The Gracesprings Collective is a group of writers and artists who draw upon the strong Canadian tradition of collective support for individual achievement: whether such achievement, historically, has been the founding of Wheat Pools in the prairie provinces; the staging of new plays by theatre collectives and fringe festivals from Edmonton and Vancouver to Winnipeg and countless other communities; the performing of new music in summer festivals from Vancouver Island to the Maritimes; or the development of artists' collectives such as George Ryga's in Summerland.
And Gracesprings Collective also looks to other traditions as well - to the collective practices of the beat poets and writers of the late fifties and early sixties, for example - in its desire to promote works of the highest quality, but which might fall outside the commercial mainstream of much (though fortunately not all) contemporary publishing.
Artistic freedom and excellence are twin values upheld by the Collective, which will only promote books that have been reviewed, edited, and endorsed by an editorial board consisting of no less than all the members of the Collective. The full experience of the professional editors and writers in the Collective ensures that all Gracesprings Collective publications aspire to meet not only the highest literary standards, but the highest editorial ones as well.
Gracesprings Collective only considers invited submissions at this time. We regret that we cannot consider unsolicited manuscripts.
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picture book in fall 2010. 978-1-897476-41-3 from Simply Read Books, distributed by Raincoast Books, & illustrated by award-winning Julie Morstad.
Reading Corner
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Also new from Caroline Woodward is Singing Away the Dark, a children's
See photos from
Kay & Deanna's reading at
Banyen Books and Sound.
Read Kamloops Daily News Articles "More Water for Thirsty Souls" & "Stalking a Writer's Wild Heart".
Read the Prelude to Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski's "Stalking the Wild Heart".
click pages below
Read the Foreword to
Kay McCracken's
"A Raven In My Heart"
click pages below
Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny, a novel set in contemporary
British Columbia, based on Homer's Greek classic, The Odyssey, will be published by Oolichan Books and released in Fall 2010. Caroline Woodward returns to her Peace River roots with this long-awaited novel!
Alexander Forbes launches Oranges, a novella for
puppets Saturday, October 2nd, from 2 - 3 p.m at Chapters in Kamloops, BC.
