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Emerging Voices: A Celebration of Youth Writing
Victoria
Poet Laureate Linda Rogers will usher in the Third Annual Pacific Festival of
the Book on May 4th, 2009 with Emerging Voices, a reading of youth writing featuring
students from the Victoira region along with the young authors included in Come
Home Before Dark: Anthology of Youth Writing, edited by Mavis Andrews and
Carol Ann Sokoloff and published in conjunction with the festival in 2008. Monday, May 4, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria Gallery
G6 - 1001 Douglas Street (at Broughton)
Free and Open to the Public
In
Come Home Before Dark young writers from British Columbia reflect upon
the range of human experience and emotion. From love to grief, youth to age,
regret to anticipation and pathos to humour, these profound selections by writers
aged eight to eighteen reveal the concerns on the minds of today’s youth.
War, relationships, body image, media manipulation, time and change are a few
of the themes explored through poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction in this
ground-breaking anthology.The vivid language, depth of content and imaginative scope of the writing presented demonstrates a generation with a penetrating eye for truth and awakened personal values. The young authors of Come Home Before Dark show us a world of both wonder and pain, in voices that echo with lyric freshness and uncanny wisdom.
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