Lovers of the written word are invited to join in the fun at the Burnaby Writers' Society's next Spoken Ink night.
The next event in the monthly reading series is set for Tuesday, Feb. 21 at La Fontana Caffe, 1013701 Hastings St. in North Burnaby.
The evening will feature special guest Leslie Michel Beckmann, an environmental scientist who lives and writes on the North Shore.
Her non-fiction has appeared in academic journals and in the popular press on topics ranging from physiology to climate change to marine conservation in Canada's Arctic.
Her short story Tortfeasor was a prize-winner in the 2011 Canada Writes competition for Creative Non-Fiction, and her short story Fingerling was short-listed for the Malahat Review's 2012 Open Season award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Her fiction has appeared in Air Canada's En Route magazine, The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Courier and Nature Canada and has also been broadcast on CBC Radio's First Person Singular.
Beckmann's first fulllength work, a thriller set on the Yucatan in the days before the Mayan "apocalypse," entitled The Sum of All Evils, was published in March 2011.
Spoken Ink evenings also include an open-mike session. To sign up for the open mike, arrive at 7: 30 p.m. Beckmann will read at 8 p.m.
The Spoken Ink series runs on the third Tuesday of each month, except July and August.
For more details about the series, see www. BurnabyWritersNews. blogspot.com or contact [email protected].
