Fat Oyster Reading Series – March 2016

Fat Oyster Reading Series – March 2016

Fat Oyster Reading Series will once again feature three fine writers on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 at the Fanny Bay Hall.

Patricia Young has published eleven collections of poetry and one of short fiction. Her poems have been widely anthologized and she has received a number of awards for her writing. Her most recent books include Summertime Swamp-Love (Palimpsest Press, 2014),Night-Eater (Quattro Books, 2012), and An Auto-erotic History of Swings (Sono Nis Press, 2010). She has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award twice and has twice received the Dorothy Livesay Book Prize. She has also won the Pat Lowther Award, a CBC Literary Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Award, two National Magazine Awards, the Great Blue Heron Contest and the Confederation Poet’s Prize. Her collection of short fiction, “Airstream,” (Biblioasis, 2006) won the Rooke-Metcalf Award, was shortlisted for the Butler Prize and named one of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of the Year. A twelfth collection of poetry, Shrunk Spun Broken, will be published with Biblioasis in spring, 2016. She recently won first prize in Prairie Fire’s fiction contest.

Terence Young is a teacher and co-founder of The Claremont Review, an international literary journal for young writers.  His first book of poetry, The Island in Winter (Signal Editions, 1999), was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award.  Since then, he has published a collection of stories, Rhymes With Useless (Raincoast, 2000), a novel, After Goodlake’s, which received the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2005, and a second collection of poetry, Moving Day (Signature Editions, 2006), which was nominated for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for 2006. A second collection of fiction, The End of the Ice Age, was released from Biblioasis Press in 2010.

Harold Macy was born on the prairie, caught between the stubble and endless sky. The mountains and the forest beckoned and he moved to the coast.  It has been his everlasting pleasure to live nearly forty years in the rural community of Merville, on Vancouver Island, a tectonic splinter off the left shoulder of a restless continent , where he is surrounded by old hippies, fundamentalist Christians, badly-aging cowgirls, loggers and urban refugees with their new plaid shirts and attitudes—all great sources of character and story.  He has studied writing with the UBC Mentorship Program, Victoria (BC) School of Writing, Sage Hills (SK) and North Island College. His first book was The Four Storey Forest: As Grow the Trees So Too The Heart (2011).   His work has appeared in PRISM International, Orion, Eye & I, Broken City, and others.

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