{"id":7774,"date":"2020-05-19T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2020-06-04T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:01:34","slug":"literary-cocktails-the-virtual-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2020\/05\/19\/literary-cocktails-the-virtual-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Cocktails: The Virtual Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Literary Cocktails was bigger than ever this year, with over 160 people pre-registering and close to 120 signing in on May 14, from NWT to California, from BC to Nova Scotia.\u00a0If you couldn’t make it, the recorded version is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Lobkowicz, our new Acquisitions Editor for Humanities and Literature, was our MC and we were delighted to introduce her to so many people in the writing community. Our Director and Publisher, Douglas Hildebrand, welcomed the audience and started us off in a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then, the readings!
E. Alex Pierce: To float, to drown, to close up, to open<\/a><\/em>
Angeline Schellenberg: Fields of Light and Stone<\/a><\/em>
Kat Cameron: Ghosts Still Linger<\/a><\/em>
Valerie Mason-John: I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin<\/a><\/em>
The recording of the event can be found online<\/a>.
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Our four readers each did a wonderful job presenting their work. The questions put forward were very thoughtful and led to insightful responses by the poets. As ever, we really appreciated the complimentary way that our poets spoke about their experience with the Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our host was Lauren Carter, who initiated the Pandemic Response Reading Serie<\/a>s and got us organized, from coast to coast! The recording of the event is online<\/a><\/strong>.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People were able to buy books from their local bookseller, courtesy of Don Gorman\u2019s list of indie Canadian bookstores, from our website, or from the series\u2019 bookseller, McNally Robinson in Winnipeg.
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Thank you to all of our friends, colleagues, and fans–thank you for helping us celebrate once again this year!
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\u201cI GREATLY enjoyed the Literary Cocktails event. My kudos to everyone for the organization of the readings. And I was most impressed with the beautiful cover designs of all the poetry volumes.\u201d<\/em> E.S.<\/strong>

\u201cI very much enjoyed the session. It was a delightful distraction\u2026\u201d <\/em>A.A.<\/strong>

\u201cI’ve been appreciating your cocktail suggestions during Literary Cocktails. I was sipping a tiny tiny glass of Saskatoon mead, made in the Rig Hand Distillery in Leduc.\u201d <\/em>A.B.<\/strong>

\u201cI felt very proud of my colleagues tonight. There was a real sense of community.\u201d <\/em>M.B.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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