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Alberta Literary Awards Gala & Writers Guild of Alberta Conference

Co-editors Dymphny Dronyk and Bob Stallworthy are really excited to be attending the Alberta Literary Awards Gala and the Writers Guild Conference June 8 – 10, 2012, in Calgary. Congratulations to Alberta poets Tim Bowling, Rosemary Griebel, and Michael Penny for being short-listed for the 2012 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Yes. by Rosemary […]

Edmonton “A Balanced Brunch” Event – Today at 1:30 pm

We hope you have enjoyed the poetry of Alexis Kienlen, Diane Buchanan, Peter Midgley, and Pierrette Requier this week, and we hope that you will join them at today’s “Balanced Brunch” event: Edmonton “A Balanced Brunch” Event: Sunday, April 29, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Fort Saskatchewan Public Library, 10011-102 Street, Fort Saskatchewan, AB FREE […]

Calgary “A Balanced Brunch” Event – Today at 11 am

We hope you have enjoyed the poetry of Vivian Hansen, Richard Harrison, Micheline Maylor, and Tyler B. Perry this week, and we hope you will join them at today’s “Balanced Brunch” event: Calgary “A Balanced Brunch” Event: Sunday, April 22, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Central Library, John Dutton Theatre, 616 Macleod Trail SE FREE […]

Celebrate National Poetry Month

We are celebrating National Poetry Month in partnership with the Calgary Spoken Word Festival and the Edmonton Poetry Festival with two events this month. We hope you will join us! As part of the celebrations, blue skies poetry will also be featuring poems by participating poets in the week leading up to each event. Here […]

A note from Dymphny

[photopress:dymphny_dronyk.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Last summer when Angela and I had to suspend some of our dreams and ambitions for House of Blue Skies, our publishing venture, and blueskiespoetry.ca it broke my heart just a little, I must confess. Not having mastered the ability to clone ourselves, it was the necessary choice in lives choked with other priorities… but […]