Prana Coffee presents Prose & Poetry in the Beaches, Wednesday, May 19

Dear Brian

Brandon Pitt's Coffee Bar, Prana Coffee, is now open in it's new location 2130A Queen Street East at Hammersmith in The Beaches.

There's a prose and poetry reading night on Wednesday, May 19th, starting at 7:00 p.m. But come early, order coffee, schmooze and take part of the growing writing community.

The line up of readers includes: Irving Ellman, Uda Hodder Gerginis, Patricia Howard, Peter Jailall, Dianne Korchynski, Fran MacKenzie, Daniel Robinson and Sue Shipley!

For more information visit www.brandonpitts.com or www.pranacoffee.com

See you there,
Sherry
www.sherryisaac.com

For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and creative writing courses, see here.

Prana Coffee Bar presents an evening of prose & poetry

Tuesday, February 16

6:30 p.m.

at Swirls/Prana Coffee
4158 Dudas St. W. in Etobicoke

Featured authors: John Lukachkio, Joyce Wayne, Irving Ellman, Iddie Fourka, Phashow, Steven Jacklin, Nancy Kay Clark, Karen Kachra, and Fran MacKenzie.

Note: For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and creative writing courses, see here.

Prana Coffee Bar presents an evening of prose and poetry

Tonight ~ Tuesday, Jan 19

6:30 p.m.
4158 Dundas Street West, Etobicoke.
Featured Readers: Tanaz Bhathena, Cassie McDanial, Jennifer Bushman, Danielle Valiquette, Sharon Bernas, John R. Hewson MD, Brandon Pitts and Sherry Isaac!
Note: For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and creative writing courses, see here.

Prose & Poetry at Prana Coffee House in Toronto

"Inland Waterways," poems from a peaceable kingdom by Linda Cassidy

Dear Members of my Writing Tribe,

With great excitement, pride and a twinge or two of performance nerves I announce the publication of my poetry collection "Inland Waterways" by the Mississauga publisher In Our Words, Inc. For those of you who know me as Linda Farmer, I am writing under my birth name "Linda Cassidy."

You can purchase copies of Inland Waterways online on the publisher's web site at http://inourwords.ca/

Instead of one big book launch my publisher plans a multiple-author reading event in late January or February. I will also be reading at various venues in the GTA over the next six months. On Tuesday evening, Jan 18, I’ll be reading at Prana Coffee Bar in The Beach, 2130A Queen St. E. (More here.) For information on upcoming readings see the News and Events section of my web site http://lindacassidy.ca (And if you know of any poet-friendly local bookstore in your vicinity, please let me know.)

And lastly, my thanks to you my writing tribe for the many ways you have helped me along the way, be it as tutor, mentor or friendly, encouraging comrade in the glorious activity of poem and prose making.

Regards,
Linda Cassidy
Author: Inland Waterways

For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and creative writing courses, see here.

Call for nominations for the 2010 MARTY awards!

The MARTY Awards will hand out over $10,000 this year, $1,000 to each emerging and each established artist in their field.  So it's time to nominate whoever you think are the best writers (and other artists) in Mississauga. (People who lived in Mississauga for 10 years or more but who have moved away are also eligible.)  Deadline for nominations is March 31, 2010!

Produced by the Mississauga Arts Council, the MARTYs are Mississauga's premiere arts awards. Categories include Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Media Arts, Performing Arts, Performing Arts Group, Patron of the Arts, and Arts Volunteer of the Year.

Last year, Tanaz Bhathena won the award for best emerging writer. If you've been in a class with Tanaz or have heard her read at CJ's Cafe or at Prana Coffee Bar, you'll know why this award was so well deserved.  This year, let's nominate some more great writers we know.  Full details here.
Note: For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and creative writing classes, see here.

Prana Coffee presents prose & poetry, Monday evening, August 9

2130A Queen Street East, Toronto
at Queen & Hammersmith in The Beaches

Readers will include:
Francoise Morissette
Iddie Fourka
Craig Murray
Honey Novick
James R Quinn
Topaz
Jenny Zhou
and Pratap Reddy

For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and creative writing courses, see here.

A night of poetry & prose at Prana coffee bar, Tuesday, January 18

Prana Coffee presents an evening of prose and poetry

Tuesday, March 23
6:30 PM
4158 Dundas St. W., Etobicoke
(A few hundred yards east of Mississauga.  Map here.)

Featured authors: Patricia Faithful, Donna Kirk, Susan James, Brandon Pitts, Alison Bruce, Karin Weber, Elizabeth Copeland, Kimberly Scutt and Elizabeth McGregor.

"The Slide," flash fiction by Sherry Isaac

Mother has no pride. I loathe her for it.

Dad makes a cup of coffee he doesn’t want, moves between the sink and stove, kettle in hand, as if she isn’t there. He sidesteps, he speaks, only when she stands in his path. “You left me," he says. "Remember?”

“I was wrong.” She tugs his sleeve. He’s too quick, his shirt slips from her fingers. She clutches air, drops to her knees. The vibration travels up my legs and spine, tingles reach the top of my head. She trails him. Knee-walking. Across the coarse carpet. Her skin will turn raw.

Dad pulls out a drawer, grabs a teaspoon, opens the jar of coffee. His eyes dart to mine. His smile is bare, a bed in need of linens. “Perhaps you should leave, kiddo.”

The kettle sings. I take his cup. Instant grinds stirred with granulated sugar, tip of my nose over the rim, the aroma strong and familiar. Like Dad.

Mother’s face is a mess. Sobs, snot, spit. She lunges, clutches his pant legs, a pair of flags caught in the wind. She should fall. He holds her up simply by being there. White fingers penetrate the cloth, slide, wrap around his wrists.

He shakes her loose, brushes her touch from his skin like dirt. “No.”

He walks away. I follow.

The kettle on the stove still sings. The woman on her knees still sobs.

Mother has no pride.

Sherry Isaac has published several pieces in Quick Brown Fox. You can read her most recent piece here. She’s also been published in The New Mystery Reader and in Canadian Voices, Volume One. Her short story, “The Forgetting,” placed first in the Alice Munro Contest in 2009.

Sherry's Her first short story collection, Storyteller, will be released Monday, August 29 – and you're invited to the book launch at Prana Cafe, 2130 Queen St E, Toronto, 7 – 9 p.m. More here.

See Brian Henry's schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Georgetown, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Kitchener, Guelph, Woodstock, London, Orangeville, Barrie, Gravenhurst, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.