Maria Scala talks about two Chaudiere titles,

Monty Reid's Disappointment Island and Anne Le Dressay's Old Winter on her blog.

John Lavery at Max Middle's A B Series

The A B Series begins 2008 with a performance by celebrated writer John Lavery. The Series is delighted to announce that there are to be musical & literary dimensions to Lavery's performance on January 17th. The evening begins with a reading by Josh Massey. Hosted by Max Middle.

John Lavery & Josh Massey
The A B Series #3

7:30pm
Thursday, 17 January, 2008

Art Gallery
Ottawa City Hall
Main Floor
110 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario

Free admission
A hat will be passed.

There will be a book table.

for more information:
contact Max Middle
maxmiddle@gmail.com
telephone: 613.859.8423

or refer to: http://theabseries.blogspot.com/

JOHN LAVERY's [see his 12 or 20 interview here] Very Good Butter (ECW, 2000) was a Hugh MacLennan prize finalist. His most recent collection You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off (ECW, 2004) deals with crimes that remain unsolved. Some are unpleasant and brutal, some of doubtful importance, others might even be considered useful. But most are ambiguous, difficult to reconstruct, and the result of misunderstandings or miscommunication. His stories have appeared in This Magazine, The Canadian Forum, The Ottawa Citizen, and The London Spectator. Lavery's work appears in the anthologies Coming Attractions (Oberon, 1999), The Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland & Stewart, 2000) and Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers (Chaudiere Books, 2006). He won the Quebec English Language Writers Federation contest and twice won the New Brunswick Writers Federation contest; he has twice been runner-up in the annual Prism International contest. Since sometime in 2007, Lavery has been collaborating with Max Middle to produce duo performances as the Max Middle Sound Project. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec where he is writing his first novel. He also writes songs and plays guitar.

JOSH MASSEY grew up in Ottawa, spent 5 years in Montreal schooling and working, now divides his time between the capital where he writes, and northern BC where he works as a forestry technician. A tiny percentage of his poetry and prose has hitherto been published in journals like The Cap Review, Event, The Antigonish Review, Grain, Matrix, and forthcoming in Open Letter. Last year he completed Heard of Poets along with Ben Walker, a documentary about poetry in Ottawa which premiered at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last Spring.

some Chaudiere Books author (etc) activity:

John-James Ford: Galle Sri Lanka January 18-19, 2008. Will be reading Friday 18 January, mainly from long poem "Epiphany Season" (not yet published). Conducting a children's workshop Saturday 19th dealing with opening subconscious to the creative process through archetypes. Copies of first novel Bonk on the Head as well as copies of Decalogue 2 will be on sale at the Galle Festival BookFair.

http://www.galleliteraryfestival.com/
http://www.galleliteraryfestival.com/authors.htm

rob mclennan: not only reading/hosting The Peter F. Yacht Club Ottawa launch/Christmas party with various other authors, but hosting the first in a series of monthly readings in Edmonton on Tuesday, January 15; also launching (remotely) the fourth issue of ottawater as part of the (Ottawa) Factory Reading Series on Thursday, January 24, hosted lovingly by Stephen Brockwell.

Anne Le Dressay on Shawna Lemay's blog

Edmonton poet and blogger Shawna Lemay recently mentioned Anne Le Dressay's new book on her capricious hold-all blog.

some Chaudiere Books author activity

Here are some reports (from Amanda Earl and Pearl Pirie) on Monty Reid's recent Dusty Owl Reading Series feature, and note that Matrix magazine is posting reviews on-line, including Jesse Ferguson's review of Nicholas Lea's first collection. Also, Chaudiere Books editor/publisher launches his first novel in Ottawa tomorrow night at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

Chaudiere Books website

If you are wondering why there are problems on the Chaudiere Books website, it is going through a minor revision (i.e. I'm learning software to fix it because it was very out of date). I apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone. It should be up running again with pretty new pictures by later in the day on Sunday....
--Jennifer