Just a quick update before the summer begins: It’s been an exciting spring, with a great read of Travelling Light at Locution (featuring fellow MFA peeps Emily Davidson and Sigal Samuel); a terrific screening of Run Dry at VWIFF 2012; and the super-exciting launch of The Enpipe Line (available here from Creekstone Press) which included poets and activists reading their work in front of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines office. Check out this great write-up of the launch in the Vancouver Observer, and get involved in resisting the pipelines and the tar sands!
In playwrighting news, The Possible Lives of Dolores Garcia Rodriguez will be seeing its second incarnation as part of Sage Theatre’s Ignite! Festival, while in late April/early May I’ll be hitting the Caravan Farm for a writer’s retreat with PTC peeps Tim Carlson (who just won the Rio Tinto Alcan for his economy of oil piece, Extraction); Jan Derbyshire (Remarkable Woman of Vancouver 2012) and Heidi Taylor (Dramaturg Extraordinaire and Incoming Executive Director of the PTC). And yes, I apologize for the name dropping, but I’m still massively excited to be in such dynamic company.
On the short film front, Run Dry will also be screening at The Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, and at Reel Earth 2012 in New Zealand, where we’ve been nominated in the Best Short Film category! Meanwhile, Do Over has gone into production in Toronto, so keep your fingers crossed for Skipper, the time-travelling waitress!
Finally, make sure you check back here in September/October for exciting news about a project that I’m going to be cruel and keep mostly secret for the time being … except to say that I’ll be working with some of my favourite people on a mad literary experiment! Stay tuned…