Archived Events
Two Previous Years
Note: Dates and information were accurate at the time of the original meeting, but may no longer be accurate or available.
2009–10 Meetings & Workshops | 2010–11 Meetings & Workshops
2009–10 Meetings & Workshops
Meeting: Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Neil McKinnon — Award Winning Author
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Neil McKinnon will speak on: What is humour? How does humour work in fiction and in non-fiction?
Bio
Neil McKinnon was raised in Saskatchewan. He served in the RCN and has been a businessman, archaeologist, university lecturer, and freelance writer. He has worked in China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. and holds a BSc in Math and BA and MA in archaeology. He is an alumnus of the Writing with Style program at the Banff Centre.
His travel and business articles have appeared in Canadian, Japanese, and U.S. publications. In 1999 he won first prize in an International Writing Competition sponsored by the Canadian Author's Association in Toronto. The entry, “Xi'an to Lantian”, was published in a collection in January 2000. In 2002 he received third prize in the CAA's International Short Story Competition. The story, “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do,” was published in an anthology in 2003 and in 2004 it won El Ojo Del Lago's Best Fiction Award in Mexico. His book Tuckahoe Slidebottle was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Award for humour and for the Alberta Book Award for short fiction. He has served on literary juries and has also edited and published academically.
In July, 2001 he ran the Calgary Marathon and collected his first pension cheque. He and his wife Judy have been married for 43 years. They have two globe-trotting daughters, one brilliant 5 year-old grandson and one 4 month-old grandson, also brilliant. When not visiting their grandsons in Vancouver they live in Mexico.
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Meeting: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Shaena Lambert — Award Winning Author
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Shaena Lambert will discuss:
- 'Beginnings and Endings' for short stories and novels.
- How to discover the organic beginning and end within a piece of fiction.
- What makes a powerful opening?
- Should a story 'close' at the ending or open up into something new?
Bio
Shaena Lambert's novel, Radiance, was published in 2007 by Random House Canada and by Virago Press in the UK. It was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and New Zealand Star Herald, and was chosen as a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, The Ethel Wilson Prize, and The Evergreen Award.
Her book of short stories, The Falling Woman (2002), was published to critical acclaim in Canada, the UK and Germany. It was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed award and named a Globe and Mail best book. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines, including Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All-Story, Toronto Life, Image (Dublin), and The Journey Prize Anthology—a yearly anthology of best new Canadian stories. She lives in Vancouver. She is at work on a new novel and a collection of short stories.
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Meeting: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dr. Trevor Carolan — Award Winning Non-Fiction Author
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Dr. Trevor Carolan will speak on "The Deeper Loam" of writing: identifying the "Eight Essentials" of good writing; Cultivating the Creative Self; incorporating literature in our lives; finding our true subjects; the craft of writing; traditions and expectations; maintaining the active voice; self-editing and effective criticism; cross-overs—shifting from one genre to another; and understanding the role of an Editor
Bio
Born in Yorkshire, Trevor Carolan emigrated as a boy to British Columbia, Canada and was raised in the family building trade in New Westminster. He began writing for the city newspaper at age 17. After travelling Europe and India for three years he completed a M.A. in English at Humboldt State in California. He later worked with the 15th Olympic Winter Games in Calgary. As a writer he has published 14 books of creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, translation, memoir, and anthologies. Dr. Carolan has worked as media advocate on behalf of international human rights, refugees and famine relief, Canadian First Nation land claims, and Pacific Coast logging and watershed issues. He served three years as an elected municipal councillor for North Vancouver, then as a political columnist. In 2007 he received an Interdisciplinary PhD from Bond University in Queensland, Australia and now teaches English at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford near Vancouver.
His current work is entitled Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific (Cheng & Tsui, Boston). His other works include the novel The Pillow Book of Dr. Jazz (Ekstasis); Return to Stillness: Twenty Years With a Tai Chi Master (Marlowe, NY), for which he received a Spirituality & Health Best Books of the Year citation in 2003; and Celtic Highway, a collection of poetry (Ekstasis).
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Meeting: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Christmas Gathering
Our Christmas Lunch will be held starting at noon at:
- White Spot Restaurant
- 1616 West Georgia (at Cardero)
- Vancouver, BC | V6K 2V5
- p: 604.681.8034 | f: 604.681.0426
Cost: $18.00 for meal (a choice of 4 entrées — one vegetarian), a Caesar salad and tea/coffee/soft drink. Members are allowed to bring a guest. Space is limited.
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Meeting: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Gillian Shaw — Journalist
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Gillian Shaw will be the speak on social media and its importance to Canadian authors.
Gillian Shaw is a journalist with The Vancouver Sun and Canwest. She writes on Digital Life for the Sun and the Canwest news service, focusing on technology issues and trends online and off that affect our life, whether at work or play. Gillian can be found online at www.vancouversun.com/digitallife or through some of her social media links listed at krunchd.com/gillianshaw.
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Meeting: February, 13 2010
February's meeting is cancelled due to the Olympics.
Meeting: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Open Mic Night & Silent Auction Fund Raiser
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Open Mic Night
March 10th is our Open Mic Night. Come and hear what people have been writing. Each speaker will be given five minutes to read their poems, magazine articles, or excerpts from their books. Members will be given priority.
- To reserve your reading spot please contact Jean Kay.
Silent Auction Fund Raiser
We will also be having a Silent Auction at our meeting. Writing-related items and small donated items will be auctioned off. Come early and place your bids.
Available items range from a CanWrite! 2010 Registration (value: $325.00–$365.00; minimum bid: $200.00), writing services or related items to framed prints (see examples to right — click to see larger images), gift vouchers, or chocolates. All items will be displayed at the meeting, and bid sheets will be available at that time.
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Meeting: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Rebecca Wigod — Books Editor at The Vancouver Sun
Rebecca Wigod will talk about what she does as The Sun's books editor: what it involves, which books get covered (and why), how writers can get attention for their work and what could be done better.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Bio
Rebecca Wigod has been a print journalist for 30-plus years. She spent a fun year as a copy editor on the Australian edition of Vogue magazine. She's spent most of her career at the Times-Colonist in Victoria, where she wrote features, and The Sun (22 years), where she's done lots of things, including reporting on health issues. She's overseen the books pages for 10 years and has recently also been choosing and editing the letters to the editor.
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Meeting: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Daniel Kalla — International Bestselling Author
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Daniel Kalla will speak on living and managing the dual career of writing and medicine. He will also cover growing up in a medical "dynasty" — he's a third-generation physician — since his new novel touches on these issues.
Bio
Born, raised, and still residing in Vancouver, Kalla spends his days (and sometimes nights) working as an ER Physician in an urban teaching hospital.
The idea for his first medical thriller, Pandemic, sprang from his clinical experience in facing the SARS crisis of 2003. He has written five science thrillers and or medical mysteries, delving into themes and topics as diverse as superbugs, drug addiction, prions, DNA evidence, pandemics and patient abuse.
Kalla's sixth book, Of Flesh and Blood, is a departure from the medical thriller genre. Featuring two multi-generational families, a major West Coast medical center and interwoven storylines, he tackles the human condition through the loves, lives and struggles of characters connected by lineage and bound by family secrets.
His books have been translated into ten languages, and Pandemic and Resistance have been optioned for feature films.
Daniel received his MD from the University of British Columbia. He is married and the proud father of two girls in a home predominated by the XX chromosome (even his beloved Labrador retriever, Lola, is female).
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June 24–27, 2010 — Canwrite! Conference
The 89th Canwrite! Conference in Victoria
(hosted by Vancouver Branch).
June 24–27, 2010
Harbour Towers Hotel
Victoria, BC
Meetings: June, July & August
There are no meetings held during the summer months, although the Branch does hold a summer social gathering for members and their guests.
2010–11 Meetings & Workshops
Meeting: Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Jeff Young — Entertainment Lawyer
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Jeff Young will speak on Electronic Rights for Writers
Bio
Jeff Young received his Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia, where he also studied Commerce. He began his twenty-two year legal career in corporate and real estate law and ultimately focused on al law practice in intellectual property, new media, sports and entertainment. Jeff has spent the last two years as a legal consultant to the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, handling matters in his areas of expertise for the Cultural Olympiad, Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE), Whistler Medals Plaza, and the Paralympic Ceremonies. Other clients that have received his legal work include the OutTV Network, the Vancouver Whitecaps, Fox Family Channel and the Shaw Rocket Fund, as well as numerous independent filmmakers, producers, publishers, artists, writers, entertainers, new media companies and sports organizations.
As a post-secondary educator, Jeff has taught Film Law and New Media Law in the Faculty of Business, School of New Media at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and has been a guest lecturer at numerous events and private arts and entertainment colleges.
Website: www.jeffyounglegal.com
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Meeting: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Julie Salisbury — Founder and Facilitator InspireABook
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Bio
Author of A Seven Year Journey Around The World — Discovering My Passion and Purpose Julie dedicated 2 years of her life learning all about how to write a book and self-publish it. In the process she discovered a passion for writing and teaching others how to turn their writing into a book! InspireABook was born and now she helps writers to become authors! Be the author of your dreams!
Julie began that book odyssey on a sailboat, after realizing she needed to do something more with her life. And more she did do. Seven years later, after her travels took her around the world to 35 different countries, she learned all about sailing, many different cultures…and herself.
During the trip, she made promise to her grandmother that yes, she would publish a book of her world journeys. This book became the launch for the InspireABook system once she experienced first-hand the challenges faced by writers.
Website: inspireabook.com
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Meeting: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tim Taylor — Award Winning Fiction Author
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Tim Taylor will talk about writing the Blue Light Project: novel research, generating first drafts, dealing with editors and various other anecdotes. He'll also read from the manuscript.
Bio
Timothy Taylor published his first novel Stanley Park in 2001. It was an immediate bestseller and a critical success. He's since published a prize-winning collection of short fiction, Silent Cruise, and a second bestselling and critically acclaimed novel, Story House. He is the winner of the Journey Prize, and has been finalist or runner-up for six other major national fiction prizes in Canada, including the prestigious Giller Prize. His work has also been chosen as the 'One Book One City' selection for Vancouver and named a finalist for Canada Reads.
Taylor has also been widely published and recognized for his non-fiction magazine and newspaper work. He's presently the Big Ideas columnist for the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, and has been winner or finalist in a dozen separate magazine awards, including a recent bronze medal at the Folio: Eddie Magazine Awards in New York.
Taylor is a contributing editor at EnRoute Magazine and Vancouver Magazine. He has also written for Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Western Living, The Vancouver Review, Toro Magazine, Saturday Night, Adbusters, the National Post, the Vancouver Sun and many others.
Website: www.timothytaylor.ca
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Meeting: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Ian Weir — Award Winning Fiction Author
- Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Place: Muriel Anderson Library, #130 20338 65th Ave., Langley.
- Cost: free (Pre-registration is requested as seating is limited.)
Bio
Ian Weir is an award-winning Canadian playwright and screenwriter. His debut novel, Daniel O'Thunder, was published in 2009 by Douglas & McIntyre, and has been shortlisted for four awards: the Commonwealth Writers' Prize First Book Award, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the CAA Award for Fiction.
Born in North Carolina, he was raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, where he boldly told his piano teacher that he wanted to be a writer when he grew up. (Her reply: "Yes, that's a nice hobby. But what do you want to do for a living?") After working for several years as a newspaper reporter, he completed a BA in English at the University of B.C. and an MA in Medieval Literature at King's College, University of London. He wrote several radio plays for the BBC and CBC in the 1980s, before establishing himself as a stage playwright. His first full-length play, The Idler, premiered in Vancouver in 1987, winning a Jessie Award for Best New Play. He has since written more than a dozen other plays, among them Bloody Business, St. George and The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney.
Over the past fifteen years Ian has written extensively for television. He was writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed CBC miniseries Dragon Boys, a thriller set in the world of Asian organized crime on Canada's West Coast. Otherwise he has written more than 100 episodes for nearly two dozen series in Canada and the U.S. Awards include two Geminis, four Leos and a Writers' Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award.
Ian lives in Langley, British Columbia, with his wife Jude and their daughter Amy. He continues to think fondly of his old piano teacher.
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Meeting: Saturday, December 4, 2010
Christmas Gathering
Our Christmas Lunch will be held starting at noon at:
- White Spot Restaurant
- 1616 West Georgia (at Cardero)
- Vancouver, BC | V6K 2V5
- p: 604.681.8034 | f: 604.681.0426
Cost: $25.00 per person (a choice of 4 entrées) includes a Caesar salad to start and a coffee or tea or pop or juice, taxes and gratuity. Members are allowed to bring a guest. Space is limited.
The entrée choices:
- Tuscan Chicken Pasta (tender chicken breast, feta, mushrooms, bell peppers amarosa tomatoes and bow tie pasta simmered in a creamy tomato sauce served with garlic panni);
- Roast Turkey Dinner (served with seasonal vegetables, stuffing and mash potatoes);
- Fish and Chips (2 pieces of our cod done in a crispy batter served with fries and coleslaw); or
- Blackened Cajun Chicken (crusted with our pepper and herb blackening spice then char grilled to perfection, served with seasonal vegetables, mash potatoes, and sour cream cilantro)
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Meetings and Workshops from Prior Years
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Meeting: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Ian Weir — Award Winning Fiction Author
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Bio
Ian Weir is an award-winning Canadian playwright and screenwriter. His debut novel, Daniel O'Thunder, was published in 2009 by Douglas & McIntyre, and has been shortlisted for four awards: the Commonwealth Writers' Prize First Book Award, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the CAA Award for Fiction.
Born in North Carolina, he was raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, where he boldly told his piano teacher that he wanted to be a writer when he grew up. (Her reply: "Yes, that's a nice hobby. But what do you want to do for a living?") After working for several years as a newspaper reporter, he completed a BA in English at the University of B.C. and an MA in Medieval Literature at King's College, University of London. He wrote several radio plays for the BBC and CBC in the 1980s, before establishing himself as a stage playwright. His first full-length play, The Idler, premiered in Vancouver in 1987, winning a Jessie Award for Best New Play. He has since written more than a dozen other plays, among them Bloody Business, St. George and The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney.
Over the past fifteen years Ian has written extensively for television. He was writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed CBC miniseries Dragon Boys, a thriller set in the world of Asian organized crime on Canada's West Coast. Otherwise he has written more than 100 episodes for nearly two dozen series in Canada and the U.S. Awards include two Geminis, four Leos and a Writers' Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award.
Ian lives in Langley, British Columbia, with his wife Jude and their daughter Amy. He continues to think fondly of his old piano teacher.
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Meeting: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Open Mic Night
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Members and non member can take a turn reading their work to the group. A great way to build your professional platform; reading to an audience gives you an opportunity to get the reactions from your readers. Feel free to read published, ready to publish, or first draft work. If you want to sign up for a 5 minute slot, and we'll add your name to the list.
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Meeting: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Ed Griffin
The hero's journey is a great tool for writers. Developed by the expert in mythology, Joseph Campbell, this method helps writers see their way through the difficulties of plot. It's really all about good storytelling. Griffin will go through the steps of the hero's journey and give examples.
Griffin has used this method and other writing tools in his class at Matsqui prison. He has taught in prison for twenty-three years and is a firm believer in the arts for rehabilitation. Unfortunately, our prisons pay very little attention to the arts. He has brought area writers into prison to meet and work with inmate writers.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Bio
Ed Griffin teaches creative writing at Matsqui Prison, a medium security prison in Western Canada. He taught the same subject at Waupun prison, a maximum security prison in Wisconsin.
He began his professional life in 1962 as a Roman Catholic priest in Cleveland, Ohio. There he became active in the civil rights movement and marched in Selma with Doctor Martin Luther King. Removed from a suburban parish for his activities, he served for three years in Cleveland's central city.
After leaving the priesthood in 1968 he earned a masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was elected to Milwaukee's city council in 1972.
Griffin and his wife, Kathy, opened a commercial greenhouse in suburban Milwaukee in 1976. They lived where they worked and shared the joys of raising children and growing flowers. In 1988 the family, Ed and Kathy, Kevin and Kerry, moved to British Columbia, Canada, where Griffin helped establish a dynamic writing community in the city of Surrey. He is the founder of Western Canada's largest writer's conference, the Surrey International Writers' Conference.
He has published poetry, plays, short stories and a newspaper column. His writing has won several awards and the American Humanist Society has honored him as the teacher of a prize-winning inmate writer. Griffin believes that all the arts, including writing, should be encouraged in prison. As Aristotle said, "art releases unconscious tensions and purges the soul."
His next book, Once a Priest, is a themed autobiography, showing that you can take a man out of the priesthood, but you can't take the priesthood out of the man. The book will be out early this year.
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Meeting: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Shelley Harrison Rae
In honour of National Poetry month, Shelley will present an Introduction to Short Form Poetry focusing on the Haiku. Practice evocative ways of showing, not telling, using just a few words. Come prepared to write!
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Bio
Shelley Harrison Rae studied writing and editing at Simon Fraser University and Counseling Skills at Vancouver Community College. She shares her joy of writing through her Wordlink Workshops, as an annual guest presenter at the Rancho La Puerta Spa in Tecate, Mexico and The Surrey International Writers Conference.
She works with writers of all levels and her passion is people and their stories. She grew up in Vancouver and now makes her home in Sandy Hook on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia where she teaches at The Wordlink Lounge, the Rockwood Centre, and Capilano University, Sechelt Campus.
Shelley is an award-winning writer, poetry judge, Director of Coast Cultural Alliance, Past President of North Shore Writers' Assoc. and Producer of Dare to Be Heard. She works as a journalist, manuscript coach, grant writer and speaker. Her book Life Leaves Stains was published in 2008.
In her heart she is a poet.
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Meeting: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Patrick Taylor
The importance of setting.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
- Place: Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe St., Vancouver.
- Cost: CAA Members free; Non-members $5; Students (with student ID) $2
Bio
Patrick Taylor was born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland. He pursued a career in medical research, emigrating to Canada in 1970 and retiring in 2001 as Professor Emeritus the University of Brtish Columbia.
He has written fiction since winning the Campbellian Prize for Literature when he was sixteen, a career badly interfered with by the need to publish scientific papers (100+) and textbooks (6).
He returned to writing fiction with the publication of Only Wounded in 1997. Two thrillers followed. Most recently he has been working on The Irish Country Doctor series.
September, October, November 2010, and January 2011 were satisfying months for him. In Early November he finished book 6 in the series A Dublin Student Doctor for Forge books of New York. It will be published in October 2011.
The fifth book in this Irish Country series, An Irish Country Courtship, was published by Forge in September. By October it had made the Quill and Quire Canadian hard back fiction best seller list. Re-releases of Country Doctor, a New York Times best seller in hard back and trade paper and Country Christmas, in trade paper have become Globe and Mail Canadian fiction best sellers again.
The first edition mass market paper Irish Country Christmas released Nov 4th was #86 on USA Today's all books published in America and #17 on the New York Times mass market paper fiction lists. It reached #3 in the Globe and Mail Canadian authors fiction. It was #19 on Barnes and Noble paperback fiction top 20 and #14 on the Publishers Weekly list for 11/29.
Country Girl re-released in trade paper in January was a Globe and Mail best seller.
An Irish Country Doctor will be read on Wisconsin Public Radio's "A Chapter a Day" in the fall of 2011 and produced as play by the drama department of the University of Edmonton.
Patrick spent three recent years back in Ireland, but returned to Canada in May 2010 and now lives on Saltspring Island with his partner, award-winning oil painter Dorothy Tinman.
Despite all his amazingly good luck with his writing Patrick wishes to reassure all his friends, who he hopes will visit him on Saltspring, that when answering the door his head still fits through the frame. He hopes his news will serve as encouragement for all our members who must keep telling themselves, "If he can do it, so can I."
Website: www.patricktaylor.ca. Facebook: Irish Country Books
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Meetings: June, July & August
There are no meetings held during the summer months, although the Branch does hold a summer social gathering for members and their guests.
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