Spotlight on Richard Lemm Nov. 8
Richard Lemm will be the featured reader for the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild Open Mic on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Receiver Coffee Co., 128 Richmond St. in Charlottetown.
Lemm has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Prince Edward Island since 1988.
He has published six poetry collections, most recently “Jeopardy”. He received the Canadian Authors’ Association Poetry Prize for “Prelude to the Bacchanal”, and two CBC Literary Competition prizes of poetry. His short fiction collection, “Shape of Things to Come”, won a P.E.I. Book Award.
His biography “Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger” received a P.E.I. Heritage Foundation Award. He edited “Riptides: New PEI Fiction”, an Atlantic Book Awards finalist for Best Atlantic Canadian Published Book, and winner of a P.E.I. Book Award. He also edited “Snow Softly Falling: Holiday Stories” from Prince Edward Island.
He is currently completing a memoir entitled “Promised Land: Life and Times of an AmericanCanadian”, and fumbling his way into a novel set mostly on P.E.I.
His grandchildren say that he makes the best waffles.
All are welcome to this free event. The first 10 writers to sign up may read from their work — poetry or prose — for up to fiveminutes. This month the featured reader perform first. Following a five minute break, the open mic portion of the evening will begin.
The P.E.I. Writers’ Guild Open Mic Series will continue to run on the second Thursday of each month.