melting point : the chaudiere books transition,

Ottawa literary publisher Chaudiere Books announces with deeply mixed feelings that the wonderful Invisible Publishing has now taken over our backlist.

Join us on February 15^th, 2019 for one last Chaudiere Books event and celebrate this transition as our books find their second home with Invisible. With readings by:

Anita Dolman

Amanda Earl

Jennifer Londry

rob mclennan

Pearl Pirie

Monty Reid

and Chris Turnbull

lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books co-publisher rob mclennan

with appearances by co-publisher Christine McNair and Invisible Publishing’s Leigh Nash

Friday, February 15, 2019

7pm door / 7:30pm reading

Vimy Brewing Company

145 Loretta Ave N #1, Ottawa, ON

http://www.vimybrewing.ca/

Originally co-founded in 2006 by rob mclennan and Jennifer Mulligan, the press published two dozen books over a ten year period. Christine McNair took over from Jennifer Mulligan as co-publisher in 2012.

A literary press focusing on poetry and literary fiction, Chaudiere Books produced first trade collections by Amanda Earl, Pearl Pirie, Marcus McCann, Chris Turnbull, Meghan Jackson, Roland Prevost, Clare Latremouille and N.W. Lea. The press also published more established writers with trade collections by  Monty Reid, Anne Le Dressay, Michael Bryson, Joe Blades, Andy Weaver and Jennifer Londry. Chaudiere also produced important collected editions by John Newlove and William Hawkins, as well as several anthologies focusing on such varied topics as Calgary experimental writing, Ottawa poets, Ottawa fiction writers and the above/ground press twentieth anniversary. Throughout the press’ ten year history, important editorial contributions were made by other writers to our books. This includes Anita Dolman, Carmel Purkis, Robert McTavish, Cameron Anstee, derek beaulieu, and Sandra Ridley.

Several titles by Chaudiere Books were shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the City of Ottawa Book Award, and the Archibald Lampman Poetry award. Monty Reid’s Disappointment Island won the Archibald Lampman award in 2007.

We were lucky to have support from the Ottawa International Writers Festival throughout our history and the warm support of the Ottawa literary community. We are sorry to see this chapter end but are delighted that Invisible can take these these books forward.

two upcoming Kingston readings by Jennifer Londry

Chaudiere author Jennifer Londry reads on Saturday, June 30th at 5pm as part of Kingston's ARTFEST, as well as Tuesday, July 3rd at Novel Idea, alongside Jeanette Lynes, Elizabeth Greene and Bruce Kauffman.

Amanda Earl at IFOA @ Harbourfront Centre, October 21: 2pm + 4pm

Chaudiere author Amanda Earl has two events at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto on October 21!
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5J 2G8

Events Amanda Earl will be involved in:

In Conversation: Chantel Acevedo & Amanda Earl
October 21 2017 - 2:00 PM

Chantel Acevedo and Amanda Earl discuss the stories of resilient and free-spirited women with Susan G. Cole.
Poetic New Worlds
October 21 2017 - 4:00 PM

Spend an afternoon with poetry and discover new worlds.

more information, as well as on tickets, here: http://ifoa.org/participants/amanda-earl

Amanda Earl reads at Poetry NOW: 9th annual Battle of the Bards! March 29,

Chaudiere Books author Amanda Earl reads as part of the 9th annual Battle of the Bards!

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 7:30 PM
Poetry NOW: IFOA Weekly
Brigantine Room
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $10, Free for Supporters & Students
1 stage. 20 poets. 1 winner.

Our popular poetry competition returns in 2017 to feature readings by 20 of Canada’s emerging and established poets.

IFOA Director Geoffrey E. Taylor, Juno award winning recording artist and dub poet Lillian Allen and 2016 Poetry NOW winner Chris Chambers will select the night’s winner. NOW Magazine’s Susan G. Cole will host.

Winner will receive an automatic invitation to read at the 38th edition of the International Festival of Authors AND an ad for their book and IFOA event in NOW Magazine!

Poetry NOW is presented in partnership with NOW Magazine.

For ticket information, and author bios, check out the link:
http://ifoa.org/events/poetry-now-9th-annual-battle-bards

Other participating readers include: Majlinda Bashllari, Susie Berg, Ronna Bloom, Susan G. Cole, Glen Downie, David B. Goldstein, Julie Cameron Gray, Jill Jorgenson, Patricia Keeney, Jennifer LoveGrove, Owain Nicholson, John Nyman,Chris Pannell, Marilyn Potter, Nicholas Power, Concetta Principe, Lisa Richter, Stuart Ross, Kilby Smith-McGregor and Dane Swan.

Amanda Earl in Toronto and Windsor!

Amanda Earl has posted information on two upcoming readings she's doing, including as part of the Canthius third issue launch in Toronto, and in Windsor at Biblioasis!

rob mclennan & Stephen Brockwell in Vancouver: January 18, 2017

rob mclennan & Stephen Brockwell read in Vancouver at Lunch Poems at SFU

Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique vibrant exchange of poetic ideas and cadence held the third Wednesday of every month, noon to 1 pm, in the Teck Gallery at Simon Fraser University's Harbour Centre Campus.

Calgary launch / THE CALGARY RENAISSANCE - December 2nd 7pm at pages Books!

Help celebrate the publication of THE CALGARY RENAISSANCE!

December 2nd 7:00pm at Pages Books!

Featuring readings by

HOLLIE ADAMS, CHRISTIAN BOK, WEYMAN CHAN, AARON GIOVANNONE, HELEN HAJNOCZKY, NAOMI K. LEWIS, JANI KRULC, NIKKI SHEPPY, NATALIE SIMPSON, EMILY URSULIAK and ANDREW WEDDERBURN

Edited by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan, and published by Ottawa’s Chaudiere Books, The Calgary Renaissance highlights some of the diverse and astonishing experimental poetry and fiction that has emerged out of the past two decades of Calgary writing. An essential portrait of some of the most engaged and radical of Canadian writing and writers from one of the country’s most important literary centres.

Contributors include: Hollie Adams, Jonathan Ball, Braydon Beaulieu, Christian Bök, Louis Cabri, Natalee Caple, Weyman Chan, Jason Christie, Chris Ewart, Aaron Giovannone, Helen Hajnoczky, Susan Holbrook, Ken Hunt, Jani Krulc, Larissa Lai, Naomi K. Lewis, Nicole Markotic, Suzette Mayr, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Sandy Pool, Sharanpal Ruprai, Ian Sampson, Jordan Scott, Nikki Sheppy, Natalie Simpson, Emily Ursuliak, Natalie Zina Walschots, Andrew Wedderburn, Julia Williams, Rita Wong, Eric Zboya, and Paul Zits.

Introduction by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan. Cover by Natalie Lauchlan and Nathaniel Mah. Designed by Christine McNair and Cameron Anstee.

More information on the book (including interviews and media) here: https://derekbeaulieu.wordpress.com/edited/

Amanda Earl reads at the RailRoad Reading Series, November 6

Chaudiere Books author Amanda Earl reads as part of Ottawa's RailRoad Reading Series on November 6, 2016, alongside Suzanna Derewicz, J.C. Sulzenko and Carol Stephen, launching their collaborative Slant of Light. For more information, check out the facebook event page here. And of course, copies of Earl's Kiki (2014) can be ordered directly, here.

rob mclennan at The Resonance Reading Series, October 4, 2016 (Montreal QC

rob mclennan reads at The Resonance Reading Series in Montreal on October 4 as part of a stellar line-up of poetry and prose. rob reads with Joni Murphy, Sandra Ridley, Joseph Denham, Owain Peach Nicholson and Kasia Juno.

Resonance Café
5175A Ave du Parc, Montreal, Quebec H2V 4G3
9-11:30pm
For more information, check out the Facebook link here.

Arc Poetry Magazine presents Ottawa Poetry Awards Reading

Each year, Arc Poetry Magazine is proud to honour Ottawa poets. We are pleased to present  finalists for the Archibald Lampman Award for the outstanding book of poetry published in 2015 by a National-Capital area author.   Also featured are winners of the Diana Brebner Prize competition, which honours emerging poets in the Ottawa area. 

The readings will take place at Pressed, 750 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa, Ontario at 7:00pm on Tuesday, October 4 [Nicholas Lea will not be in attendance].

The award is named in honour of Archibald Lampman (1861 – 1899), one of Canada’s finest nineteenth-century poets. Lampman moved to Ottawa in 1882, and much of his metaphysical nature poetry was inspired by the National Capital region.

The Archibald Lampman Award will be presented on October 19, at Ottawa City Hall, in conjunction with the Ottawa Book Awards. Congratulations to the finalists and their publishers!  Arc would also like to thank judges Liz Howard, Shane Book and Sachiko Murakami.

 The Lampman finalists are: 

David Groulx   Wabigoon River Poems  (Kegodonce Press, Neyaashiinigmiing, 2015)

A ferocious, erudite collection centred around an unflinching epic poem, breathtaking in its wide-ranging look at oppression, revolution, and survival. 

Nicholas Lea, Understander  (Chaudiere Books. Ottawa, 2015)

A brilliant book of compact lyrics, where themes of alienation and fragility meet dark humour and hope. 

Pearl Pirie, the pet radish, shrunken: (BookThug, Toronto, 2015)

Pirie rubs words until they spark and fume, turning the common into an uncommon blaze. Every line is joyful in its eccentricities, and eminently re-readable as it tumbles through language.

The event will also feature the finalists for the Diana Brebner Prize, given for a poem by an emerging Ottawa-area poet not yet published in book form.   The 2015 winner of the Brebner Prize is Claire Farley for her poem ‘NU’. Farley lives and works in Ottawa where she is the co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal Canthius.  The Brebner Honourable Mention went to Susan J. Atkinson, whose poems have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and Canada. She was named one of the Hot Ottawa Voices by the Tree Reading Series. 

For further information contact Arc Poetry Magazine at arc@arcpoetry.ca.

Framework 2016 : Monty Reid, Pearl Pirie, etc.

Framework: Words on the Land is proud to announce its 2016 roster of writers:

Natale Ghent, Katherine Graham, John K. Grande, Helen Humphreys, Jonathan Kaplansky,  Monty Reid, Sandra Ridley, John Steffler, Alissa York, and  Pearl Pirie.
 
This summer, over the course of a late August weekend, ten writers will find themselves in the forest at Fieldwork near Perth, Ontario.

These writers will be presented with a simple wooden frame installed at their site - intended to suggest rather than proscribe perspective. For some, their frames may briefly supplant the computer screen as a form of illumination.  For others, the frame may provide a welcome focal point or a springboard for inspiration.

What they write from their designated sites will be read to a public audience from the intimate loft-space of a barn at Fieldwork on Sunday, August 21st at 3pm. 

Framework 2015 – our inaugural event - was by all accounts a resounding pleasure for both writers and audience members. Not a single intrepid writer came screaming out of the woods.  One writer even set up a bush cocktail bar at his site and wrote about it.  The public reading and discussion was captivating.  The writing was first class. Authors sold books. The weather was glorious. Framework now has a reputation to live up to.

Join ten writers this August 21 as they read from their weekend’s creative output and reflect on the experience of writing on the land.    

Tickets are limited and only available in advance through the OIWF. So be sure to purchase them early!
Fieldwork is very pleased to be presenting this event once again in partnership with the Ottawa International Writers Festival.

Since 2008 Fieldwork has presented unique site-responsive art installations in and around a farm field and forest. Both established and emerging visual artists have been featured.  Fieldwork endeavors to cultivate connections between people, art and nature and to encourage a wide-ranging pursuit of artistic expression that is rooted in the land.   Framework: Words on the Land is Fieldwork's first offspring and was designed to lure literature into the creative mix of their programs.

For further information on the project, and for ticket availability/purchase, click here.

 

Jennifer Londry at Kingston's Artfest, July 2, 2016

Chaudiere author Jennifer Londry performs on Saturday, July 2, 2016 as part of "Poets at Artfest II" at Kingston, Ontario's Artfest, which runs from July 1 to 3. And of course, copies of her Tatterdemalion (2015) is still very much available, here. For more information on Artfest, check out the Facebook event page, here.

Andy Weaver and Phoebe Tsang at the Boneshaker Reading Series, Toronto

Chaudiere Books author Andy Weaver (author of this) reads with Phoebe Tsang as part of Lillian Necakov's Boneshaker Reading Series, Tuesday, April 12th, 2016 at 1748 St. Clair Ave. W. (St. Clair/Silverthorn Branch of the Toronto Public Library). The reading is free, and begins at 7:00 pm. See the facebook invitation here.

VERSeFest Hall of Honour Inductees Announced: rob mclennan and Andrée Lacelle

Chaudiere Books co-publisher, editor and author rob mclennan has been announced as one of this year's two 2016 VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour inductees! He will be reading this coming Sunday at VERSeFest as part of the event.

mclennan is the third Chaudiere Books author inducted, after William Hawkins (2013) and Amanda Earl (2014).

His most recent Chaudiere Books title is The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (2014). He will be releasing a limited-edition poetry chapbook, King Kong, for Sunday's ceremony and reading.

As the press release reads:

Ottawa, ON – Mar. 18, 2016 – VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, is pleased to announce this year’s inductees to the Hall of Honour, rob mclennan and Andrée Lacelle, for outstanding service to the Ottawa-Gatineau poetry community.

mclennan and Lacelle will be inducted into the Hall of Honour 7:00 P.M., Sunday, March 20th. The ceremony will also include readings by Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke and Governor General Award winner Robyn Sarah.

For three decades, rob mclennan has been at the forefront of promoting poetry in the city of Ottawa. His literary productivity has been outstanding, with over two dozen trade books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has demonstrated tireless community leadership in his activities as the founder of the Ottawa small press book fair, the organizer of the factory reading series, and the editor and founder of Chaudiere Books, ottawater, The Peter F. Yacht Club, and above/ground press. All of these activities, alongside the generosity of his mentorship and his editorial flair, have helped to shape the creative ethos of this city.

Born in Hawkesbury, Andrée Lacelle has published a dozen books and received numerous literary accolades. She was the first to receive the French-language Trillium Book Award for Tant de vie s’égare (Éditions du Vermillon, 1994 [2007]) and she has also been shortlisted for the Governor General Award. Instrumental to the promotion of French-language literature, she has been a long-time contributor of book reviews. She has also reviewed Franco-Ontarian literature on the show “Panorama” (TFO, 2006-2010) and on her radio program “Au cœur des mots” (2011-2014). Her literary collaborations recently included co-writing and co-editing pas d’ici, pas d’ailleurs, Anthologie poétique de voix féminines contemporaines (Montélimar, Voix d’encre, 2012). Her poems have been translated into English and Czech.

The VERSeFest Hall of Honour recognizes established poets from the greater Ottawa-Gatineau region who have produced a substantial body of work and have made a significant contribution in building the poetry community as a leader and mentor.

VENUE AND TICKETS
Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. Tickets are $10 per event, $20 for a weekend day pass, or $50 for a festival pass. Available online or at the door. For more information, visit versefest.ca

Andy Weaver competes in the 2016 Battle of the Bards

Poetry NOW: 8th annual Battle of the Bards

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 7:30 PM   
Special Event: IFOA Weekly   
Brigantine Room
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $10/FREE supporters, students & youth 25 and under
http://ifoa.org/events/poetry-now-8th-annual-battle-of-the-bards

1 stage. 20 poets. 1 winner.

Our popular poetry competition returns in 2016 to feature readings by 20 of Canada’s upcoming and established poets. Judges Geoffrey E. Taylor (IFOA’s Director), Jen Tindall (IFOA’s Artistic Associate) and Andy McGuire (winner of 2015 IFOA Poetry Games) will select one winner, who will receive an automatic invitation to read at the 37th edition of the International Festival of Authors AND an ad for their book in NOW Magazine!

The event will be hosted by NOW’s Susan G. Cole.

Poetry NOW is presented in partnership with NOW Magazine.

2016 Participants

Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Lara Bozabalian, Chris Chambers, Warren Clements, Michael Fraser, Marty Gervais, Susan Glickman, Maureen Hynes, James Lindsay, Shannon Maguire, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Sarah Pinder, Ruth Roach Pierson, Vanessa Shields, Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Blair Trewartha, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, Andy Weaver and Bänoo Zan.

Monty Reid w/ Vivian Vavassis + Sneha Madhavan-Reese at The Railroad Reading Series, February 7, 2016; Ottawa

a video of William Hawkins' recent reading/launch at The Manx Pub,

Joseph Hickey was good enough to record Ottawa poet William Hawkins' reading from this past weekend, where he performed as part of the big Chaudiere Books fall poetry launch. Thanks to all who came out to support our three fall poetry titles (Weaver, Londry, Turnbull) and Hawkins, who wasn't able to participate in a launch this past spring (and you know about tonight's Toronto launch, right? Hawkins won't be able to attend, but the other three will be reading a selection of his poems alongside their own) And of course, copies of The Collected Poems of William Hawkins, ed. Cameron Anstee (2015) are still very much available.

recent videos: Amanda Earl + Monty Reid,

The video of Amanda Earl's recent feature at The TREE Reading Series has been posted online. Also, the ottawa international writers festival has been posting a series of "talking about stories" posts, including one with Amanda Earl, and another with Monty Reid.

Amanda Earl and Marcus McCann open for Daniel Allen Cox, September 20, 2015

Chaudiere authors Amanda Earl and Marcus McCann help launch Montreal writer Daniel Allen Cox's new novel, Mouthquake, at
Venus Envy Ottawa on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 6:30pm.

Venus Envy Ottawa is at 226 Bank Street. See the facebook event page here.

Amanda Earl at the University of Ottawa, April 7 2015

Tuesday, April 7at 7:00pm
University of Ottawa - L’Université d’Ottawa
75 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

Ottawa plays host to our latest 4th anniversary celebration, with an evening of stimulating discussion around the themes of translation and poetry. Joining us will be University of Ottawa Associate Professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation Marc Charron, esteemed poet, author, editor and translator Seymour Mayne, writer, editor and publisher Amanda Earl, and Asymptote’s own Romania Editor-at-Large Chris Tănăsescu, also a poet, performer, and translator.

Proceedings will begin with Marc Charron, who will speak on contemporary translation and working in translation studies, and continue with elaboration and personal perspectives from our other speakers, followed by poetry readings and open discussion. Attendees will then have the opportunity to take part in a Q&A with our guests.

University of Ottawa, Arts Hall, Arts 509 Conference Room

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Marc Charron is Associate Professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Ottawa, co-director of the Literary Translation Series of the University of Ottawa Press, and a member of the advisory or editorial board of several Translation Studies journals. Since early 2012, he has offered courses and seminars as invited professor at the UNAM in Mexico City, University of Sao Paulo, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Seymour Mayne is the author, editor, or translator of more than sixty books, and University of Ottawa Professor of Canadian Literature, Canadian Studies, and Creative Writing. His work has been translated into many languages including French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish. His latest collections include the bilingual Ricochet: Word Sonnets/Sonnets d'un mot and The Old Blue Couch and Other Stories. Cusp, a selection of new word sonnets, was recently released to mark fifty years since the publication of his first collection of poetry.

Amanda Earl is a poet, writer and small press publisher from Ottawa, and as of 2014 a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Her first book of poetry, Kiki, was printed by Chaudiere Books in 2014. Her work has been published in journals and chapbooks in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the USA. A synaesthete, her visual poetry has been featured in Drunken Boat, Unlikely Stories and Illiterature.

Chris Tănăsescu aka MARGENTO is–in addition to Asymptote’s Romania Editor-at-Large–a poet, performer, critic, and translator who has performed, lectured, and been published in the US, SE Asia, Australia, and Europe. His moniker is also the name of his multimedia cross-artform band, winner of a number of major awards including the 2008 Romanian Gold Disc, and 2005 The Fringiest Event Award. Recipient of a 2-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant, he continues to develop his Graph Poem project and related graph theory applications in poetry as an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Ottawa.