news
April 6, 2008
Chandra is releasing her new book, All The Pretty Girls this month with Montreal's Conundrum Press
July 18, 2006
Chandra is now on MySpace. Visit her at http://myspace.com/chandramayor.
April 23, 2005
Cherry has won The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award at the 2005 Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards. The awards honour books that evoke the special character of and contribute to the appreciation and understanding of the City of Winnipeg. For more information, please visit http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mwapa/award_shields.html.
Spring 2005
Chandra has a selection of poems published in the Spring issue of Prairie Fire, an interview and poems in the Spring issue of CV2, and a prose poem in the Spring issue of Kiss Machine.
March 2005
World Poetry Day at McNally Robinson: Read with George Amabile (Winnipeg) and Steve McOrmand (Toronto), hosted by Prairie Fire Press.
Chandra has been nominated for two Manitoba Book Awards, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. Congratulations to fellow nominees:
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction:
Sunday Afternoon by David Elias
When She’s Gone by Steve Lundin
Cherry by Chandra Mayor
4 X 4 by Wayne Tefs
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award:
A Store Like No Other: Eaton’s of Winnipeg by Russ Gourluck
When She’s Gone by Steve Lundin
Cherry by Chandra Mayor
Cherry Bites by Alison Preston
Joe From Winnipeg: All My Best by Ian Ross
Awards will be presented on April 23, 2005 at the Fort Garry Hotel.
February 2005
February 4, 2005 - Chandra read at the IV Lounge in Toronto with fellow conundrum author and performance artist Corey Frost.
February 9, 2005 - Toronto Launch of Breathing Fire 2 (edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, Nightwood Editions), at the Harbourfront Reading Series.
February 17, 2005 - McNally launch of U of W’s creative writing journal, Juice. Chandra was the featured author.
November 2004
November 18, 2004 - Reading at Mondragon with Toronto writers Emily Pohl-Weary and Jim Munroe.
November 16, 2004 - Winnipeg launch of Breathing Fire 2 at McNally Robinson.
October 2004
Chandra was the Winnipeg participant in the national Random Acts of Poetry project, sponsored by AbeBooks. She read in the Shops of Winnipeg Square, the Leg, bars, streets, youth hostels, Osborne Village, and anywhere people would listen! She was featured on CBC’s The Afternoon Edition, Terry MacLeod’s morning show, and The Afternoon Edition.
September 2004
Chandra was a featured reader and presenter at the Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival. She hosted the school daytime stages, conducted workshops at Red River College, and participated in a panel hosted by Noah Richler, with fellow writers Alissa York, Meira Cook, and David Elias.
July 2004
Participated as a reader/presenter at MacDonald Youth Services Summer Outreach program.
June 2004
Attended the League of Canadian Poets AGM in Montreal, where she stepped down as Manitoba representative, handing the reins into the capable hands of Maurice Mierau
With R.M. Vaughn, Chandra was a featured reader at the annual Winnipeg Pride Coffee House.
April, 2004
April 23, 2004 - Chandra has been awarded the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer at the 2004 Brave New Words Manitoba Writing and Book Publishing Awards. Past winners include Elise Moore, Miriam Toews, Alissa York, and Ian Ross. Congratulations go out to fellow nominees David Annandale, Nathan Duek, Greg Jackson-Davis, and Rick Ranson.
The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer is an annual award established by the Manitoba Arts Council Foundation with a bequest from the late John Hirsch, co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and its first Artistic Director from 1958 to 1966. The endowment from the Hirsch estate will provide a cash award of $2,500 to the most promising Manitoba writer selected by a jury of senior members of the Manitoba writing and publishing community. Manitoba writers in all genres are eligible.
March 2004
March 29, 2004 - Cherry is currently enjoying its second week on the on the McNally
Robinson Bestseller list. After being at #1, it's now sitting at #6. Good friend Jon Paul Fiorentino's Hello Serotonin is #7.
Chandra is planning the League of Canadian Poets' Fundraiser, (W)rites of Spring,
on April 20 at the Academy Coffee Company (414 Academy), 7pm. The evening will feature readings by Maurice Mierau,
Carol Rose, Catherine Hunter, and Dennis Cooley. Admission is $5.
March 21, 2004 - Chandra has returned from the very successful Poetry Train,
with over a dozen readings to ethusiastic crowds in four days. The trip, which went from Manitoba to British Columbia,
included writers Jon Paul Fiorentino (Montreal, PQ), Kate
Braid (Burnaby, BC), Jay
Millar (Toronto, ON), Deborah Stiles (Great Village, Nova Scotia),
and bill bissett (Toronto, ON).
March 17, 2004 - Chandra has been shortlisted for the prestigious John
Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer is an
annual award established by the Manitoba Arts Council Foundation with a bequest from the late John Hirsch, co-founder
of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and its first Artistic Director from 1958 to 1966. Past winners have included Alissa
York, Deborah Keahey, Elise Moore, Miriam Toews and David Bergen. Finalists will be announced at the Manitoba Writing
and Publishing Awards Gala held on April 23, 2004 at the Hotel Fort Garry at 7pm.
March 14-18, 2004 - Poetry Train: Winnipeg to Prince George (with Jay Millar,
bill bissett, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Deborah Stiles and Kate Braid). Stay tuned for more details.
March 11, 2004 - 8pm at Happenings (downstairs), 272 Sherbrooke Street. Winnipeg, MB:
Launch of Cherry with Jon Paul Fiorentino. Hosted by Rosanna Deerchild, with music by DJ O.
Presented by UMFM 101.5 FM.
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