Yes Oui CANSCAIP will host the second edition of "Imagine a Story", a one-day conference for emerging and established creators of works for children.

The event takes place on Saturday, May 28, 2011 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Dawson College 4001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Room 4C1 (Amphitheater), Montreal.

Author Brian Doyle (Quebec), author Marsha Skrypuch (Ontario), picture-book author Elizabeth Bluemle (Vermont), editor Peter Carver (Ontario), children's poet Ted Scheu (Vermont), and author-illustrator Willow Dawson (Ontario) are just a few of the individuals scheduled to speak at the event.

Full conference details and registration information are available online at http://www.yesouicanscaip.ca

Yes Oui CANSCAIP is the Quebec chapter of CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers).

For more info, please contact Carol-Ann Hoyte (kidlitfan1972@yahoo.ca) or Alastair Reeves (a_reeves@videotron.ca).

A Quebec Writers' Federation Weekend Retreat for poetic souls who adore nature and walking

Canadian Writers Society presents Steven Manners who will speak about his book Super Pills, Prescription Drugs We Love To Take. This will benefit the YMCA Equitable Access and Integration Programs which assist children with Special Needs.

Celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's magical imagination through favourite and forgotten stories including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Goblin and the Grocer and more!

Blue Metropolis is proud to announce its 13th Montreal International Literary Festival, taking place from April 27 to May 1st, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Select Downtown Montreal. 99 ave Viger Ouest, Metro Place D'Armes.

13th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival hosts Gore Vidal, Kate Pullinger, Amitav Ghosh, Anna Porter, Bernard Schlink, Alaa Al Aswany and Anne Fine on this year’s literary trip.

A group of leading poets from around the world has organized the biggest poetry competition in history. The new Montreal International Poetry Prize will award $50,000 for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer, written in any English dialect. Designed to bring more attention to poetry and to encourage people from all over the world to enter their poems, the not-for-profit Montreal Prize represents a major contribution to the global cultural scene...

The Montreal Branch of the Canadian Authors Association generally meets at 6:15 pm at the Thomas More Institute, 3405 Atwater just above Sherbrooke Street. Non-members are always welcome.

Learn what greatness is in store in 2011 from Canadian writers coast to coast!

“Akerman holds up our greatest fears, not to dwell on them, but to marvel at our commitment to life, especially to passing it on to others.” Ann Chudobiak, The Montreal Gazette

“This isn’t the invented childhood of imagination and wonderment.” Katie Hewitt, The Globe & Mail

When Mary and Charlie, filled with passion, vulnerability and the impulsiveness of youth, unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and their fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. Stephen Massicotte’s two-character play was the winner of the full-length category in the 2000 Alberta Playwrighting competition.

Poetry is passion, and it is this passion that I have the privilege of sharing with you, dear reader. I hope that you experience the same joy reading the poems in this, my first book of poetry, as I did in writing them. Born and raised in Montreal, I attended Dawson College and Concordia University in the 1970s and 1980s. I have been writing poetry since the age of 13, while navigating the hallways and annexes of Wagar High School. I am a member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation, the Canadian Authors Association and the Invisible Cities Network.

Please visit: http://aileen-lebofsky.blogspot.com

Song of the Silk Road is a romantic adventure on China’s fabled route with the lure of a three million dollar reward.

Kimberly has often performed with Invisible Cities Network. Listen to her music, poetry and dreamtime reveries at: http://www.myspace.com/kimberlyandthedreamtime

Back from his European and UK speaking tour, Canadian author, activist, and whistleblower Kevin Annett is coming to Montreal. Also an award-winning filmmaker, Kevin Annett will read from his new book, UNREPENTANT: DISROBING THE EMPEROR. Come see, hear, and meet the man who first exposed the dark secrets of church-and-state-run residential schools and changed the history of Canada.

Come wrap yourself in these two tentacles of the Unsettlers' rambling octopus. Folk Noir Cabaret with The Unsettlers and Baroque Polkabilly, courtesy of Bad Uncle. Twists, turns and contortions featuring The Creature and various circus miscreants.

Friday, March 4th. Katacombes: doors 9pm, show 10pm, 1635 boul. St. Laurent, Montreal.