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The Branch Line May 2018
Summer Dreaming
Alberta Branch Contact
P.O. Box 52007
It appears we have finally been consider stepping forward for a
Edmonton, AB T6G 2T5
graced with sunny weather in volunteer position with the branch.
mail@canauthorsalberta.ca
Alberta. Warm weather means CAA Alberta relies on volunteers
www.canauthorsalberta.ca
summer hikes and sunny writing for so many critical roles, many
retreats - but it’s also the time CAA of which are currently empty.
The Branch Line Editor Alberta takes a brief respite from Anyone who is interested can
Danielle S. Fuechtmann our programming to focus on the contact me directly at president@
branchline@canauthorsalberta.ca work members don’t often hear canauthorsalberta.ca to volunteer
about. immediately, or you can express
Board Enquiries interest before our upcoming AGM
Nicolas Brown We started that work off May 2nd in September.
president@canauthorsalberta.ca with a strategic planning session
facilitated by an advisor from In the meantime, the branch
Membership Information Alberta Culture and Tourism. team will be focusing heavily on
Although attendance numbers administrative tasks, chasing down
Danielle Fuechtmann
left a little to be desired, those grants and building partnerships
mail@canauthorsalberta.ca
who attended provided valuable with our colleagues in Alberta. I am
feedback to the branch on what confident that our hard work will
CAA Annual Membership direction the branch should move show dividends for our members
New Member - $175 towards. Personally, I am gratified and writers across Alberta.
Renewal - $175 that the discussion echoed many
Student - $50.00 of the topics we have discussed Last but not least, I want to
at the board level in recent remind all members about our
Membership can be paid in full or by months. I look forward to laying upcoming Exporting Alberta
installments. Applications and more the groundwork for a new strategic Award Celebration on June
information are available from the plan with those discussions in 2nd. This year we have added
Alberta Branch Membership Chair,
mind. an educational component to
Alberta Branch website or National
Office. the celebration, inviting three
We also held a Special General phenomenal speakers to present
Meeting. There was an active in addition to our usual awards
National Office Contact discussion of the proposed bylaw celebration. I encourage members
Phone: 705-325-3926 amendment and the strategic who have not already registered
Toll-free: 866-216-6222 planning session, both items were to do so as soon as possible.
Email: tabled for further discussion at our This celebration is always a great
admin@canadianauthors.org upcoming AGM in September. way to wrap up the CAA Alberta
Website: year and recognize members’
canadianauthors.org/national Unfortunately, we also did not achievements.
have any new volunteers join the
board which is a critical item of Sincerely,
concern for the branch. We are
also seeking additional volunteers Nicolas Brown, BBA, C.I.M., PCP
for our ad-hoc bylaw review President
committee. I urge all members to
Interested in submitting articles or information for the Branch
CAA - AB Board Line?
2017 - 2018 Elected Email Danielle at mail@canauthorsalberta.ca!
Members
President
Nicolas Brown
Vice President
Vacant
Treasurer
Vacant
Acting Treasurer Kim Deep
2017 - 2018 Appointed
Members
Membership Chair
Vacant
Membership Committee
Vacant
Program Chair
Vacant
Writers in Residence
Greg Bechtel
caawir-gb@canauthorsalberta.ca
Tim Bowling
caawir-tb@canauthorsalberta.ca
Writer in Residence Liaison
Vacant
Interested in joining the CAA-AB
Board? We’d love to have you!
Email
president@canauthorsalberta.ca
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible
parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented
squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another
person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across
the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside
your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest
of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of
distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the
shackles of time--proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl SaganEvents of Interest
READ & WRITE WITH PRIDE 2018
June 12 | 7:00–9:00pm at Audreys Books Ltd., 10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton
For the fourth year, a collective of Edmonton LGBT authors are getting together to once again present to you Read & Write With Pride.
Come experience new fiction, non-fiction, and verse from your team of local authors!
The authors (in no particular order)
J.P. JACKSON (Daimonion, Book One of the Apocalypse/A Tendered Garden/Magic Or Die - TBR July 2)
RUBY SWANSON (A Family Outing)
ROB BROWATZKE (Through The Mirrorball/The Orb Of Neverland/A Pride Anthem - TBR)
HEIDI BELLEAU (Dead Ringer/Apple Polisher/Straight Shooter)
MARINA REID HALE (These Are Not Love Poems)
LAURIE MACFAYDEN (Kissing Keeps Us Afloat/White Shirt/Walking Through Turquoise)
hosted by SHELDON L’HENAFF (Drowned World/Joy/Becoming Remixed - TBR summer)
PURE SPECULATION FESTIVAL 2018
June 15 - 16 | Alberta Avenue Community Centre – 9210 118 Avenue, Edmonton
The Pure Speculation Festival is Edmonton’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, featuring panels, demos, games, costumes, face-
painting, and more!
Guests of Honour this year are Krista D. Ball, Candas Jane Dorsey, and Sam Maggs. And we’ll be showcasing some of Edmonton’s
finest and nerdiest artists, crafters, and vendors in our Main Hall.
Best of all, admission for the event is free!
For more event details, head over to www.purespec.org. If you have any questions, please contact us at pure.speculation@gmail.com.
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Writers helping writers since 1921
Autumn Workshop Series
RICHARD VAN CAMP
September 28 - 29
SG WONG, E.C. BELL, JAYNE BARNARD
October 26 - 27
LEXIE HANCOCK
November 23 - 24
canauthorsalberta.ca facebook.com/caaalberta twitter.com/CAAAlbertaRhythm and the Poetic Line: Alice Major Keeps The
Lines Tau(gh)t
by Lisa Mulrooney, M.Ed.
“Let us not lose / our douce capabilities of our brains favour recent publication of Welcome to
endearments. Let them endure / in reflection symmetry over the Anthropocene (her eleventh
every tongue.” Alice Major translation symmetry, but it is collection of poetry) and her
translation symmetry that gives receipt of the 2017 Lieutenant-
On April 28th, in partnership with poetry its musical quality. While Governor of Alberta Distinguished
the Edmonton Poetry Festival, the that all sounds very complex, Artist Award, among many other
Canadian Authors’ Association Major’s intelligent but casual accolades and accomplishments,
hosted a fascinating and approach brought clarity to this workshop attested to Major’s
enlightening workshop with special all those in attendance. She brilliance as both poet and
guest facilitator, Alice Major. explained that while our eyes are mentor. By the end of the session,
Registrants originally expected the used to recognizing how the left participants were satiated while
workshop to be facilitated by Lorna side of a thing may reflect the still hungering for more. In the
Crozier, who was unfortunately right side of a thing, our ears do poem “Eggs,” by Lorna Crozier,
called away to deal with a family not work in the same way. When the speaker describes someone
health emergency. Although we hear the pattern “de-DUM, composing a “gratitude list” with
saddened and concerned about de-DUM,” we are unlikely to have an item for each letter of the
Crozier’s situation, participants our attention drawn to “DUM-de, alphabet. The list-maker does not
in the workshop were grateful to DUM-de,” which is symmetrical by get past “E for eggs,” but that is
have Major step in to offer her own virtue of being the reverse of the enough to motivate her with some
brand of wit and wisdom. Major did original. Instead, we are inclined welcome momentum. If Alice
not disappoint. By the end of the to experience a sense of poetic Major’s workshop participants
three-hour workshop, attendees cohesion when we hear “ta-TUM, were to compile a similar list about
were armed with new tools for ta-TUM,” which is symmetrical by the qualities of the session on April
increasing their attentiveness virtue of sharing the same pattern 28th, they would not need to go
to the rhythms of language and of stress over slightly different any further than “E for excellent.”
were inspired to explore how the sounding words. Lorna Crozier would have
sonorific qualities of their own As if dabbling in the science approved.
poems function in tandem with line at the heart of poetic sounds,
breaks and line length. rhythm, rhyme and meter were
Drawing from examples of not enough, Major also treated
traditional poetic forms with participants to an exploration of
regular metrical patterns how pattern sequences and their
and rhyme schemes, Major effects work in the rap lyrics of pop Find us online!
demonstrated how readers are culture icon Eminen. Major blew
often unwittingly attuned to their apart classic notions of rhyme
own expectations. She drew by demonstrating how and why Find us sharing branch
attention to how readers and Eminen is incredibly skilled at news, event information,
listeners are influenced by speech capitalizing on the sounds of the resources, and more on
patterns, so much so that the very language, especially in his rhyming
names given to us at birth lilt with of two such disparate phrases
Facebook:
metrical resonance. as “public housin’ systems” and facebook.com/caaalberta
Patterns in poetry, repeated “Munchausen’s Syndrome.”
across lines and even stanzas, Participants were then delighted
sometimes slip by us unnoticed when Major channeled her own Catch us making the most
in any conscious sort of way, version of a rap artist, delivering a of Twitter’s character limit
despite the fact that we may find punchy recitation of her poem, “A
them pleasing or jarring. Major battle rap by The Universe.” at:
explained how the detection Coming hot on the heels of Major’s twitter.com/caaalbertaYou can also read
