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Breakfast Speakers 2021

  • Breakfast Meeting January 16, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting February 20, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting March 20, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting April 17, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting May 15, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting June 19, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting July 17, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting September 18, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting October 16, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting November 20, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting December 11, 2021

Sept 18 WEN Breakfast Meeting

Darlene Madott will be our guest speaker. She will present her latest novel, "Dying Times". We are planning to have an in-person meeting. Members will be notified if this changes.

DYING TIMES is the story of a successful though conflicted lady litigator who is confronted by irrevocable death, told at breakneck speed with a dark undercurrent of humour. It is all around her. It is her loving, wise mother who, by dying, triggers open hatred within the family. It is her greedy, irascible but brilliant senior partner at a big downtown law firm who, while determined to control everything, even his own death, discovers generosity. It is the last client the senior partner and lady litigator will share, a man in wheelchair who is appalling in his need to wreak ruin on his wife in a monumentally lucrative divorce case. With all these characters bound for glory, every hard core emotion comes into play, love on the verge of abuse and hatred, loyalty on the verge of betrayal, visceral energy on the verge of exhaustion, a story told by a driven woman in a direct prose that blows the lid off everything. DYING TIMES is a story about several deaths that succeeds in becoming a meditation on dying and a meaningful approach to living.Dying Times frames an important conversation. We die as individually as we have lived. Far from sombre, it is told with a visceral, wry wit and transcendent tenderness. It is surprisingly lively, in the end.

2021 Poetry Contest

WEN is sponsoring a Poetry Contest for 2021. Top prize is $350 donated by Jasmine Jackman in honour of her father. Deadline for entries is October 31, 2021 and entries are open to both WEN and non-WEN members. Click on the following image for more details.

Pigeon Soup and Other Stories

RosannaMicelotta Battigelli is launching her new book “Pigeon Soup and Other Stories”.

Rosanna’s stories interweave themes and recurring characters into a marvelous tapestry of cultural expression and cultural dissonance. She negotiates these byways with warmth, insight, and a true mastery of narrative ellipsis.’ —Paul Butler, author of Mina’s Child and The Widow’s Fire
‘These stories have an intriguing and child-like gaze that also turn a spotlight into some very dark corners . . . this collection is pigeon soup for the soul that rewards its reader.’ —Darlene Madott, award-winning author of Making Olives and Other Family Secrets
‘Reading Pigeon Soup is like being spirited into a chiaroscuro small town, receiving a gift of sight that reveals all hidden shames and unseen heroism.’ —Donna Lee Miele, contributing writer,VIA: Voices in Italian Americana
‘An exquisitely crafted, engaging and lively collection of novelle… a reading to be savoured, much like anything that is fine in life.’—Gabriel Niccoli, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, editor of Ricordi: Racconti di vite oltreoceano and Patterns of Nostos in Italian Canadian Narratives.
Click here to listen to Rosanna read one of her stories:   https://youtu.be/BKRw4CsC210

Is the Short Story Dead?

The following is a link to a panel discussion on “Is the Short Story Dead?” hosted by Shane Joseph. WEN member Barb Nobel was one of the panellists.

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