Date:
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue:
Contact:
Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Emcee: Derek Hanebury Moderator: Karl Korven ZOOM Producer: Charlene Patterson
Spoken Word Open Mic at Char's Landing, last Wednesday of each month
ZOOM Hybrid event. Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time
JULY 31st FEATURING BARBARA BLACK
Barbara Black writes short and flash fiction, poetry and libretti.
Black’s writing appears in The Cincinnati Review, Geist, The Hong Kong Review, Prairie Fire, and CV2, and in anthologies, including Bath Flash Fiction Award 2021, and Hologram: Homage to P.K. Page.
Achievements include: Fiction Finalist, 2020 National Magazine Awards; Nominated for the 2019 Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize; Winner, 2017 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition; Winner, Federation of BC Writers Contests (Prose Poem) 2018 and (Flash Fiction) 2021/2022; and Shortlisted for the 2023 Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award.
She recently won First Prize in The Plaza Prizes Microfiction Contest 2023 and also placed Second in the Flash Fiction Category.
She is the author of Music from a Strange Planet (Caitlin Press, 2021), which was the winner of the 2023 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the 2023 International Book Awards, the 2023 Canadian Book Club Award and the 2021 Miramichi Reader's Very Best Book Awards.
She lives in Victoria, BC, where she gardens and rides her trusty Triumph motorcycle.
Barbara's books are available for purchase from:
or your favourite independent bookstore.
JULY 31ST READERS LIST
READER 01 Jennifer Wenn 5min Via Zoom (London ONT)
READER 02 Joelunchbucket 5min Via Zoom ( Port Alberni BC )
FEATURE 01 Barbara Black 20 min +Q&A Via Zoom ( Victoria B.C)
READER 03 Victoria Roscoe-Roumanis 5 min in Person (Port Alberni B.C)
READER 04 David Kippling 5 min Via Zoom Gibsons B.C )
READER 05 Dan Biggs 10 min Spotlight in Person ( Port Alberni BC)
READER 06 Kathleen Vance 5 min Via Zoom ( Gibsons BC)
READER 07 Peter Paul Van Camp 5min Via Zoom ( Denman BC)
READER 08 Mark Wonneck 5min Via Zoom ( Qualicum Beach BC
READER 09 Karen Poirier 5min in Person ( Port Alberni BC)
READER 00 Derek Hanebury
JULY 31st FEATURING BARBARA BLACK
July 31st Barbara Black 20 min +Q&A Via Zoom ( Victoria B.C)
July 31st Dan Biggs 10 min Electric Mermaid spotlight in Person ( Port Alberni B.C,)
Video => https://youtu.be/GHXSin1FYD8
PAST FEATURES:
2024
July 31st Barbara Black https://alberni.ca/events/37383
June 26th Karen Hofmann https://alberni.ca/events/37377
May 29th Atma Frans' https://alberni.ca/events/37376
April 24th Kathleen Vance & David Kippling https://alberni.ca/events/37375
March 27th Janice Nielsen https://alberni.ca/events/37374
February 28th Perry Bulwer + Judith Reeves https://alberni.ca/events/37373
January 31st Karen Poirier https://alberni.ca/events/37360
2020-2023 https://alberni.ca/events/37432
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Char’s Landing 19+ (accompanied kids welcome until 10pm)
4815 Argyle @5th Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, CANADA V9Y 1V9
Tel: 778-421-2427 www.charslanding.com
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