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North Island College Write Here Readers Series Presents: A Dinner and Story Night at Zocalo Cafe on March 30th, 6.30 pm: Sharing food has always been a way for people of all cultures to relax and create a bond. Adding story-telling to a meal makes it even better. On Saturday, March 30, writers and faculty from North Island College’s English program, along with writers from the ... community, will read between each of the six-course tapas dinner offered by Zocalo Café in downtown Courtenay. The story slams are great, but a little intense. We wanted to combine the readings with something more relaxed, explains Steve Schoenhoff, who teaches creative writing at NIC. Mixing story-telling and dining seemed like a perfect combination. Think of it as a literary sandwich. Cornelia Hoogland, Anne Cumming, Derek Hanebury, Natasha Chorneyka, and Steve Hodge will read while the audience enjoys a delicious tapas menu, including mixed olives, fig anise bread with aioli, cherry tomato, pine nut, basil and Asiago tostadas, prawns in white wine and roasted garlic sauce, and pan-fried wild boar sausage, peppers and onions with balsamic vinegar. Dinner and Story Night takes place at Zocalo Café & Gallery in Courtenay. The meal is $25 per person and begins at 6:30 pm. Please call 250-331-0933 to make a reservation. For more information about the Write Here Readers Series please contact Beth Turner at 250-334-5000 extension 4267 http://www.nic.bc.ca/about_us/showfile.aspx?id=MR13-017

We just launched our new website! Looking forward to populating it with new work soon. Check it out at http://iandeyemagazine.ca/

Hello everybody, New stories are being added to the magazine. Go visit it and enjoy!

Merville Flash Fiction Contest Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon and the dog Snoopy on his doghouse with a typewriter? He was writing a novel starting with the classic "It was a dark and stormy night." Here is your chance to achieve the same lofty literary level. Sharpen your pencils, boot up your device and enter the Merville Flash Fiction Contest. The first line of this story is At the end of another dull day, I (he/she) found a wallet on the floor... of the ferry and you have to write your story from thatcan be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoir; just has to start with that first line. A 250 word limit which is approximately one page double spaced. All entries will be judged by a panel of local writers and a short list of ten made. Those ten will read at The Big Yellow Merville Hall at a free evening performance on April 5, 7:30 pm. The audience will have ballots and vote for their favourite story. The first place winner will be published locally and all short listed authors will win a prize. Send your entries to [email protected] with Flash Fiction Entry in the subject line. Deadline is March 31, so get writing!

Three-hours fiction contest will be announced on December 21, 2013 on the website.

Go visit the website, we have a bunch of new things on including an interview with author Renee Shaklikar, images from the Trades building and a video of animations by students in FIN 201 Video + Sound 2.

Tonight November 15 there will be a faculty reading, 8:00 pm at Zocalo cafe to raise money for the Creative Writing Scholarship fund.