Out-take: Marjorie Poor

(l-r) Writer Sarah Klassen and Prairie Fire magazine Associate Editor Heidi Harms and Operations Coordinator Janine Tschuncky pick on Prairie BOOKS now editor Marjorie Poor at the Michael and Kathleen Winter Afternoon Book Chat at McNally Robinson's soon-to-be-lost-to-the-sands-of-time Portage Place location.

Reading Copy: Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter is a Holyrood writer who has written dramatic and documentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC television and writes a weekly column for the St. John's Telegram. She has published a novella, Where Is Mario, and two books of creative non-fiction, The Road Along the Shore and The Necklace of Dreams.

Her new book, a collection of stories called boYs (biblioasis), is a wryly observant investigation of the distance between men and women. The manuscript won the 2006 Metcalf Rooke Award, and the collection's lead story will be included in the next volume of Best Canadian Stories.

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The Fashion Breakdown Pt. 2

Gwen Smid and Sara Matyas, mainstage volunteer extraordinaires, went above and beyond the call of duty coordinating their volunteer outfits. Note the shoes and beads these ladies are sporting. They will definitely be winning the volunteer fashion trophy at the volunteer banquet.

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Daria Salamon’s first novel, The Prairie Bridesmaid, will be published in fall 2008 by Key Porter Books. Daria’s journalism has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, and Uptown Magazine; one of her non-fiction pieces appears in A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing. She lives in Osborne Village with her son, Oskar, husband, Rob and cat, Dr. Puddles.

Soundslide: Alison Calder

Alison Calder's first poetry collection, Wolf Tree, was published by Coteau Books in 2007. A selection of poems from this manuscript received the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for writing excellence by a writer under the age of 35. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies, most notably Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets and Exposed, and has twice circulated on Winnipeg city buses.

She is the editor of Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007) and a critical edition of Frederick Philip Grove's 1924 novel Settlers of the Marsh (Borealis, 2006), and the co-editor of History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies (University of Manitoba Press, 2005).

Alison Calder was born in London, England, and raised in Saskatoon. She obtained her BA in English at the University of Saskatchewan before completing Masters and PhD programs at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba. She lives in Winnipeg with her husband, Warren Cariou.

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Alison Calder will be appearing at THIN AIR, Winnipeg International Writers Festival:

September 29 - Mainstage, with Trisha Cull, George Ellenbogen, Niels Hav, John Havelda, Paul Savoie.