Wordsmiths
Sudbury’s Poet Laureate
Tom Leduc has been chosen by the selection committee as the successful candidate.
Tom works for Wajax Industrial Components by day and has been developing his writing and poetry in his spare time over the past seven years. He started submitting his work to local publishers in recent years and in 2012 won the Vale Living with Lakes Centre poetry contest with his poem “My Northern Lake”. Tom is a member of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild and as a representative of the Guild, performed a collection of poems at Sudbury’s very first Wordstock Festival.
He also regularly contributes to the Library’s monthly poetry nights hosted at the Main Library. He is planning, as part of his legacy project for this position, to work with young people in the community and encourage and support children and youth with writing and poetry.
From the Greater Sudbury Public Library Site
Tom spends time each month in the library, where he is available to meet with the public to discuss writing, upcoming events and other poetry-related projects.
His office is located at the Main Public Library. You can reach Tom by email at [email protected] or by calling 705-673-1155 ext. 4761.
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Writer Groups/Support
Sudbury Writers’ Guild
The Sudbury Writers’ Guild meets the last Thursday of the month from September to May, except December. The meetings are held from 6:30 pm until approx 8:30 pm at the Parkside Centre, Room “B” at the YMCA located at 140 Durham Street, Sudbury. Doors to the meeting room are open at 6pm to allow for networking before the meeting.
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Greater Sudbury Public Library – 705.673.1155
74 MacKenzie Street, Sudbury, ON, P3C 4X8
Contact: Jessica Watts
[email protected]
Website: www.sudbury.library.on.ca
The Greater Sudbury Public Library has display cases available to display your artwork, pottery, crafts, collections, etc. The display cabinets are at the Main, South, New Sudbury, Lively, Valley and Garson branches. They may be booked for your work, free of charge.
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Manitoulin Writers’ Circle – 705.282.1714
Contact: Margo Little
P.O. Box 79
Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island P0P 1H0
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.margolittle.com
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Northern Playwrights – 705-858-0715
P.O. Box 905, Capreol, ON, P0M 1H0
Email: [email protected]
https://www.northernplaywrights.piczo.com
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The Writer’s Circle – 705.675.3501 #8286
NISA – Northern Initiatives for Social Action
680 Kirkwood Drive, Bldg 2
Fax: 705-675-3501
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.nisa.on.ca
The Writers; Circle provides the opportunity for consumers to have a voice and a means of self-expression – to develop their writing talents, whether for pleasure, publication or both.
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Editors/ Publishers
Prise de parole inc. – 705-675-6491
Adresse: 109, rue Elm, bureau 205, Sudbury, ON, P3C 1T4
C.P. 550, Sudbury, ON, P3E 4R2
Telecopieur: (705) 675-6491
Couriel: [email protected]
Mots cles: auteur, livre, franco-ontarien, canadien-francais, literature
Historique: Fondees a Sudbury, en Ontario, en 1973, les Editions Prise de parole se consacrent essentiellement a la publication d’oeuvres litteraires. Les collections de la maison comprennent le roman et la nouvelle, la poesie, le theatre, l’essai et l’etude en sciences humaines et sociales. Egalement, la maison publie du materiel pedagogique dans le domaine des arts d’expression et de la creativite. La maison d’edition collabore activement a la resolution de defies en matiere de distribution et de diffusion de livres sur le territoire canadien-francais.
In 2012, Prise de parole won a Community Builders’ Award for the Arts. The following article was published by Northern Life.
The city may have a beer, bingo and porketta image in most of English Canada, but as a result of an awakening of Franco-Ontarian artists in the 1970s, Sudbury has become the epicentre of Franco-Ontarian music, theatre, art and literature. During the “CANO” period, the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel Ontario (Artists’ Cooperative of Northern Ontario) gave birth to Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, La Nuit sur l’étang, the progressive rock band CANO, and the publishing house Prise de parole.Today Prise de parole is the oldest of the few French publishing houses in Canada outside of Quebec. This small publishing house has a national and international reputation. Its authors such as Robert Dickson and Estelle Beauchamp have won numerous prestigious literary awards including five Governor General’s Awards and three Trillium Awards.
Over the past four decades Prise de parole has validated Franco-Ontarian literature, publishing the work of more than 150 authors and some 325 titles in fiction, poetry, drama and essays.
These books are studied in schools, colleges and universities, and are available in public libraries. While distribution is always challenging, the Prise de parole catalogue can be purchased on the internet. Out-of-print books are available as e-books which further protects and enriches Franco-Ontarian cultural heritage for future generations.
“Thanks to Prise de parole, (Franco-Ontarian) voices are published, distributed, promoted and celebrated all over the country and the world,” says Guylaine Tousignant, executive director of the biannual book festival, Salon de livre du Greater Sudbury.
“Prise de parole has also helped make the Sudbury artistic community better by supporting and encouraging emerging authors to write in the hopes of being published and read,” she says.
Denise Truax has been executive director of the publishing house since 1988. A CEO with an artist’s sensibilities, she refers to authors as “voices.”
Many of the authors have set their stories in Sudbury, imprinting its colourful personality on readers, and acting as an unofficial ambassador, adds Truax.
The not-for-profit organization has a full-time staff of three and is overseen by a board of directors.
Prise de parole played a key role in the creation of Salon du livre. The book festival will be held in 2012 from May 10 to 13 at the Radisson Hotel. In recent years almost 30,000 book lovers from throughout northeastern Ontario have attended the event which featured as many as 100 authors and 150 events for children.
Prise de parole has played a major role in defining Sudbury as one of the French literary capitals of Canada,” says Tousignant.
Surviving in the precarious world of publishing is an achievement in itself; successfully publishing the work of French-language writers outside of Quebec is something of a miracle.
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Scrivener Press – 705.522.5126
465 Loach’s Road, Sudbury, ON, P3E 2R2
Fax: 705-522-5126
Publisher / regional / Northeastern ON authors
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Individuals
Sean Costello (born 1951 in Ottawa, he is a Canadian author of horror fiction and an anesthesiologist living in Sudbury, Ontario His first three novels, published in North America by Pocket Books, have been released in the UK by Tor Books and translated into Dutch, German and Russian. Finders Keepers and Sandman were published by Red Tower Publications, and Finders Keepers has been optioned to film. Here After, the author’s latest novel from Your Scrivener Press, is currently in its second printing. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
- New book Squall, published October 2014
- Eden’s Eyes (1989)
- The Cartoonist (1990)
- Captain Quad (1991)
- Finders Keepers (2002)
- Sandman (2003)
- Here After (2008)
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Chalk, Anthony
Email: [email protected]
Poetry, essays, book reviews and more
Campbell, Heather
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Kruzel, Hugh freelance writer, [email protected], 705.522.4358
Educator, writer, project manager
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Gagnon, Paulette – 705.675.5894
E-mail: [email protected]
Paulette Gagnon oeuvre dans le secteur des arts et de la culture depuis 30 ans. De retour à Sudbury après une absence de 15 ans, au cours de laquelle elle a oeuvré au Conseil des Arts de l’Ontario, au Centre national des Arts du Canada et à l’Association des théâtres francophones du Canada, elle dédie aujourd’hui ses énergies à des projets majeurs du secteur culturel sudburois, dont la création d’une Place des Arts au centre-ville, initiative du Regroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury (ROCS).
Paulette Gagnon has been active in the Arts and Culture sector for 30 years. Back in Sudbury after a 15-year absence, during which she strived at the Ontario Arts Council, the National Arts Centre and the Association des théâtres francophones du Canada, today she dedicates herself to major projects of the Sudbury cultural sector such as the creation of a “Place des arts” in the downtown by the Regroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury (ROCS).
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Gilhula, Vicki, journalist and editor
President of Sudbury Arts Council
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Hart, Benita, writer, broadcaster
Email: [email protected]
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Leuschen, Janice – 705.692.3088
Janice Leuschen…finding the right words
10 Kristi Court
Lively, ON P3Y 1B2
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McLachlan Darling, Amanda
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Lalonde, Randolph
Fantasy and Adventure novels for all
Begin the journey at www.fatecycle.com
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Michaels, Courtney Lynn
Box 893, Sudbury, ON, P3E4S1
Audio children’s stories / Stewart the Bunny / Chester Chickadee
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Shepherd, Michael – 705.858.0715
19 Kelly Street
Capreol, ON P0M 1H0
Email:[email protected]
Website:www.northernplaywrights.piczo.com
Actor and playwright
Long time member of the Stratford Festival Company as a character actor. Now primarily involved in writing and domestic engineering, residing in Capreol and spending a lot of time during the winter months writing short stories, sixteen so far. Has four plays published and will look for a publisher to put together an anthology of his short stories and plays in the near future. Returned to the “boards” again when cast as “Professor Henry Higgins” in the highly successful Theatre Cambrian production of “My Fair Lady” following it up with another role for the same company as “Maurice” in “Beauty and the Beast.” Currently producing a public, staged reading of his new play “The Starry Bridge.” It will be a multi-media production with the spoken word, illustrated slides, poetry and choral presentations.
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Staude, Rolf – 705.527.5930
P.O. Box 312, 797 Jane Blvd.
Midland ON L4R 4L1
Email: [email protected]
Author/Painter/Volunteer/Teacher
Artist, mainly painting landscapes and historical scenes, working as a volunteer and writing. My next book is going into the scariest times of my youth in Germany.