Ariel Gordon wins prize, publication Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITIONBy Bob Armstrong Winnipeg poet Ariel Gordon has won the inaugural John Lent Poetry Prose Award from British Columbia-based Kalamalka Press.
Kalamalka Press will now publish Gordon's manuscript,
How to Prepare a Collage. Her manuscript was selected from 36 entries.
Gordon, author of
Hump (Palimpsest Press) and
How to Prepare for Flooding (JackPine Press), is a past recipient of the John Hirsch Award for most promising Manitoba writer and the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for poetry.
This fall she will lead a series of reading and writing workshops, through the Winnipeg School Division's Lifelong Learning program, intended to inspire writers of all genres.
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Another little tidbit on the Kalamalka Press chappie, this time in
Bob Armstrong's Paperchase column, which appears in the
Winnipeg Free Press' Saturday Books section.
Published on July 29, 2012 20:36