Posted: May 26, 2009
Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, June 6-7.
Join Feathertale at the Midwest's largest literary event! This outdoor festival offers the opportunity to hear authors speak and debate their works. It also features unique booksellers, poetry readings, exhibitors, kids activities, cooking demos, wine tastings, and much more. For more information please visit the official website.

This just in from Feathertale News:
You’re invited to the official launch party of



Who: You
What: Party
When: Friday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Czehoski, Third Floor, 678 Queen Street West, Toronto
Why: Because the blue monkey only comes out once or twice a year

Special instructions: Contributors are requested to arrive as near to 7:30 p.m. as possible for a meet and greet with editorial staff. We suspect that by 9:00 p.m. the third floor will be just about ready to collapse under the girth of our numbers.

Posted: May 01, 2009
Richard Taylor will be offering two Creative Writing Workshops this summer. 1) At Carleton University, Tuesday evenings 6-9 p.m. May 12 to August 18. 2) The fourth annual: "Write By The Lake" summer writers retreat during the last week of July at a private Quebec lake 30 minutes from Ottawa. For more info please check: www.taylorswave.ca.

Posted: April 16, 2009
Feathertale co-creators Lee Wilson and Brett Popplewell have produced the third installment in their best-selling anti-bullying comic book series:
The MISadventures of Bully-Boy & Gossip-Girl. Printed by the Toronto Star and endorsed by the Canadian Teachers Federation, the latest issue in the Bully-Boy series presents tips to combat cyber-bullying and other forms of harassment. The Canadian Teachers Federation has endorsed the new book as appropriate curriculum material for grades 4 to 8. Check out www.bullyboy.ca for more details or to place an order.

Posted: April 16, 2009
Feathertale editor Brett Popplewell has been named Ontario-based author for the month of April by the Chapters/Indigo book chain for his recent work on The MISadventures of Bully-Boy & Gossip-Girl and for his continuing contributions to Feathertale.com, The Feathertale Review, The Egregious and the Toronto Star. To learn more follow this link.

Posted: April 16, 2009
Lee Wilson, Feathertale's art director, has returned from his three month adventure in Thailand and Cambodia. We are happy to report that he shows no symptoms of Dengue fever, Malaria or Bangkok-belly.

Posted: April 16, 2009
Feathertale poetry editor Corina Milic has won the Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize. Administered by the Canadian Newspaper Association, and awarded annually to two Canadian journalists between the ages of 20-25 for excellence in reporting. Corina, a former reporter with The Sault Star, was selected by a panel of judges for stories including a series following youth in the struggling town of Wawa, Ontario; a story about hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (the real-life inspiration for the film Hotel Rwanda) for which she put her experience as a reporter in Rwanda to good use; and for her coverage of a young child's drowning at a local pool in which she pieced together the final moments of the boy's life while examining city pool protocols. She will collect her award in Montreal at this year's National Newspaper Awards in May.