Books

Wakefield writer Nathan Vanek is having a book published by a new British publisher.  Bluemoose Books, located in Yorkshire, will shortly publish, as one of its first two books, The Bridge Between, a collection of articles written by Vanek and originally published in The Low Down to Hull and Back newspaper between 1999 and 2000. The book may be ordered at the publisher's website www.bluemoosebooks.com

September 23.  Annual General Meeting of the Western Quebec Literacy Council.  The program includes story telling by Venetia Crawford, actively associated with the Pontiac Archives, and Armand Ducharme.  There will be also be an Awards and Recognition Ceremony, and a Workshop on the theme Make Your Own Book.
10.00 am. to 3.00 pm., at the Western Quebec Career Centre on Frank Robinson Street in Aylmer.
For more information and to preregister call the Council at 819-647-3112.

The Gatineau Valley Historical Society has just published Volume 32 of its series Up the Gatineau!, featuring eight local stories of the past, on such subjects as firefighting, a family of settlers, prohibition, women and the vote, and old-time schooldays.The Volume is available at Solstice Books in Wakefield, through reidh@travel-net.com, or by calling (819) 827-0138.

Stacey Acker, a writer from Nova Scotia who now lives in Clarendon Township, has been awarded a plaque by the International Library of Poetry and poetry.com for her poem "When Life is Rough", posted on the website poetry.com.  The poem will now be featured in a hardcover book and has also been selected as one of 33 top poems which are to be recorded on a CD poetry collection.