CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Clinton Morrison will be the featured reader at the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild open mic on Thursday, Feb. 13.
The event takes place at 7 p.m. at Receiver Coffee Co, 128 Richmond St. in Charlottetown.
Morrison was born in Conway in 1948 and was educated in a one-room public school before attending O’Leary Regional High School in 1962.
He is an education and history graduate from Prince of Wales College and UPEI. He also taught in Island school from 1968 to 2003. In 1997, he established Crescent Isle Publishers in Summerside.
Morrison has been researching, writing, editing and publishing books on P.E.I. history, genealogy and poetry sine 1975 and is the recipient of numerous major awards — the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation’s Award of Honour in 1985; the museum’s Mary Cornfoot Brehaut Award in 1996; and, a certificate of commendation from the American Association for State and Local History in 1985.
He has contributed short stories and poetry to West Prince Arts Council publications and has written several articles for The Island Magazine. He is also the author or general editor of 12 books on Island history.
All are welcome to this free event. The first 10 writers to sign up may read from their work — poetry or prose — for up to five minutes. Following a short break, Morrison will read.
The writers’ guild open mic series will continue to run on the second Thursday of each month.
