http://www.descant.ca/blog "Descant...will make you feel glad to be human." — Leon Rooke Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:46:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Descant's Managing Editor is in this group show, which opens in Toronto on March 05. Go check it out! Here's a link to the Facebook Event ... and here's the e-vite: http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/03/03/descant-recommends-%e2%80%a6-boring-people-love-drills/ Toronto School of Art Guest Artists Lecture Series presents Kent Monkman Wed, March 3, 2010 / 6:30-8:30pm Toronto School of Art, 3rd Floor, Studio 1 (410 Adelaide St. W) PWYC Kent Monkman is the next speaker in the Toronto School of Art's Guest Artists Lecture Series this coming Wednesday. DESCANT featured Monkman's work this ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/03/01/descant-recommends-kent-monkman/ Attention writers: you still have a few days to submit your poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and drama to D152, Descant's forthcoming Ghosts and The Uncanny issue! Packages postmarked on or before March 1, 2010 will be accepted for review. D152 is slated for publication in Spring 2011, under the guidance of ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/02/25/reminder-the-deadline-for-descants-ghosts-and-the-uncanny-issue-is-march-1/ Descant is pleased to announce the Winner and Honourary Mentions for the 2010 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem! Descant Editor-in-Chief, Karen Mulhallen, presented the $1,000 prize in honour of Newfoundland poet, Leslie Vryenhoek, during a celebratory reception at Toronto’s PageWave Graphics last night. The Collins Prize commemorates Winston Collins, a ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/02/20/announcing-the-2010-winston-collinsdescant-prize-for-best-canadian-poem-winner/ DESCANT/Winston Collins Prize — Announcement & Celebration Friday, February 19th, 2010 / 6-8pm PageWave Graphics 533 College Street, Suite 402, Toronto (on the corner of College and Euclid, three blocks west of Bathurst) DESCANT is proud to present the poetry event of the season! Join us for an evening of celebration dedicated to the public announcement ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/02/09/youre-invited-10-descantwinston-collins-prize-announcement-celebration/ The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown (Random House Canada, 2009) 295 pages Deservedly, it was recently announced that Ian Brown had won the Charles Taylor Prize, a non-fiction award administered by Charles Taylor's widow, Noreen Taylor, and which was once the richest prize for non-fiction in Canada. This was a ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/02/09/ian-brown-wins-the-charles-taylor-prize/ Thank you to everyone that submitted an OAC Writers Reserve application to DESCANT. The deadline for 2009-2010 submissions has now passed and our final decisions are made. All applicants will be notified about the status of their proposals by mail. The DESCANT editorial team was impressed with the quality of your writing ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/02/02/2009-2010-oac-writers-reserve-decisions-are-in/ Thursday, January 28, 2010 / 7:30pm The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto 14 Elm Street, Toronto DESCANT invites you to celebrate with us at the official launch of 147, our Dance-themed issue! Join us on Thursday, January 28 at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto — one of the oldest arts venues ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/01/19/descant-147-launch-save-the-date/ The (Not So) Nice Italian Girls & Friends Reading  supermarket restaurant & bar 268 Augusta Ave. (south of College) 7.00pm featuring Valentino Assenza has been a published poet and spoken word artist for over the last decade. He has performed at many of the Toronto venues, and performed at many venues, and festivals across Canada. ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/01/19/582/ Descant would like to acknowledge the passing of a magnificent Canadian poet. Yesterday, P.K. Page passed away in Victoria, BC at the age of 93. Since her birth in 1916, Patricia Kathleen Page has amassed numerous awards and honours for her work both within Canada and abroad. In 1954, she received ... http://www.descant.ca/blog/2010/01/15/in-memoriam-pk-page/