lectured throughout Canada
and the United States.
In 1987 when she was 24, Rozena was nominated for the “Woman
of the Year” award hosted in Johannesburg, for her work
opposing violence against women and for starting,
with four women, the first Black feminist organization in Cape
Town, Women Against Repression (WAR).She moved to Canada in
1989 and published her first book of poetry in 1990, Talk
About It!. She won the Journey Prize
in 1992 for her short story "No Rosa, No District Six",
which later appeared in her debut short story collection
Rosa's District Six. She is the
author of several books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction
and novels, most recently the novel The Writing Circle,
published in December 2007 by TSAR Publishers in Toronto
and SHUTER Publishers in South Africa in May 2008. The
Writing Circle is being made into a feature film in South
Africa. |
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Featured Singing Poet
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Sang for:
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Toronto Mayor David Miller
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Honey Novick
Honey is a singer/songwriter/voice teacher/poet who lives in
Toronto. For the Luminato Festival, Summer of Love Project
Gallery of memories, she was named "Poet Laureate", for
creating the "Yorkville Memories" poem, an honour she still
finds both humbling and dizzying.
Wrote music for:
Anthems for Canada-Cuba
Friendship Day (6 years in a row)
for municipal and federal Canadian governments
Composer for TVO campaign
song "Way to Go TVO"
Awards: CAPAC (Composers, Authors, Publishers
Association of Canada)
7 years in a row.
Yamaha Classical Music Competition
(vocals), Tokyo, Japan
Ben and Hilda Katz Foundation:
Ossington Institute; Opportune Productions
Nominee:
Nominated for Peace Ambassador
Women Who Make A Difference
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POETS
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Domenico Capilongo
Domenico Capilongo's writing has appeared in publications
abroad and in Canadian literary journals including, The New
Quarterly, Filling Station, Descant, and Acta Victoriana. In
2006 he was short-listed for Lichen Literary Journal's
“Tracking A Serial Poet” contest and he received an honourable
mention in the Toronto Star's 2004 Poetry Contest. Capilongo
lived in Vancouver and Swift Current before finally settling
in Toronto.
He teaches high school creative writing and alternative
education. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies
in Canada and abroad. In 2004, he won Honourable Mention in
The Toronto Star Poetry Contest and his work has been
nominated for The Journey Prize. He lives in Toronto with his
wife and two sons.
His first collection of poetry, I thought Elvis was Italian,
was published by Wolsak and Wynn in April 2008. |
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Canadian Authors Association - Toronto Branch
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Flavia
Cosma
Flavia Cosma is an acclaimed poet who publishes work in
Romanian, and in English translated from the Romanian. She has
more than 20 books to her credit.
Flavia's
latest
literary accomplishment:
Sexto Certamen Internacional de Poesia 2008 "La
Lectora Impatiente" -
Shortlisted in the 6th Poetry Competition with
the poem Danza
Third Prize in the John Dryden Translation
Competition 2007,
for the translation of In The Arms of The Father,
poems by Flavia Cosma |
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Liisa Hypponen
Liisa is a Toronto native of Finnish descent, works at honing
her writing craft which includes taking several on-line poetry
and short story courses as well as her current enrolment in
Ryerson University’s Magazine Publishing Certificate Program.
Liisa has been published in Reader’s Digest’s, Life’s Like
That, the Toronto Star’s, Your Home Section and the CAA
Toronto Branch Anthology, Stumbling through Darkness. Liisa
currently serves on the executive of the CAA Toronto Branch
and is an avid booster of its motto: “Writers Helping
Writers.” |
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Bianca Lakoseljac
Bianca (Queed)
Lakoseljac is an author, an educator, an environmentalist, a
mother and wife, and a lover of arts and all creative
endeavours. She is a Masters of Arts graduate of York
University and the recipient of the 1995 Matthew
Ahern Memorial Award in Literature.
She is president for
the Canadian Authors Association, Toronto Branch and served on
a panel of contest judges for the 2008 Canadian Aid Literary
Award Contest.
Since 1995 Bianca has taught
communication courses
at Ryerson University and Humber College in Toronto. She has
placed her teaching career aside to pursue writing.
Her short
stories and poems have been published in a number of
anthologies.
Bianca has just
completed her first novel, The Summer of the Dancing Bear,
which chronicles the “rite of passage” of a fourteen-year old
girl befriended by a Gypsy clan and is set in the former
Yugoslavia. She is also working on a sequel to her novel and
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Maria Pia
Marchelletta
Maria studied both Italian and
French literature and grammar at the University of
Toronto.Here she obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts and a
Bachelor of Education from the Faculty of Education. She has
taught French and Italian at both the elementary and secondary
levels since 1978.
Her passions include reading,
and writing English, Italian and French poetry, short stories
and essays. She belongs to various poetry associations: The
Ontario Poetry Society, Canadian Authors Association, Vaughan
Poet’s Circle, The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers,
Canadian Federation of Poets, Poetry Ireland, the League of
Canadian Poets, and Toastmasters International where she has
shared her poetry.
Most recent publications
include The Poet Band Company of Pennsylvania, The Ontario
Poetry Society, Brindin Press, Tertulia Magazine and the
Canadian Federation of Poets. She published her first chapbook
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Jennifer Payne
Mary Jennifer Payne is a Toronto-based author, freelance
writer/editor, teacher and social activist. She is a graduate
of Queen's University (Canada) and holds a Master of Arts
degree in Public History from the University of Western
Ontario. Her writing has been published in journals,
anthologies and literary magazines in both Canada and the UK.
Jennifer has written and edited a wide variety of material,
including: short stories, articles, educational material,
novels and manuals. She’s the author of several graphic
stories for young people including Lion of Africa, a graphic
text about the life of Nelson Mandela. Jennifer is currently
finishing her first full-length novel for young adults,
Crippled Pigeons, for which she received a grant from the
Toronto Arts Council. |
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Mel Sarnese
Mel is a Toronto poet published in literary journals such as
Labour of Love and Qulls. Her work has been broadcast on the
CBC Radio and TVOntario.
She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, The Ontario
Poetry Society. the Writers and Editors Network, a
professional member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto,
the Federation of Canadian Poets and the Association of
Italian Canadian Writers. Mel has edited the anthology, the
Poetry of Relationships (FCP) and has published a chapbook,
'Leper's Cave' (Beret Days Press).
She has performed her own poetry at The Bowery Poetry Cafe in
NYC and has featured at Clinton's Art Bar Poetry Series.
Mel is an executive member of the Canadian Authors
Association. |
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Poetry Groups
Canada Cuba Literary Alliance
Anyone that joins the CCLA at the
2nd Stellar Literary Festival may be invited to read with the
group.
Please let the person know as you sign-up. Thanks!
Richard will also be speaking about
Publishing & answering questions.
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Richard Grove: Coordinate & Lead CCLA Members Group Reading
Richard Grove is an editor and publisher
and runs a growing
publishing company
called
Hidden Brook Press from
which he publishes poetry contest anthologies and books
of
every genre for authors around the world.
Richard is the founder of the
Canadian Poet Registry.
He was an active member of the Canadian Poetry
Association for ten years serving on the executive for
seven years including five as President. He is the
founding president of both the CCLA (2004) –
Canada Cuba Literary Alliance
- CCLA Federation of Photographers (2006). He is
the founding president of the Brighton Arts Council and
the co-founder of the Purdy Country Literary Festival &
CCLA Art & Lit Fest.
Aug 5th 2007
He has been invited by a number of literary groups as
Feature Speaker on various topics in Cuba, Germany, USA,
New Zealand and Canada. He was also the Feature Author
as publisher/poet in the October 1998 issue of “The
Treasure Chest” published out of Virginia, USA and
Feature Poet in “Poetry Canada” in 2004.
CCLA Member Readers
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Stella Ducker
Graham Ducker
R.D. Roy
Kim Grove
Deborah Panko |
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Richard Grove
Donna Langavin
John B. Lee
Shane Joseph |
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Richard Grove,
President
Hidden Brook Press
Mr. Grove will be speaking and
answering your questions on the subject
we all want to know but find so confusing, - publishing.
There will be a special book
launch by this publisher at the Stellar Literary Festival!
You may forward an
e-mail with your question and Mr. Grove may choose
your e-mails to answer at the Stellar Literary Festival.
r.grove.publisher@stellarliteraryfestival.com
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George Arnold,
CFP National Co-coordinator
CFP Oakville Chair
Vice President Oakville Arts Council
George Arnold never dreamed of
writing poetry as anything more than a passing fancy
during his BC high school years. He stopped writing
after school and finally picked up the muse again some
25 years later. Now, George is the Canadian Federation
of Poets’
National Co-ordinator and the local Chair for the
Oakville chapter of the CFP. In the 4
years since he returned to writing he has won two CFP
Poet of the year awards and compiled over 300 poems. He
is the proud step-father of two beautiful young ladies
and adores his wife and soul mate Roz.
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George Arnold will
lead the member readings.
CFP Readers: |
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Debbie Ouellet
Debbie Ouellet lives in Loretto, Ontario. Her work has
been published in The Writers Journal, Poetry Canada,
Scholastic Academic Publishing, Azimov’s, Cicada,
About.Com Poetry Winter Anthology, various anthologies,
Cricket, Chirp, and chickaDEE Magazines, and in the
children’s book, Animals on Parade. Her first children’s
book, How Robin Saved Spring, is scheduled for release
in spring 2009. |
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Cheryl Antao-Xavier
Cheryl
Antao-Xavier has been writing poetry for over 20 years
and her poems have been published in anthologies and
literary magazines. In May 2008, her first book, a
collection of poems written over these years was
published through her publishing company, In Our Words.
Cheryl’s poems are vignettes of the human experience
that capture the trials and angst of people in
transition and women in subjugation. Cheryl is the chair
of the Peel region branch of the Canadian Federation of
Poets and a member of The Ontario Poetry Society and the
Mississauga Arts Council. |
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James R. Quinn
James Quinn is an author, poet, and musician. He has
authored and independently published his book titled
“TRANSPARENT”- The Personal sentiments of one man’s
reality. It is a 168 page collection of poems,
narratives & essays. Over the past year, (while on a
sabbatical), James
wrote writing a number of unpublished works including: A
Journey to Haiku, Prayer, A Requiem, The Myth of Human
Being, In Recognition, When I’m Alone, and The Innercity.n a James’ book The
Myth of Human Being, was reviewed by Michael Collier, a poetry
reviewer "an earnest and
ambitious collection of philosophical poems" |
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Joanna Gale
Joanna Gale
chose her nom de plume by rearranging her original names
as a different way to represent her individuality. She
is a
member of both The Ontario Poetry Society and The
Canadian Federation of Poets. Her first chapbook,
Workshop Sketches, was published in 2007 by Beret
Days Press. She has been published online and in a
variety of newsletters, chapbooks, and anthologies. She
was a runner-up in The Utmost Christian Poets Contest in
2005, and most recently placed 4th in a contest with
Ascent Aspirations and will be published in their Spring
Anthology.
She is a regular contributor to the
art/poetry program at the Burlington Arts Centre, and
guest poet at The Poetry Cafe in Oakville. She likes to
write poetry that has a healing quality.
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Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews was born in Italy and
emigrated to Canada at the age of 13. She studied
Italian and French Literature and has taught in both
languages for many years. Currently she is pursuing a
Masters Degree in Italian Literature.
Josie's passions are reading and writing, especially
poetry. Her poetry has appeared in magazines and
anthologies and she has won several prizes for her work
in both English and Italian. Her poetry in Italian won
the Jury Prize at the Ottawa Italian Week Literary
Contest in 2004, 2005 and 2006. She won first prize in
the free verse competition of the Ontario Poetry
Society's 2006 Winsome Words Anthology and won first
prize in the 2008 Arborealis Prize for Poetry.
Her non-fiction book "How the Italians Created Canada"
was released in February 2008. The work highlights the
major, yet often unacknowledged contributions of Italian
immigrants to Canada's historical, social and cultural
fabric.
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Tony Valuch
Tony Valuch is from Toronto, Canada. He holds
undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature
and Education. His poetry is concerned with the natural
world, man’s inner nature, societal grievances, and
rites of passage. He has had his poetry published in
magazines and journals in both South Korea and Canada,
and published his first book BLOODRUSHES in 2005. He
does poetry readings in Southern Ontario and recently
completed his next book called A FLEETING GLIMPSE OF
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Play Writer / Director
/ Actor
Michael
Khashmanian
He will demonstrate a 'raw' play and demonstrate to
the audience how it all comes together.
Sure to catch everyone's interest. Sorry, Reality TV,
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Michael Khashmanian
Play writer & Director / Actor
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Michael Khashmanian has recently
rekindled his love of writing over the past year
completing a few short stories and poems. He has written
the lyrics for five songs, one of
which was performed by 'Rising' at St. Mark's United
Church in Dec. He has just completed the play "Dial 'M'
for Music" which was performed on Feb.2 2006.
He has written & directed and acted in May 2007, a
comedy play Where's the Minister?
with great reviews. Currently he is directing a play
plus is an actor in another one.
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Story Tellers
Back by Popular Demand
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Story
Teller / Singer / Songwriter & Musician
Love Voices in the Wind
Love is kind. Love is cruel. Love is real.
Heather and Kim will take your emotions to task
with a musical, poetic journey of story and song.
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Heather is a versatile singer/songwriter & storyteller who
brings both traditional tales and her own stories to life by
interspersing the narrative with rhyme, chant song and playing
the guitar.
She performs in schools, in concert, and conducts workshops
throughout the GTA and beyond, for children and adults. Her
interactive Multicultural storytelling and musical programs
are popular with children and families. Adult audiences
delight in her unique presentations of original contemporary,
folk and blues music with personal tales that are profound or
humourous. She especially enjoys performing her ‘Singin’ the
Blues’ in story concert to ‘grown-up’ audiences where she
invites other musicians to join her.
She does Musical Story & Song Theatre shows for adults, youth,
and older children and presents adult Halloween House
Concerts. Her Family Album: A Bit of This & That And a Snap,
Clap, Tap. A Collection of Stories and Songs (2 cd's) focuses
on literacy. I Eat Borscht, I Eat Kippers…is included in
Signatures, the Writer’s Circle of Durham Region’s first
anthology. Her newer albums are featured on her web site.
Although she has not won any concrete awards, she has won the
hearts of thousands of listeners in Canada and the US through
performances and regular sales of her tunes through online
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A musical
troubadour Kim plays both the ancient Celtic Harp traced over
one thousand years as well as the Lyon and Healy classical
Harp. She performs period music ranging from celtic to
classical, early music to renaissance and traditional to
contemporary, combining her talents on harp, and mandolin
performance blending her instruments and voice with song.
Kim appears
solo as well as duo with other performers in various
productions within the Greater Toronto Area and Ontario. She
collaborates “Musical Story and Song Theatre” with
singer/songwriter and storyteller Heather Whaley.
She has
worked as a background vocalist and mandolin musician for
studio sessions at Steve Sherman Productions, Toronto , Ont.
Kim played a
principal role as an actress/singer for the play called “The
Elfin Knight”, Cliffhanger Productions, and she orchestrated
all the vocals and harp music in this forty-five show
production at the historic Guild Inn Toronto Ont.
She writes
monthly articles about harp history for the “Folk Harp Society
Journal” where she is on the executive board, and publishes
articles and her own poetry in “Acoustic Café Magazine’.
She plays professionally for places such as Ontario
Renaissance Festivals, Durham Regional Arts, Studio and Garden
Tours, Toronto’s Casa Loma, Royal Ontario Museum, Early Music
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 Editor - Bonita Summers
Published by
view TV interview - video
Hidden Brook Press
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The Wisdom of Old Souls -
Anthology
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Wisdom of Old Souls has been
featured on
CHEX Channel 12 - Durham
during the hour interview with Stella Ducker,
Festival Producer,& Graham Ducker,
co-founder of the Stellar Literary Festival Sept
22 2008
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See TV interview with Publisher
and Editor
http://www.stellarliteraryfestival.com/hiddenbrookpress.htm
“The Wisdom of Old Souls” is a diverse collection
of short stories and poetry celebrating
grandmothers and honouring their personal
histories, aspirations, and accomplishments.
Readers will relate on many levels to these
timeless tales of women whose influence lives on
in the hearts of their children and grandchildren.
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Karen L. Cole, MC
Karen L. Cole is a retired
English and drama teacher whose career
spanned three
decades and three countries. Karen’s memoir
of her life in the convent, Lifting the
Veil, is awaiting publication. She is
currently writing a novel based on her years
in
Jamaica. Karen has also published a number
of articles on topics ranging from
gardening to literature, two of her
favourite pastimes.
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Bonita Summers,
Editor of Wisdom of Old Souls
Bonita Summers has recently
left her position as an administrator of
Queen’s
University to pursue the dual careers of
writer and Therapeutic Touch™
practitioner. She is the author of Woman
with the Flying Mind, an autobiographical
collection of poems, the sales of which
raised $1000 for Kingston
Interval House, a refuge for abused women
and children in Kingston.
Bonita’s poem, Belly Love, is awaiting
publication in an upcoming Canadian
Federation of Poets anthology on childbirth.
Currently, she is preparing her
next book, Digging Up the Bones, for Hidden
Brook Press’ North Shore
Series, and in the quiet hours of the night,
working on a novel.
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Karen L. Cole
Karen L. Cole is a retired
English and drama teacher whose career
spanned three
decades and three countries. Karen’s memoir
of her life in the convent, Lifting the
Veil, is awaiting publication. She is
currently writing a novel based on her years
in
Jamaica. Karen has also published a number
of articles on topics ranging from
gardening to literature, two of her
favourite pastimes.
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Ellen Curry
Married for 52 years,
Ellen and her husband have 2 sons and a
daughter, 7
grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren.
Ellen has published two children’s books,
a number of short stories in magazines,
newspapers, and anthologies, and a booklet
on aging. Her grandmother still walks beside
her.
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Ann Peacock
Ann Peacock is an Oshawa
resident who is pursuing her lifelong
interest in writing. She has a passion for
poetry. Her dream is to die at age 100 in
the middle of creating a poem. Ann would
like her epitaph to read, " An Artist with
Words".
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J. Graham Ducker
Mr. Ducker's is a published
author & poet. His latest publication is a
book of poetry, Observations of Heart and
Mind.
Mr. Ducker has had many poems and short
stories published in Canadian and
international magazines. A first prize
winner in the Lichen Arts and Letters
Preview ‘Writing Between The Lines’ Contest.
Graham Ducker read one of his two
submissions from his book Don’t Wake The
Teacher! and was presented the Mariposa
Writers' Group Certificate of Appreciation
for his Outstanding Contribution as a Summer
Reader.
His other reading for the Mariposa Writers'
Group Short Story Competition, was
presented as First Place winner for his
short story, Life in a Leaf at the Leacock
Museum during the Lake Country Literary
Lapses.
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Kathleen M. Martin
Kathleen expresses her
thoughts and feelings best through the
written word.
Kathleen’s published works
are Time of Trial: Beyond the Terror of
9/11,
Signatures, I Lost Me and The Bathhouse, in
print and as a reading on CBC.
Upon retirement, Kathleen took writing more
seriously. Winning a membership in
the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region
invested Kathleen with a wealth of
knowledge.
Over the past 8 years, she has served on the
Board; attended retreats; participated in
courses for Freefall Writing and met
regularly with other published authors.
Kathleen’s manuscript of fictional stories
entitled Keeping the Peace is now
complete. Kathleen believes she inherited
her granny’s most influential trait, that of
character building.
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Ruth Zaryski Jackson writes
memoir and is working on a book in an
on-line memoir writing class. A career in
research, teaching, and heritage planning
honed her writing skills. Now she digs and
sifts through layers of immigrant history
for treasures to illuminate her stories and
that of previous generations.
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Exhibitors & Displays
There will be displays and
exhibitors with their books
Books signings, photo and interviews opportunities
with speakers, performers, readers
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