Fairy Tales for the Winter poetry reading

Join Ruth Daniell & Kerry Gilbert for readings from their new poetry collections, The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press), and Little Red (Mother Tongue Publishing).Sunday, December 1, 2019 1:00 p.m. Okanagan Regional Library, Kelowna Branch• free • all are welcome • classroom 1, upstairs • books for saleRUTH DANIELL is an award-winning writer whose poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Grain, Room magazine, Qwerty, the Antigonish Review and Event. The recipient of the 2013 Young Buck Poetry Prize with CV2 and the winner of the 2016 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest with The New Quarterly, Daniell is also the editor of Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts (Caitlin Press, 2016). She holds a bachelor of arts degree (honours) in English literature and writing from the University of Victoria and a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She lives with her family in Kelowna, BC.http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/the-brightest-thing/KERRY GILBERT grew up in the Okanagan and have lived on Vancouver Island, in South Korea, and in Australia. She now lives back in the valley, where she teaches Creative Writing at Okanagan College and raises her three children. Her first book of poetry, (kerplnk): a verse novel of development, was published in 2005 with Kalamalka Press. Her second book of poetry, Tight Wire, was published in 2016 with Mother Tongue Publishing. Tight Wire was on the ReLit Long Shortlist for 2017. Most recently she won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer 2016/2017. The suite is the core of a new verse manuscript called Little Red, which was published with Mother Tongue Publishing in Spring 2019.https://49thshelf.com/Books/L/Little-Red