Royal City Literary Arts Society presents
IN THEIR WORDS with Ruth Kozak
Featuring Garry Ward/Warren Dean Fulton/Shawn Gale
Date: WEDNESDAY November 13, 2024
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: CENTENNIAL LODGE, QUEEN’S PARK, NEW WESTMINSTER
Three Feature Presenters:
Garry Ward presents Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Shawn Gale presents Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
American short story writer, journalist, poet, Civil War veteran (1842 – 1914)
Warren Dean Fulton presents Michael McClure
American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist (1932 – 2020)
In Their Words
Host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday, August 29
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
New Westminster Public Library
DOWNSTAIRS Room
Three Feature Presenters:
Jessica Lee McMillan reads Rebecca Elson
(Canadian astronomer and writer)
SheLa Nefertiti Morrison reads Sy Montgomery
(Naturalist and non-fiction author, “The Soul of an Octopus”)
Alan Girling reads Mark Strand
(Canadian-American poet and essayist)
Bios:
Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a poet and teacher with an English MA and creative writing certificate from SFU’s The Writer’s Studio. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, The Humber Literary Review, Funicular, Pinhole Poetry, Rose Garden Press, QWERTY, and The New Quarterly. Jessica was a finalist for The Fiddlehead’s 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest. She won the 2022 Royal City Literary Arts Society Write On! Contest for poetry and has received poetry nominations for the Pushcart and Best of the Net. She lives on the land of the Halkomelem-speaking Peoples with her little family and large dog.
SheLa Nefertiti Morrison is a writer and poet who has published poetry, journalism, interviews and essays in various publications including Aesthetica, Room, On SPEC, The Toronto Star, The Georgia Straight and Reader’s Digest. She has been shortlisted for the Winston Collins/Descant Best Canadian Poem twice.
alan girling lives in Richmond, British Columbia. His writings have appeared in print, online, on the radio, and in the occasional shop window. He’s won a few prizes for poetry and fiction and has had a short play produced. He regularly publishes his poetry at his Substack newsletter called man of aran: https://alangirling.substack.com/
RCLAS presents In Their Words
with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday March 14, 2024
Time: 7:00pm to 9pm
Free to attend
Everyone welcome.
Location: #IheartNewWestCommunity Art Space
Unit 103 – 78 10th Street, New Westminster
Columbia Square plaza, (across from Cockney Kings
Look for the hearts in the windows)
Three Feature Presenters:
Judith Berlin presents Uvavnuk
(an Inuk woman born in the 19th century, shaman and oral poet)
Franci Louann presents Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
Prayers from the Ark translated by Rumer Godden
(French poet, October 9, 1919 – September 23, 1995)
Rhiannon Wallace presents Julio Cortázar
Cronopios and Famas translated by Paul Blackburn
(an Argentine, naturalised French novelist/short story writer/essayist/ translator/
Aug 26, 1914 – Feb 12, 1984)
Thank you to City of New Westminster, New West Artists and Edgar Development.
THURS OCT 26, 7 to 9
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Halloween Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Time: 7:00pm to 9pm
Free to attend
Everyone welcome.
Location: #IheartNewWest Community Art Space
Unit 103 – 78 10th Street, New Westminster
Columbia Square plaza, (across from Cockney Kings
Look for the hearts in the windows)
Feature Presenters:
Lesley Hebert reads Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart”
J.G. Chayko reads Anne Rivers Siddons “The House Next Door”
PLUS
A SPECIAL ALL HALLOW’S EVE OPEN MIC
Bring a poem or a spooky story excerpt to share – if you dare!
Wear a costume if you care!
FREE ONLINE ZOOM EVENT.
Everyone welcome.
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday March 16, 2023
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time
Zoom room opens at 06:50 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
Franci Louann presents Pam Ayres (British poet/comedian/songwriter/entertainer)
Cynthia Sharp presents Dorothy Wordsworth (English author, poet, and diarist/sister of William Wordsworth)
Janene White presents Farley Mowat (Iconic Canadian writer, “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be”)
FREE ONLINE ZOOM EVENT.
Everyone welcome.
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday January 19, 2023
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time
Zoom room opens at 06:50 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
You can also contact Ruth Kozak via Facebook.
Three Feature Presenters:
Janene White presents Farley Mowat (Iconic Canadian writer, “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be”)
Franci Louann presents Pam Ayres (British poet, comedian, songwriter and entertainer)
Sylvia Taylor presents Emily Carr (Renowned Canadian artist and writer)
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday November 17, 2022
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time
Three Feature Presenters
Kyle Hawke presents Joni Mitchell
(Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter)
Jude Neale presents Lorna Crozier
(Canadian Poet)
Ruth Kozak presents Mary Renault
(English Historical Novelist)
Zoom room opens at 06:50 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
You can also connect with Ruth Kozak via Facebook.–
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday March 17, 2022
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time
Three Feature Presenters:
Karen Schauber presents Lorette C. Luzajic (Flash Fiction Writer, Poet, Mixed Media Artist)
Janice McIntyre Martin presents Anne Sexton (Contemporary American poet (1928-1974))
Jerena Tobiasen presents Frank McCourt (Pulitzer Prize winning Irish-American author of Angela’s Ashes)
Zoom room opens at 06:50 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
You can also contact Ruth Kozak via Facebook.
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday January 20, 2022
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time
Feature Presenters:
Isabella Mori presents Denise Mina
(Scottish crime writer and playwright.
Genres include Mystery, Historical, Comic Books)
Honey Novick presents Bob Dylan
(American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist,
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Karen Schauber presents Lorette C. Luzajic
(Flash Fiction Writer, Poet, Mixed Media Artist)
Zoom room opens at 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/604454457462139
Join us for a wonderful evening of poetry!
RCLAS presents In Their Words
Online Edition with host Ruth Kozak
Date: Thursday November 18, 2021
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time
Three Feature Presenting
Susan Lundahl presents Iona Whishaw
(Local mystery writer)
Glenn Wootton presents J.J. Green
(British-Australian sci fi author)
H.W. Bryce presents John Keats
(English Romantic lyric poet 1795-1821)
Zoom room opens at 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
To receive ZOOM link RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
You can also contact Ruth Kozak via Facebook.
RCLAS presents In Their Words
with host Ruth Kozak – Online Edition
Date: Thursday July 15, 2021
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time.
Three Feature Presenters:
Candice James presents Matthew Jose
(Contemporary American Poet, Jamaican descent)
Manolis Aligizakis presents Yannis Ritsos
(Greek poet)
Bill Arnott presents Michael Palin
“Hemingway Adventure”(English actor, comedian, writer)
Let us know on the FB event page if you would like to attend.
OR
you can RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
You will be sent the zoom link via email or Facebook messaging.
If you are interested in reading at a future session of In Their Words
contact Ruth Kozak via email –
wynnbexton2 AT gmail DOT com
RCLAS presents In Their Words
with host Ruth Kozak – Online Edition
Date: Thursday May 20, 2021
Time: 7:00pm Pacific Time.
Three Feature Presenters:
Ruth Hill presents the “Theme of Trust in Poetry”
Angela Kenyon presents Welsh novelist Sarah Waters
and Victorian Era Fiction
Warren Dean Fulton presents Jack Kerouc
and a Tribute to the Beat Poets
Zoom room opens at 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
Let us know on the event page if you would like to attend.
OR
you can RSVP by email to secretary@rclas.com
You will be sent the zoom link via email or Facebook messaging.
Zoom room opens at 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada).
Let us know on the event page if you would like to attend.
Facebook link: https://fb.me/e/3nSQbeosu
OR you can RSVP by email to secretary AT rclas DOT com.
You will be sent the zoom link via email or Facebook messaging.
At previous In Their Words evenings
Sunday April 2
Carol Narod – reads Thomas Hardy (literary fiction)
Kyle McKillop – reads Patrick Lane (poetry)
Sylvia Symons – reads Evelyn Lau (poetry / creative non-fiction)
Sana Ziist Janjua – reads Eduardo Galeano (social commentary)
Valerie Adolph read Emily Carr – memoir
Aidan Chafe read Jeffrey McDaniel – poetry
Barbara Jean read Raymond Carver – literary fiction
November 15th, 2016
Bill Marles reads B. Traven – adventure fiction
Murray Hill reads Laurie Anderson – song lyrics
Shula Klinger reads Meg Rosoff – young adult fiction
George Chris Michas reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge – poetry
September 20th, 2016
Don Hauka reads Patrick O’Brien – historical adventure
Franci Louann reads George Elliott Clarke – poetry
Mohamad Kebbewar reads Edward Said – cultural criticism
SheLa Nefertiti Morrison reads Karen Connelly – literary fiction
July 19th, 2016
Christopher Hamilton read Joseph Campbell – non-fiction
Nasreen Pejvack read Romain Rolland – fiction & non-fiction
Bernice Lever read Dorothy Livesay – poetry
Toni Levi read Margaret Atwood – Canadian literary fiction
May 17th, 2016: the launch of In Their Words
Jonathan Coté read Jane Jacobs – non-fiction: urban studies
Alan Hill read Mordecai Richler – Canadian literary fiction
Ruth Kozak read Mary Renault – historical fiction
Lilija Valis read Osip Mandelstam – Russian poetry
Britta Poschenrieder read Neil Gaiman – fantasy fiction
rclas.com 