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LLOYD MEEKER has just been accepted to James N. Frey's (How to Write a Damn Good Novel I and II) week-long workshop in San Jose in July.

From West Coast Writers (Spring 2008)

ANTHONY DALTON has been travelling in Alberta and Manitoba to promote his latest book, Alone Against the Arctic, the story of his near-fatal expedition around the Arctic coast of Alaska in Audacity, his small speedboat. In February he was a guest speaker at two separate teachers' conventions in Calgary, and he read from Alone at the Millenium Library in Winnipeg. In March he will be speaking at a series of Sail & Power Squadron meetings in BC as well as promoting his books at the 2nd annual Pacific Festival of the Book–held in Victoria. He will also be in attendance at Black Bond Books' author's day in Richmond. In April he is scheduled to participate in the one-day Surrey Reads & Writes event.

BONNIE FOURNIER, a Registered Psychiatric Nurse, shares her experiences covering 28 years of Forensic Nursing in the Court Holding Cells and 8 years of Nursing on the streets of the Downtown Eastside in Mugged, Drugged and Shrugged Off. The book will be published this summer.

Congratulations to Jan Furst who celebrated his 95th birthday in January.

GAVIN HAINSWORTH and co-author Katherine Freund-Hainsworth have recently completed their 66th book event of authors' signing and displays for A New Westminster Album: Glimpses of the City as it Was, and are continuing to work on their second book.

SANDRA HARPER's children's novel, Breaking Out, tells the story of Whycliffe, a twelve-year-old boy living in rural Kenya. Of the six children in the family, Whycliffe is the only one to attend school. Serious challenges face him. Money is needed for him to go to secondary school and for his sister's wedding. His mother is ill with the thinning disease. Through determination and assistance from surprising sources, Whycliffe goes on a personal journey that has a series of hurdles and surprising conclusions.

Breaking Out encourages young people to experience the wondrous African culture of Kenya. The book is part of a Kenya: Our Global Friend teacher resource kit, developed by Sandra Harper, Alice Tiles, Maureen MacDonald and Anne Low. The development and implementation of this resource kit was assisted by a generous CIDA. grant. Kenya: Our Global Friend will be available to schools across British Columbia.

JEAN KAY's poem "Prayer for Peace" was published in the Healing Journal which has 125,000 readers. Jean created 240 laminated bookmarks of a poem she wrote about the Natural Comfort Wellness Centre for them to distribute through Welcome Wagon. It is the most profitable single poem of hers to date. Three of Jean's poems were submitted to the Tsawwassen Artists Guild, and used by artists to create pictures. Commissioned poems continue to be a source of revenue for Jean.

BERNICE LEVER had 4 poems accepted by The Pen Explosion Newsletter, January 2008, in Pittsburg, US; 2 poems by Ink, Sweat & Tears online on March 07, on their site, Denton, UK; and 1 poem by Aspect Aspirations, Nanaimo, BC. She read poems as a Lifetime Achievement Award winner on February 29, at the World Poetry 7th Anniversary and Gala held at the Vancouver Public Library; On March 27 she will present a workshop talk, Know When to Break the Rules for Victoria CAA branch; March 28, a poetry reading at Black Stilt Cafe in Victoria; March 30, a poem on a painting for South Delta Poets & Painters show; May 13, a reading for Poets Potpourri Society in Abbotsford, and a workshop/reading on June 2, for the Montreal CAA branch.

Congratulations to BERNICE LEVER and BARBARA MUMFORD. Bernice was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for her poetry and writing achievements at the World Poetry 7th Anniversary and Gala on February 29, while Barbara won the Unsung Hero award for helping other writers.

GORDON MUMFORD exhibited and sold books at the Vancouver International Boat Show in February. His fifth book, Dangerous Waters, was published March 1. On Tuesday, March 11, he was interviewed on Coop Radio (102.7 FM, www.coopradio.org) at 9:00 p.m. PST. On March 22, he will be at Black Bond Bookstore at the Lansdowne Mall in Richmond BC. On Thursday, April 24, he is a featured reader at the Heritage Grill in New Westminster.

One of BEN NUTTALL-SMITH's poems will be included in the South Delta Poets & Painters show opening on Saturday March 29. Ben's current project, a work-in-progress, is an historical novel about tenth-century North America. His new book of poems, Splashes of Light contains material from travels in Cornwall and Turkey as well as an assortment of humorous and more serious selections.

BC member PATRICK TAYLOR, presently living in Ireland, has just released his new novel An Irish Country Village (Forge Books, NY, NY) in hard cover and as an audio book (Macmillan audio). At the same time An Irish Country Doctor was re-released in trade paper. As of March 2 it is number 22 on the NY Times trade paper best seller list, and has just hit the USA Today best seller list. In addition to being reprinted in Spanish, German and Dutch this book will be condensed by Readers Digest in English, Swedish, Russian, Czech, and Finnish. The third book in the series, An Irish Country Christmas, is due for release in November 2008.

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Updated: April 10, 2008