Maybe it took a creative mind. Creative writing major Laryssa Brooks was one of a minority of entrants to get all the answers right in yesterday’s DailyNews contest—and her name was the only one drawn from a hat to choose the winner.
To the victor will go the spoils: a prize package of a mini padfolio, a small notebook, a keychain, a pen and a beautiful desktop clock, all bearing the UWindsor logo.
Relationships are at the heart of two books being launched tonight by Black Moss Press.
Talking Derby, by Kate Hargreaves, explores a young woman’s love affair with her roller skates, and the poetry collection Whisky Sour City, edited by Vanessa Shields, brings together works by Windsor poets to reveal their tangled ties with the city.
Windsor’s poet laureate Marty Gervais will have words with UWindsor writer-in-residence Phil Hall on Thursday, but don’t worry—it’s all in the interests of art.
Both graduates of the University of Windsor, Gervais (MA 1972) and Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) will discuss the latter’s work as part of the “Having Words” series of author talks hosted by the Arts Council Windsor and Region. The series promotes informal discussion about the craft of writing, exploring the challenges and joys related to poetry; events are free and open to the public.
George Bowering, one of Canada’s foremost poets, will deliver a free public reading on Tuesday, March 12, 10 a.m. in Vanier Hall’s Oak Room.
Also a prolific fiction writer, editor, and literary critic, Bowering has authored more than 100 books and garnered numerous distinctions including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry, 1969; Governor-General’s Award for Fiction, 1980; bp Nichol Chapbook award for poetry, 1991 and 1992; Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Poetry, 1993; Officer of the Order of Canada, 2002; Parliamentary Poet Laureate, 2002.
A free public reading of his work will introduce writer-in-residence Phil Hall to the campus community, Thursday, March 7, at 2:30 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium’s Salon A.
Hall, a UWindsor alumnus (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978), has begun a one-month appointment in the English department. Killdeer, a book of poems and essays, won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, an Alcuin Design Award, and was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
It was painter Mara Korkola who first suggested to a less-than-certain Ray Robertson that he should take up writing as a full-time vocation. Six novels, two pieces of non-fiction and more than a few literary accolades to his name later, he’s now grateful that he followed his partner’s advice.
The past is the perfect present, says Chris Edwards.
The UWindsor grad (BA 1983, MA 1985) and his life and business partner Elaine Weeks (BA 1985) have already sold 4,000 copies of their nostalgic coffee table book, 500 Ways You Know You’re From Windsor. They will sign copies as a pre-holiday promotion at the University Bookstore kiosk in the CAW Student Centre on Wednesday, December 12, from noon to 2 p.m.
Stephen Pender loves literature.
That might seem like a fairly obvious statement for an English professor to make, but according to an article recently published in University Affairs magazine, many literary scholars have become ambivalent about their 
raison d’être.
The University of Windsor will host a book signing by local authors—and UWindsor alumni—Peter Hrastovec and Marty Gervais, from noon to 1:30 p.m. today in its Vanier Hall location.
First-time author Hrastovec (BA 1979, LLB 1982) will sign his poetry collection In Lieu of Flowers. The paperback volume costs $17.
The University’s plans for its downtown campus cleared another hurdle Monday, as Windsor city council approved a change in the zoning of the Windsor Star, armouries and bus depot sites from commercial to institutional.
