Room Service
Saturday, November 5th
Waldorf Hotel room # 115 & 117
8:00 – 8:30 Elizabeth Bachinsky
8:30 – 8:45 break
8:45 – 9:15 Daniel Zomparelli
9:15 – 9:30 break
9:30 – 10:00 Jenn Farrell
Cultural agitator, provocateur and perennial Eastvan denizen, Billeh Nickerson, has programed a lively literary line-up for a the hotel rooms at the Waldorf. Not quite bedtime stories but they may be in bed – possible special appearances by sleepwear.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of three collections of poetry, Curio (BookThug, 2005), Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood, 2006), and God of Missed Connections (Nightwood, 2009). Her work was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2006, the Kobzar Literary Award in 2009, the Pat Lowther Award in 2010, and the Bronwen Wallace Award in 2004. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and on film in Canada, the United States, France, Ireland, England, and China. She is an instructor of creative writing at Douglas College in New Westminster where she is Poetry Editor for Event magazine. elizabethbachinsky.blogspot.com
Jenn Farrell is the author of two collections of short stories: The Devil You Know (Anvil Press, 2010), and Sugar Bush & Other Stories (Anvil Press, 2006).Her stories have previously appeared in Prism, subTerrain, West Coast Line and Forget magazine. She is the two-time winner of the Vancouver Courier Fiction Contest, recipient of the 2002 Maclean-Hunter Endowment Prize for non-fiction, a former contributor to CBC Radio and former managing editor of subTerrain magazine. She is a board member of the B.C. Association of Magazine Publishers.
Billeh Nickerson is a writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate who divides his year between Toronto and Vancouver. He is the author of The Asthmatic Glassblower, Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow, and his most recent collection, McPoems. He is also the co-editor of Seminal: the Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, and a former editor of PRISM international and Event, two of Canada’s most respected literary journals. He has performed at hundreds of readings and festivals across Canada and the U.S, and, in 2008, served as Queen’s University’s Writer in Residence. He teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Daniel Zomparelli is the editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine. He writes and works with magazines across Vancouver including Geist, Megaphone Magazine, Sad Mag, Granville Online and formerly Adbusters. His first book of poems Davie Street Translations is forthcoming from Talonbooks.