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Breakfast Speakers 2019

  • Breakfast Meeting January 19, 2019
  • Breakfast Meeting February 16, 2019
  • Breakfast Meeting March 16, 2019
  • Breakfast Meeting April 20, 2019
  • Breakfast Meeting May 18, 2019
  • Breakfast Meeting, June 15, 2019
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  • Breakfast Meeting November 16, 2019
  • Holiday Gala December 14, 2019

April 17 Zoom Breakfast Meeting

Carmelo Militano began his writing career as a free-lance journalist and broadcaster for CBC Radio One in Winnipeg.

Carmelo Militano  is a poet, writer, editor, teacher, and radio broadcaster.

Militano’s poetry, fiction, and non-ficion explores the intersection and meeting of a dual consciousnes -Italian & English Canadian- in History, classical myth, family, idenity and the erotic.

Carmelo Militano hosted and produced a weekly poetry( 2014-2017) show at CKUW FM 95.9 ( Winnipeg), called the P.I.New Poetry Show, where he inteviewed poets and writers locally and from across Canada. Podcasts can be found at Programs and Archives, CKUW, P.I. New Poetry Show.

Militano’s poems, fiction, reviews and essays, and literary interviews have been published in a wide range of publications: Accenti, Black Scat Review, CV2,Italian Canadiana,La Macchina Sognante(Italy), Lemon Hound, Northern Poetry Review, Quebec Poetry Review, Sangara(Italy), The Lonely Offices, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, The Toronto Quarterly, PopMatters, and Prairie Fire.

Militano is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and The National Book Critics Circle( USA).

more info at his webpage:  carmelomilitano.com

2020 Short Story Contest Results

The Third Annual Joseph Smrdelj Short Story Contest for 2020 is now complete. Our judge, Prof Leonard Rosmarin announced the winners at our Zoom Breakfast Meeting on December 12, 2020.  

Congratulations to the winners and to all of those that entered the contest. Prof Rosmarin was impressed with all of the short stories and it was difficult to select winners.

First       Ann Birch

Second   Heather Dick

Third      Michael Croucher

 

Thelma Wheatley Launches New Novel

WEN member Thelma Wheatley has launched a new novel titled “Tamarind Sky”. The virtual launch took place on October 22 of this year. There is a youtube link below of her reading a chapter from this book.

If you like, you can watch and listen to Thelma Wheatley read Chapter 2 from her new book, TAMARIND SKY.

In this chapter (which is short) Selena , a white British girl living in Toronto takes her new fiancee, a dark-skinned Sri Lankan called Aidan, home to Wales to get married in her home town, Cardiff. Selena expects her mother to be happy and welcoming to Aidan, but Mother has different ideas. . .

Click here for the youtube link: https://youtu.be/SgJQRvdsBwM .

Aviva Mayers Launches “If Only I Had Known”

This is a book about options… options for treatment, management, and prevention of breast cancer outside of mainstream medicine. It is the result of the journey that Aviva Mayers took back to health, and many of her choices outside of mainstream medicine are discussed here. Aviva was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Like millions of women throughout the world, she initially agreed to a conventional treatment out of fear and confusion. But she began to question those choices as the treatment progressed. Following her treatment she took herself on a journey to learn about gentler, less invasive, treatments outside of conventional medicine. Aviva attributes her current state of good health to the integrative and alternative paths she ultimately followed.

The book includes interviews with patients who followed a path to recovery, much of which they attribute to alternative treatments. And it includes interviews with a range of health care practitioners working with patients with breast or other cancers. The professionals share their thoughts on mainstream treatments, discuss integrative and alternative interventions that can help with recovery, and in some cases even replace conventional treatments. The book also offers advice on how to prevent breast cancer in the first place or how to avoid a recurrence.

If Only I Had Known is essential reading for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. It provides a unique perspective on treatments that your doctor may not tell you about. Knowing about these options could improve your life both physically and psychologically. The information contained here is also relevant to people suffering from other cancers, since many of the same inflammatory processes may contribute to their cancers. Available on Amazon or FriesenPress.

The author, Aviva Mayers, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. To find out more about her  new book, call (647) 282-3943, email: amayers@rogers.com, or visit her website at: www.avivamayers.com/book

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The winners of our 2020 Short Story Contest are Ann Birch, Heather Dick and Michael Croucher

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