Farmers91裸聊视频� Market-goers can buy local merlot, baby carrots, sourdough bread, strawberries, Adirondack chairs, painted thank you cards, alpaca scarves and, now, books. A new pop-up bookshop featuring titles by Okanagan writers is creating a buzz as it helps readers discover the valley91裸聊视频檚 literature.
Read Local Okanagan91裸聊视频檚 stall features 52 titles by 24 writers from across the region91裸聊视频攅verything from vintage poetry collections by Sharon Thesen and the latest book of poems by John Lent to the bestselling new historical novels of Alix Hawley (All True Not A Lie) and Shelley Wood (The Quintland Sisters).
91裸聊视频淧eople are always so surprised to see that all of these books are by Okanagan writers, and it is amazing to see them all together like this,91裸聊视频� says Kate Mahaits, a Read Local Okanagan team member who runs the stall at the Vernon Farmers91裸聊视频� Market every Thursday.
Local writer and business owner Natalie Appleton came up with the idea of a pop-up bookshop featuring local literature after a trip to the Farmers91裸聊视频� Market last fall, not long after the launch of her first book, a literary travel memoir entitled I Have Something to Tell You.
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91裸聊视频淲e have so many beautiful, beautiful books by writers in this region, and yet the people who love to read and want to support local arts didn91裸聊视频檛 have an easy way to find these books,91裸聊视频� says Appleton. 91裸聊视频淭he idea has been so well-received by both readers and writers. So many of the writers got back to us within minutes saying they91裸聊视频檇 love to be a part of Read Local and we had most of our books within a week, so I think the writers were really keen to have an opportunity like this to market their books.91裸聊视频�
A strong and early supporter of Read Local Okanagan has been Vernon writer John Lent, also a former Okanagan College dean and creative writing professor. Many of the Read Local writers teach at Okanagan College or UBC Okanagan, have won awards and have national acclaim.
91裸聊视频淩ead Local gives us a way to have a stake in our own writers,91裸聊视频� says Lent. 91裸聊视频淏ack in 1991, there were around six writers living from Salmon Arm to Penticton who had published books. I now know of at least 35 professional writers who have moved here in the last 10 years. These are national writers who have a reputation outside of the Okanagan. All together, they have more than 100 merchandisable books.91裸聊视频�
Some of the pop-up bookshop91裸聊视频檚 works also feature the Okanagan and the Interior, such as The Sudden Weight of Snow by Coldstream writer Laisha Rosnau (who recently won The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) and the acclaimed Shelter by Penticton writer Frances Greenslade.
Other titles are more eclectic or experimental, such as Armstrong resident Kevin McPherson91裸聊视频檚 Circadia; Kelowna writer Sean Johnston91裸聊视频檚 Listen All You Bullets, a contemporary retelling of the western classic, Shane; or Adam Lewis Schroeder91裸聊视频檚 All-Day Breakfast, a witty literary novel about zombies. Read Local Okanagan is also featuring a single children91裸聊视频檚 book, Marshall Plays Hockey, gorgeously illustrated and written by two Vernon sisters to tell the story of an ambitious moose.
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91裸聊视频淲hatever age you are and whatever literary style you91裸聊视频檙e into91裸聊视频攐r want to try91裸聊视频攚e really do have a title you91裸聊视频檒l love,91裸聊视频� says Mahaits.
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