Rockcliffe Park Public School is holding it’s semi-annual Book Fair next weekend with thousands of books for sale. The Details: When: Friday, November 5th from 10am to 9pm Saturday, November 6th from 10am to 6pm Sunday, November 7th from 11am to 5pm Where: Rockcliffe Park Public School 370 Springfield Road Ottawa
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It’s that time of year again to put wit to words and pen to paper. Apartment 613′s second annual fall fiction contest is on! From now until Nov. 5th they are accepting submissions on any topic, 1,000 words max, that’s got some connection to the Ottawa area. As one of the judges for last year’s contest, I [...]
The fourth installment of the Ottawa Press Gang’s Letterpress Gazette arrived and it is great! The gazette, letterpressed in the old fashion style double sided foolscap, has articles on fine press work, grammar and the King’s Landing printing office along with printers’ poems, letpress quiz and a wonderful Halloween postcard. I must say I am deeply [...]
The fall edition of the Ottawa Writers Festival starts today (running Oct. 20-26th) and looks to have another great line-up of talks, panels, and events involving a number of outstanding authors. One event I am very excited to be attending is a talk being giving by William Gibson, one of my favourite authors who’s work I’ve continually enjoyed since reading Neuromancer in [...]
At the Small Press Fair on the weekend I managed to pick up a few copies of Apt. 9 Press’ new titles. After months of working on the material, Cameron Anstee has put together an excellent descriptive bibliography of local Ottawa poet William Hawkins’ published work dating all the way back to the 60s. Complete with reproduction broadside [...]
This video on How Ink is Made has been floating around the various letterpress and book arts groups around here and on the net, so thought it was about time I shared it too. Enjoy!
Once again the Ottawa Small Press Fair will be taking place at the Jack Purcell Community Centre this Saturday from 12-5pm. Unfortunately we will not be there with a booth this time, but I will certainly be there in person to see what the local small presses have been up to over the summer.
Had this fun little article called Confessions of a Used-book Salesman passed my way and got a bit of a kick reading it. It’s from the point of view of the new age book dealer that looks to focus primarily on books that can be scanned via PDA for immediate price comparison on Amazon then flipped as [...]
The St. Brigid’s Centre will be hosting a wonderful evening October 20th centred on the five fantastic female Irish writers who were touched by Ottawa native Helen Hansen’s story of stroke recovery through therapy based on writing. Her efforts came to the attention of Catherine Dunne, who invited Helen to Ireland and introduced her to fellow writers Celia De Freine, Ivy [...]
Well, first and foremost, apologies for the lengthy pause in posts but unfortunately Rogers somehow decided that my own website was seen as a threat to my IP address and therefore blocked my modem’s access to my own website. After a few calls with them, they still didn’t know how to undo it so I had [...]