HAMMERED OUT NEWS
HAMMERED OUT #7.5 (Peter Street Publishing, Dec. 2005) won for "Best Anthology" at the Hamilton Literary Awards this past week! Please scroll down further for the complete list of this year�s winners.
The 2006 Silver Hammer Awards (Poetry) will take place Thursday, December 14 - 7-9 p.m. - at the Casbah Lounge, 306 King St. W, corner of Queen & King Sts. in Hamilton, ON. Admission is free. Come for the ceremony, readings and some holiday spirits! Then stick around for some great music�at 9:30 the local band, Oceanship, will be playing their farewell show at the Casbah before leaving to tour China! (cover charge applies).
COMING UP THIS WEEK
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 - 7:30 PM (tonight!)
LiT LiVe presents Bernadette Rule (New and Selected Poems), Steve McOrmond (Lean Days), Rafi Aaron (Surviving the Censor - The Unspoken Words of Osip Mandelstam), Claire Harris (She), Robert Boates (He Carries Fear), Debra Anderson (Code White). LiT LiVe runs first Sunday monthly, at the King Paisley Pub, 1019 King St. W. in Westdale, Hamilton. For information, call (905) 526-6184. Sponsored by Kairos Literary Society. More information at www.kairosliterary.com.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 - 7 PM
Join us for the launch of The Literate Thief: Selected Poems by Bernadette Rule at Gallery on the Bay (231 Bay St. N. at Barton, in Hamilton). RSVP Bryan Prince, Bookseller, (905) 528-4508, and bring along a musical instrument for an informal music session after the reading.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 - NOON � 2 PM
Bryan Prince, Bookseller, is honoured and pleased to announce that the Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander will visit their newly expanded bookshop to officially open the new literature room and sign copies of his new autobiography, Stay in School, You're a Little Black Boy ($40.00 plus GST). Mr. Alexander will cut a ceremonial ribbon to open the new room and then sign copies of his autobiography for the public. Bryan Prince Bookseller is located at 1060 King Street West, Hamilton.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 - 9 AM TO NOON
CJ�s Cafe in Bronte, ON, is pleased to host a book-signing. J.J. Gowland will be signing the hilarious golf fiction novel, Confessions of a Sandbagger, at the cafe, which is located at 2416 Lakeshore Rd W, Bronte (between Licks and Denningers). Call 905-465-0411 for more info.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Matt Firth�s new book, Suburban Pornography and Other Stories (Anvil Press, 2006), is reviewed on The Danforth Review, in a paired essay/review with Kenneth J. Harvey�s Inside. Reviewer Michael Bryson writes: �If Firth is �Canada�s Bukowski� it�s not because others haven�t gone before into the fire-pit of working class or noir literature. If Firth is CanBuk, it�s because his prose takes a starker stance than others: Firth�s narratives of Canadian inner-city dwellers, low-end job workers and drifting men are darker, harder, perhaps more perverse or at least more directly sexualized than arguably any other fiction in Canadian history.� For full review go to:
www.danforthreview.com/reviews/fiction/harvey& firth.htm
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