When
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 7:15pm
Where
Details
Tuesday, June 12, at the Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, from 7:15-8:15. Food and drinks from the menu. Readings begin 8:15 - Free Admission.
The Exile Writers Series - an evening of book launches and readings.
Tonight we feature 8 of the 12 writers (all three winners will read) who appear in the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology, which gathers those shortlisted for the Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition, open to Canadian writers - this year the winners were awarded $7,000!
The prizes/competition are sponsored by Ms. Gloria Vanderbilt.
Leon Rooke
Seán Virgo
Christine Miscione
Martha Bátiz
Amy Stuart
Kelly Watt
Daniel Perry
Jacqueline Windh
This annual short fiction competition is open to all Canadian writers, with two prizes awarded: $3,000 for the best story by an emerging writer, and $2,000 for the best story by a writer at any point of her/his career. Hundreds of stories were received in 2011–12, and from the 12 that eventually were shortlisted, I selected the winners, being those that most appealed to me, as a writer, as a reader, and as a lover of the written word on paper. And, like last year, I simply could not choose only two... so have added a second $2,000 prize. I am proud and thrilled that all these wonderful writers are presented in the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology, Book Two, a special edition published in memory of my son, Carter V. Cooper.
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