The Writer's Studio Reading Series (April 2012)

Our creative writing program, The Writer’s Studio, hosts a popular monthly reading series featuring local and out-of-town writers and authors. These mixed-genre readings are open to the public.

Our readers this month include the following:

FIONA SCOTT (TWS 2007) is a blogger who often skips writing for travel. The "babe with a backpack" has solo-trekked through 39 countries, resulting in drawers of knickknacks, an unpublished book, and many overloaded memory sticks. A former TWS host and a graduate of The Writer's Studio, she’s ready to "fess up" to the unpublished stories.

D.N. SIMMERS (TWS 2012) has published in Prairie Fire, sub terrain, Poet’s Touchstone, and others. He also has six chapter books published in Canada and the US. More poems are forthcoming in Nomad’s Chair Review and Splizz, a poetry magazine in Wales. He is an online editor of Fine Lines.

YAANA DANCER grew up running around on three acres in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver. Surrounded by second-growth rainforest, she longed to see more than trees. That led to a life of running and travel, both solo and with her daughter.

HARRY KARLINSKY (TWS 2009) is a Vancouver-based psychiatrist and founding director of The Frames of Mind mental health film series. His first novel, The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879), was published first by Insomniac Press Canada and later by Harper Collins UK (February 2012).

ARCHER HAUGHTON (TWS 2011) is a “Dialogue/Character Writer, ” according to an obscure online quiz. This may be true, since one of her most beloved characters is an 82-year-old, sword-wielding granny. A graduate of The Writer's Studio, she hopes to eventually capture (and publish) the many stories in her head.

MORGAN CHOJNACKI, a TWS graduate, has published fiction and non-fiction in several anthologies. She recently completed a novel set in Quebec, and is planning a road trip to the Banff Centre for the Arts in May, where she will spend two weeks immersed in revisions and playing in the mountains.

ELIZABETH McLEAN moved to Vancouver last September from Hanoi, Vietnam, where she lived for six years. Imagining Vietnam, her volume of historical fiction, will be published in the UK by Impress Books in September. She encourages all novelists to submit their manuscripts for the 2012 Impress Prize for New Writers.

Guest Artist

TAYU HAYWARD is a 20-something vagabond photographer, writer, and general enthusiast who seeks solace in the people and places that defy the status quo. His most recent exhibition, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, was showcased at the SFU Teck Gallery in 2011. For more information, visit www.tayuhayward.com.