This month is Libraries Inspire, and the Thompson Public Library is inspiring people through literacy. On Oct. 9, the Thompson Writers' Guild presented a reading of their anthology “An Unkindness of Ravens.”
The guild was founded in 2012, and now has over 73 members, ranging from Thompson all the way to Selkirk. The motto for the group is “Writers helping writers, achieve their writing goals,” says Amanda Holt, member of the guild.
“Within these pages we aspire not only to carry you away for a few hours, to a land of suspense, the supernatural, and to give you an escape from the rituals of your daily life, we are also hoping to spook you a little. Just enough to make you wonder about the things that go walking in the night in Northern Manitoba.”
Fay Wolfe, a 14-year-old member of the guild read an insert of her entry “The Black Ribbon”, and her mother Angela Wolfe read from her submission, about the importance of a winter survival kit, on Highway 6.
An Unkindness of Ravens will be released to the public on Oct. 18, at the Thompson Public Library. The guild will be having a book launch following story time that day, from 12:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Books will be $15 a copy, with a limited amount of hardcopies available at the launch, and e-books are just over one dollar, and can be found on Amazon.
“As our reader, we hope you will enjoy the experience of these stories, and this cornucopia of creepy, creeping, and downright gruesome selection we have prepared for you,” says Holt.
The more mature content is featured in the back of the book, following the poetry, and youth submissions, appear first. The guild is hoping to release their second anthology in the spring or summer of 2015.
