CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Paul Vreeland will be the featured reader at the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild open mic on Thursday, Jan. 9, at Receiver Coffee Co., 128 Richmond St., in Charlottetown, beginning at 7 p.m.
Most of Vreeland’s creative life has been spent as a writer. His poetry has been published in several Canadian journals and in three TWiG anthologies. He has also written two chapbooks of poetry: “Hydrostone Quartet” and “Mother-in-Law Suite”, and has written of his experiences living in Haiti and West Africa in “Smoked Herring” and the “Talking Dog” published in “The Caribbean Writer”, and “Awaiting Ziafo”, a Grain Magazine creative non-fiction prize winner.
After his mother’s death, he compiled and edited a collection of her poetry, “Something Will Occur”, and in that same year published a debut novel, “I’ll Tell You One Thing”. The latter is available as a trade paperback and as an ebook from Amazon and from the Bookmark.
The late sculptor Carl Phyllis challenge Vreeland to write a piece with a happy ending, something he isn’t known for. The result was “A Buck for the Babe”, which was published in the 2015 anthology “Snow Softly Falling: Holiday Stories from Prince Edward Island”.
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 5 minutes. Following a short break, Vreeland will read.
The P.E.I. Writers’ Guild open mic series will continue to run on the second Thursday of each month.
