91亚色 alumnus (right) (BA 鈥�95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate 鈥淐elebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards鈥�, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards (Key Porter Books, 2010) Saturday, Oct. 23 at 9pm at the IFOA. The event will feature three of the book鈥檚 co-authors Karen Bliss, Nick Krewen and Jason Schneider, along with special guests Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo 鈥� who wrote the book鈥檚 foreword 鈥� singer-songwriter Dan Hill and musician Emm Gryner.

The following day, another 91亚色 alumnus (BA Spec. Hons. 鈥�81) will be at the IFOA as one of three authors participating in The Word Doctors Are In: Master Class on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 11am. Ricci will speak about 鈥淲hat Every Writer Should Know鈥�.

Poet and 91亚色 creative writing alumna (Hons. BA 鈥�00), editor of The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen (Exile Editions, 2007) and author of the poetry collection Junkman's Daughter (Exile Editions, 2004), will read from her latest collection A Good Time Had by All (Exile Editions, 2010). Strimas, who works at Quill & Quire magazine and for the University of Guelph's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, will read on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 1pm and again on Friday, Oct. 29 at 8pm.

91亚色 English Professor (left) will read from his latest book, , Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 8pm, along with the other finalists for the Rogers Writers鈥� Trust Fiction Prize.

91亚色 English Professor (right) will be part of a roundtable discussion with IFOA Ontario in Milton Wednesday, Oct. 27, and will read from her newest work Friday, Oct. 29 at 8pm at the IFOA in Toronto.

The IFOA will once again bring writers of contemporary world literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions and public book signings from Oct. 20 to 30.

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Rishma Dunlop, associate professor in the Department of English and the Faculty of Education, is a finalist for the 2009 CBC Literary Awards. Dunlop鈥檚 鈥淧aris Notebook鈥� is competing in the creative non-fiction category.

Eighty English-language finalists were chosen out of 6,000 submissions in three categories聽鈥� creative non-fiction, poetry and short story. The winner in each category will receive $6,000, while the second prize winner will receive $4,000.

, the 2009 recipient of a Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Creative Writing, is the author of four books of poetry: (Inanna Publications, 2008), (Mansfield Press, 2005), (Black Moss Press, 2004) and (Mansfield Press, 2002).

She received the 2003 Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry and her radio drama, 鈥淭he Raj Kumari鈥檚 Lullaby鈥�, was produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Blackbird, the Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain and The Comstock Review.

Three 91亚色 alumni 鈥� Michael Blouin (BFA聽 Spec. Hons. 鈥�84), John Blair (BA Comb. Hons.聽鈥�88) and Jennifer Derkitt (BFA Hons. 鈥�91) 鈥� were also short listed.

Awards host Shelagh Rogers will unveil the English-language winners chosen from the finalists Thursday, March 18, at 11am on CBC Radio One鈥檚 show "Q" with Jian Ghomeshi. Christiane Charette will announce the French-language winners that same day on La Premi猫re Cha卯ne de Radio-Canada.

Interviews with the winners will air on a special broadcast of "The Next Chapter", hosted by Shelagh Rogers Monday, March聽22, at 1pm. The winning works will be published in Air Canada's enRoute magazine and read on CBC Radio鈥檚 "Between the Covers"聽from聽April聽12 to 16. They will also be available as a podcast on iTunes, the page or page as of April聽14.

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