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June 29, 2009

Winnipeg Free Press Reviews Hal Niedzviecki's The Peep Diaries

Check out the review of Hal Niedzviecki’s The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors in the Winnipeg Free Press at http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/is-our-world-becoming-an-internet-peep-show-49378342.html

June 29, 2009

Joseph Boyden Wins Two Libris Awards

Joseph Boyden has won two Canadian Bookseller Association Libris awards for Author of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year for Through Black Spruce.

Joseph was a guest at the 2008 THIN AIR festival on the Me Sexy Mainstage and talking with Marilyn Dumont at one of our Afternoon Book Chats. 

In 2008 he won the $50,000 Giller Prize for Through Black Spruce.

June 26, 2009

THIN AIR 2009 School Program - Update

All three Deborah Ellis School Stage Events and the two Tim Wynne-Jones School Stage Events are SOLD OUT!

We still have space in our School Stage shows with Hal Niedzviecki (Grades 10 -12) and Charlotte Gingras (Grades 7-9; French).

If you would like more information or to be put on our waiting list please contact Tavia Palmer at info@thinairwinnipeg.ca or 927-7323.

June 22, 2009

The Winnipeg International Writers Festival Welcomes Hal Niedzviecki

The Winnipeg International Writers Festival is excited to feature Hal Niedzviecki at the THIN AIR 2009 festival.

Hal’s latest adult non-fiction book The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours appears at number 12 on O Magazine’s list of 25 Books You Can’t Put Down! (http://www.oprah.com/slidepopup/oprahsbookclub/pastselections/200907-omag-summer-reading-list).

In Winnipeg he will be talking to students about his teenage-friendly work, the award winning The Big Book of Pop Culture. In it he uses upbeat, spirited writing to discuss independent/alternative action and how students can understand and create pop culture themselves.

Hal’s expertise and focus on the new culture being created by electronic social media raises interesting questions about values and privacy itself.

June 22, 2009

Congratulations to JonArno Lawson!

JonArno Lawson’s children’s book A Voweller’s Bestiary has just won the 2009 Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry.

This is the second time JonArno has won the award. In 2007 Black Stars in a White Night Sky won and, in 2005, The Man in the Moon-Fixer’s Mask was named the Honour book for the award.

Another of his works, Inside Out, has also just been shortlisted for the upcoming Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award in the UK!

You should remember JonArno from 2008 when he dazzled audiences on the infamous Poetry Bash Mainstage and at the Afternoon Book Chat at the Polo Park McNally Robinson Bookstore.

June 18, 2009

Debra Anderson Wins the Dayne Ogilvy Grant!

Toronto’s Debra Anderson has won the $4,000 award for emerging gay writers. Debra is a playwright, filmmaker and the author of the hilariously disturbing Code White from McGilligan Books.

Debra was a guest of THIN AIR in 2006 where she was on the Mainstage for Hits and Misses and also at our Afternoon Book Chat.

Congratulations Debra!