{"id":7219,"date":"2015-03-04T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T22:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2015-03-19T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:40:43","slug":"7219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2015\/03\/04\/7219\/","title":{"rendered":"East vs West literary showdown — March 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come out and help us guess which iconic East or West Coast authors wrote famous literary passages. If authors are stumped, they get to call on the audience for help, so we need lifelines! <\/span><\/p>\n

This interactive literary event, which will take place at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies on UFV’s Abbotsford campus, pits BC authors (Doretta Lau, Aaron Peck) against Ontario authors (Janette Platana, Emily Pohl-Weary) in the ultimate literary challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n

The four writers will also do short readings that represent their respective hometowns.<\/p>\n

Representing BC:
\nDoretta Lau, author of the short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? http:\/\/www.dorettalau.com\/<\/a>
\nAaron Peck, author of the novel The Bewilderments of Berard Willis — http:\/\/anyofthem.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Representing Ontario:
\nJanette Platana, author of the short story collection A Token of My Affection — http:\/\/janetteplatana.com\/<\/a>
\nEmily Pohl-Weary, author of Ghost Sick and UFV’s Writer-in-Residence — http:\/\/emilypohlweary.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Mon, March 16
\n7-9 pm<\/p>\n

Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies (Abby)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come out and help us guess which iconic East or West Coast authors wrote famous literary passages. If authors are stumped, they get to call on the audience for help, so we need lifelines! This interactive literary event, which will take place at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies on UFV’s Abbotsford campus, pits BC authors … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}