Dialogues with Darwin: A Colloquium to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary

Tuesday, Nov. 24
Dr. Stephen Heard, Chair, department of biology, UNB
150 Years of Building on the Origin: How Science Today Would Blow Darwin’s Mind
Reception: 28 Tilley Hall, UNB, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture and Discussion: 104 Tilley Hall, UNB, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Dr. Michael Higgins, President, Saint Thomas University
God and Mr. Darwin: So What’s the Problem?
Reception: To follow in Daigle Auditorium
Lecture and Discussion: Ted Daigle Auditorium, STU, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Dr. Ross Leckie, Director, Creative Writing Program, department of English, UNB
Darwin and Rhetoric: The Origin and the Language of Science
Reception: 28 Tilley Hall, UNB, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture and Discussion: 5 Tilley Hall, UNB, 4 p.m.

This colloquium series is sponsored by the departments of history and biology at the University of New Brunswick, by the UNB Science Faculty, and by the Science, Technology, and Society Program of Saint Thomas University.

Congratulations: To Vanessa Moeller

Congratulations to Vanessa Moeller on the publication of her collection of poetry Our Extraordinary Monsters

6th Poetry Weekend Schedule

Memorial Hall Auditorium

SATURDAY Oct 3 2009

11am
RL reads Dodds
matt robinson 
Justin Joschko 
John Reibetanz 
Josh Trotter 
Sarah Khokhar 
Matt Mott 
Daniel Renton
Sue Sinclair

2pm
Leigh Kotsilidis
Jennifer Houle
Rebecca Geleyn 
Allison Lasorda
Gerry Beirne
Karen Schindler
Sharon McCartney
Zach Wells

8pm 
John Donlan 
A. F. Moritz 
Kevin Connolly
Christina McRae
John Barger
Brent MacLaine
Jesse Ferguson
Jeffery Donaldson

SUNDAY Oct 4 2009

11am
Peter Forrestell
Celia Thompson
John Donlan
April Ripley
Michael deBeyer
Brian Bartlett
Ross Leckie
Danielle Devereaux

2pm
Holly Luhning
Shane Neilson
Matthew Tierney
Tammy Armstrong
Danny Jacobs
A. F. Moritz
Carson Butts
Eric Letcher

8pm
Peter Norman
Vanessa Moeller
James Langer
John Reibetanz
Katia Grubisic
Anita Lahey
Robert Moore
Sue Sinclair
RL reads Dodds

Congratulations: To Jennifer Houle

Jennifer Houle, Creative Writing MA, 2009. Winner of the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest $600.00 Sponsored by The Antigonish Review

Congratulations: To Kristel Thornell

Kristel Thornell Creative Writing MA 2002 Co-winner of 2009 The Australian/Vogel Prizefor the novel Night Street $20,000.00 Australian Dollars and publication by Allen & Unwin

Based on the life of Melbourne artist Clarice Beckett (1887-1935), Night Street tells the story of Clarice, a prolific landscape painter working in the city and suburbs of Melbourne in the early decades of the twentieth century. Her highly atmospheric, enigmatic landscapes find little favour with the critics who disparage her style and subjects. But despite an indifferent art world and a seemingly confined existence as a spinster daughter in the parental home, Clarice leads an intense and sensual private life and has an extraordinary talent for making simple city and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory.

Reading Series 1st Event

For the first event in this year's reading series, UNB's new writer-in-residence, Fred Stenson will be reading on September 16th at the Alumni Memorial Building.

Stenson is the author of fifteen books, including The Trade, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2000. His new novel, The Great Karoo is a nominee for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book.

Please join us for the reading on Wednesday, September 16th at 8:00 pm in the Alumni Memorial Building Lounge.

6th Annual Poetry Weekend

This year's Poetry Weekend will be the best to date. We have a number of distinguished poets visiting.

Poetry Weekend: Oct 3-4, Saturday and Sunday at 11am, 2pm, and 8pm.

The weekend features renowned poets

· A.F. Moritz (this year's Griffin winner)

· Kevin Connolly (Griffin short-list)

· Sue Sinclair (International Independent Publishers' Award for The Drunken, Lovely Boat, UNB graduate)

· John Donlan (Brick Editor)

· John Reibetanz (Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize)

· Anita Lahey (ARC Editor)

· Katia Grubsic (winner of this year's League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Prize, UNB graduate)

· Holly Luhning (Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, UNB graduate) Jeffery Donaldson

· Wayne Clifford

· Matt Robinson (winner of this year's Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, UNB graduate)

· Shane Neilson (Frog Hollow Press Editor)

· Zachariah Wells

· Rachel Lebowitz

· Karen Schindler

Book launches by

· Brent MacLaine (this year's Atlantic Poetry Prize)

· Christina McRae

· Johnny Barger

· Vanessa Moeller (ArtsNB staff, UNB graduate)

· Jesse Ferguson (current UNB PhD)

And local poets

· Sharon McCartney

· Gerry Beirne

· Michael deBeyer

· Tammy Armstrong (current UNB PhD)

· James Langer (current UNB PhD)

· Bob Moore (UNBSJ faculty member)

· Jennifer Houle (UNB graduate)

As well as the UNB Creative Writing students!

UNB Students Crowned with the Malahats

Congratulations to:

Matt Robinson: Creative Writing MA, 2000
The Malahat Long Poem Prize $500 for "against the hard angle"

Shane Rhodes: Creative Writing MA, 1998
The P. K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry $1,000 recognizes the best poem published in 2009 for "For Donnie Peters (1964-1999)"

UNB Students Sweep up the Grain Awards

$ 1, 250.00 to each Winner!!

Congratulations to:

Matthew Heiti: Creative Writing MA, current
Short Grain Fiction Prize for "Snakeskin Boots"

Danny Jacobs Creative Writing MA, 2008
Short Grain Poetry Prize for "How to Shoot Skeet with My Grandfather's Lost Double Barrell"

Congratulations: To Jesse Ferguson

Jesse Ferguson, PhD English , on the publication of his poem MAMA appears in Harper's magazine January 2009

Congratulations: To James Arthur

James Arthur, Creative Writing MA 2001, on the publication of his poem The Death of Painter in The New Yorker in March, 2007. James now holds a prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University