Next meeting June 11 at 7:00pm    Location: Kamloops Art Gallery

Topic will be 'The Changing Face of Poetry' led by Barbara Balle' with a demonstration of the problems of language translation, followed by Ted Joslin offering a few examples of 'Poetry Over the Years' followed by an open discussion on the current poetic trend.  Please come prepared for an interesting debate, and bring some samples of your own to demonstrate the latest established format.

William will also be giving us an update on the IAG website and suggesting some ideas for content and resources as well as presenting a poster design to promote the group.

Meeting Announcement Archives....

May 14, 2008 at 7:00 pm.

Interior Authors Group Meeting: 

    Wednesday, April 9th 2008 at the Kamloops Art Gallery. The meeting starts at 7pm and should end around 9pm.  

MEMO FROM THE TREASURER’S DESK.       Be smart, be part of ‘Restart’


New Members:  We welcome June Powell, juneepowell@telus.net

Renewals:  We welcome Margaret Robertson  marghr@telus.net

The Board of Directors welcomes the addition of Eleanor Hancock, eeehancock@yahoo.com effective immediately.

Lapsed Members: It is with regret that lapsed members will be omitted from future mailings.
[The Membership Year is from November 1st. until October 31st. and we encourage all lapsed members to renew now, as exciting changes are in the making.]  Cheque  for annual subscription, have been reduced to  $20.00, should be written to  Interior Authors Group and mailed to the Treasurer at 639, Arbutus Street Kamloops, V2C 1B1

News: In the last six months we have acquired a new Home, a new Board of Directors, a new Mission Statement and a new Public Relations Format. This is just the beginning of  ‘Project Restart’.

For more information: Ted Joslin Vice President. & Treasurer.  250 374-8910  tedjoslin@telus.net

Important !!!: 

    The aforementioned price reduction in membership renewals is only temporary so that we can have some renewed support from our absent members. Please let me know (Emily Robertson)  if you are wanting to continue to be involved with IAG, and are sending a cheque to Ted. 
    The costs of renting a space at the Kamloops Art Gallery , our desire to have guest speakers come to our meetings, and participate in a possible published collection of the IAG members works, all cost money. So with your support we can continue to reach out to authors, poets, editors, creative writers, journalists.. etc. and build a stronger creative community here in Kamloops.
    We do not want to loose anyone, but we do want to make sure that everyone is on board with our IAG ‘Project Restart’. 

Story Writing Contest for Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG):

    Attention all art lovers! Here is a writing contest for you!       
    First of all, you need to go see the Gary Pearson’s painting “Under The Blue Palms”, which begins its exhibition showing on March 30th to May 25th 2008. 

Contest information:
    Question:  What you think is happening in the picture? Then write your response, which is 300 words or less, and finally submit your entry by mail or email to KAG  by 5:00pm, Friday, May 9th/2008. The winner will be announced on Tuesday May 13th, 2008. Best of Luck everyone! For more information check the KAG website: http://www.kag.bc.ca/

Interior Authors Group Logo Contest:  

As you are all fully aware, we are starting ‘Project Restart’ . 
 With that we are planning to take a look at some new ideas. One of which would be a new logo for our group. So if anyone has any ideas or images that they believe would work well, please bring them to our next meeting. 
    Rules:
- Try to have something ready for our next meeting, so that we can take a look at it.   
- The Executive will vote on the presented pieces, and will decide on a winner. 
- The Executive have the right to either choose or refuse any of the presented logos. 
- The Executive’s decision is final.


We look forward to seeing you all there, and if you have any questions beforehand, please contact either Ted Joslin or I.

Emily Robertson

Secretary for IAG
Phone: 376-8777
E-mail: emily_robertson21@hotmail.com

Recent News and Events

July 11th Agenda  

Questions:
1. Presentation: Brenda Oig::  Writing Software
2. Presentation: Ken Forscutt:: Voice Recorders and speech to text

Readings:  Trevor, Camille Robertson and Barbara, plus a few extra 15 min time slots if we are able to fit them in.

June 13th

Questions:
1. Should we nominate new volunteers for the group executive? President, Vice President and Treasurer?
2. Is anybody interested in being the new web master for our web site?*
3. We need to discuss if conducting the meetings throughout the summer is a good idea or not. We have the space and many have already said they would like to continue meeting, since for many, the summer break is when they do much of their writing.

*I have been swamped with work, family events, and been working on a series of books of my own and find that this site has been neglected from time to time. If anybody in the group would like to take over the administration and possibly do a redesign  of this site, let's talk.                Regards, Will

Feb 14th 2007 :: We have a Guest Speaker Patsy Alford

Patsy Alford has taken a break from teaching secondary school English to spend the last three years working in her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Naropa University.

 She has been writing fairly seriously for the past fifteen years. As a member of the local writing group, The Green Stone Mountain Writers’ Collective, she contributes to, and sometimes edits, the Green Stone Mountain Review which can be found in coffee shops around town at irregular intervals.

 Patsy’s poetry has been published in The Dalhousie Review, Room of One’s Own, Dandelion and on a website called Admit Two which publishes collaborative works of writing.

 Teaching English and the school yearbook is where Patsy honed her editing skills. When she finishes her MFA in the spring, she hopes to work as a freelance copyeditor while continuing to work on her own writing.

 Patsy lives near Celista on Shuswap Lake.

New books by group authors

Lisa McCauley will be presenting her new book
                                      Nobody Told Me It Would Be Like This
    learn more at her web site  http://www.lisamccauley.com

Garry Gottfriedson's new book, Whiskey Bullets, published by Ronsdale Press

Margaret Robertson's The Essence of Teaching