Flywheel Reading Series

Flywheel Reading Series is a FREE monthly reading event curated by filling Station Magazine. It is held the 2nd Thursday of the month at Pages Books on Kensington in Calgary, Alberta, 1135 Kensington Road NW. Flywheel has been running since 1996. It's a diverse series that welcomes the participation of writers of all kinds of literature; however, like filling Station Magazine, we are especially interesting in innovative and original work. After the reading, why not join us for a drink at Molly Malone's down the street?

If you're interested in reading for Flywheel, please email Meghan Doraty, Flywheel Coordinator at flywheel.fs@gmail.com

MEDIA RELEASE: December Flywheel

Thursday, December 15, 7:30 pm
Pages Books on Kensington, 1135 Kensington Rd NW
Free
Facebook event

Join us for another monthly reading with Flywheel! Robin van Eck and Sarah Johnson share their work from the Alexandra Centre's Freshwater Pearls Anthology (Recliner Books 2011) and more, along with local poet John Creary. It’s going to be a great reading, so brave the snow and come on down to Pages!

We encourage you to visit http://calgaryspokenword.podbean.com for Flywheel and other Calgary literary podcasts by Raw Salvage.

*filling Station* is a Calgary-based literary & arts magazine created by writers, for writers. Produced in Calgary by a non-profit Collective dedicated to providing a voice for the best emerging poetry, fiction, literary journalism, & unusual art, *filling Station* is an exciting alternative to traditional literary magazines. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube!

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MEDIA RELEASE: Special July Flywheel: Tribute to Robert Kroetsch

July 14, 2011, 7:00 pm*
Pages Books on Kensington
1135 Kensington Road NW, Calgary



Join hosts Kye Kocher and Laurie Fuhr for July Flywheel. This special Flywheel will include both featured readings and an open mic, letting everyone share either work by Robert Kroetsch, for Robert, or otherwise related as a tribute and celebration of the memory of this wonderful man and important Canadian writer who has touched so many. *Please note earlier start time of 7:00 pm.

Featured readers TBA. If you had a special connection with Robert Kroetsch, whether you have been a student of his or are just inspired by his work, and you would like to be a feature, please email mgmt@fillingstation.ca If you know anyone who should know about this, please share. For more information about Robert's writing and accolades, the Athabasca U bio provides an okay launching point with further links: http://www2.athabascau.ca/cll/writers/english/writers/rkroetsch.php

AND don't miss our Flywheel teaser Tuesday, July 12th 8-9pm on *Writer's Block*,CJSW's weekly foray into literature. Join radio hosts Paul Kennett and Stephanie Weidmann for a special preview of some of our Flywheel readers. Be sure to tune in to *Writer's Block*, 8-9pm Tuesday evenings - you won't be disappointed! CJSW: Calgary's independent radio - 90.9 fm or http://www.cjsw.com/index.html.

We encourage you to visit http://calgaryspokenword.podbean.com for Flywheel and other Calgary literary podcasts by Raw Salvage.

*filling Station* is a Calgary-based literary & arts magazine created by writers, for writers. Produced in Calgary by a non-profit Collective dedicated to providing a voice for the best emerging poetry, fiction, literary journalism, & unusual art, *filling Station* is an exciting alternative to traditional literary magazines. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube!

Please invite your Facebook friends! Just mark yourself as Attending or Maybe Attending on the event and it will let you invite people. Here's the Facebook Event.

Flywheel is now regularly scheduled on the second Thursday of each month at Pages Books in Kensington.
 

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MEDIA RELEASE: April Flywheel!

Thursday April 14th
7:30pm
Pages Books on Kensington
1135 Kensington Road NW

Join host Meghan Doraty for the April Flywheel Reading Series with readings from local poets Beth Langford, Stuart McKay and Juliet Burgess. Gayleen Froese will be launching her new book, Grayling Cross (NeWest Press).

AND don't miss our Flywheel teaser Tuesday, April 12th 8-9pm on *Writer's Block*,CJSW's weekly foray into literature. Join radio hosts Paul Kennett and Stephanie Weidmann for a special preview of some of our Flywheel readers. Be sure to tune in to *Writer's Block*, 8-9pm Tuesday evenings - you won't be disappointed! CJSW: Calgary's independent radio - 90.9 fm or http://www.cjsw.com/index.html.

We encourage you to visit http://calgaryspokenword.podbean.com for Flywheel and other Calgary literary podcasts by Raw Salvage.

*filling Station* is a Calgary-based literary & arts magazine created by writers, for writers. Produced in Calgary by a non-profit Collective dedicated to providing a voice for the best emerging poetry, fiction, literary journalism, & unusual art, *filling Station* is an exciting alternative to traditional literary magazines. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube!

Please invite your Facebook friends! Just mark yourself as Attending or Maybe Attending on the event and it will let you invite people. Here's the Facebook Event.

**Please note change of date! Flywheel is now regularly scheduled on the second Thursday of each month at Pages Books in Kensington.

Info about the book being launched:

Grayling Cross by Gayleen Froese

Psychic Anna Gareau and public relations expert Collie Kostyna keep things quiet for local magicians and for their biggest client, an underground supernatural society known as the Embassy. In Grayling Cross, an investigator arrives in town on the trail of a missing teenage psychic, and hires Anna and Collie to be his liaisons to the local magic community. Troublingly, though, he turns out to have a knack for suppressing magic, leaving magicians powerless and vulnerable. And when an Embassy employee is found murdered in a house nobody should have been able to enter, with a weapon that never should have killed him, suspicion naturally falls upon Anna and Collie’s new client. The multi-talented Gayleen Froese is a novelist, musician, and communications professional. Having lived in Saskatoon, Toronto, and Prince Albert, she now resides in Edmonton's historic Alberta Avenue district. She has also worked as a radio writer and talk show host, an advertising creative director, and a communications officer. Froese was featured on Canadian Learning Television's A Total Write Off, and was the overall winner of BookTelevision's 3-Day Novel Contest, filmed over three days in 2007 at an Edmonton Chapters bookstore. She was also shortlisted in the overall 2007 International Three-Day Novel Contest. Her non-fiction and humour writing has appeared in publications including SEE Magazine, The Rat Creek Press, and The Session. Gayleen Froese's first novel, Touch, is part of the NeWest Nunatak First Fiction Series. The book’s sequel, Grayling Cross, will be released by NeWest in March 2011.