Wednesday March 26, 7 pm, sees Valerie Stetson, Jake Kennedy and Jason Dewintez at the downtown Kelowna branch of the Okanagan Regional Library (1380 Ellis St) for the final literary evening of a stellar season of readers. Valerie Stetson is the author of a collection of short stories, The Year

Hit a wee web site snag in the past month or so that if I'd acted on it right away could have easily been rectified and I'd not have lost my post on John Irving's keynote at the AWP conference (he writes his endings first, if you missed it first

My Ontario jaunt was brief but archetypically fall - wind, fallen apples, colourful trees, crunchy leaves underfoot - and reminded me how I miss Ontario's seasons. BC's are, well, different. In Niagara-on-the-Lake I read to my parents and the librarian. No complaint, really. I enjoyed it. Maybe the no-shows were

Thanks to the Canada Council, I'll be in Ontario for two readings in late October: Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library 2 pm, Sunday, October 28, 2007 Pelham County Public Library Fonthill ON 7.30 pm, Monday, October 29, 2007

"What an indifferent diarist I am," I was about to write and then honesty intervened to say, "No, you're a terrible diarist!" It's not as if this is news. I've tried to keep a diary ever since I was 8. It always goes the same. I record the events of