Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture News Archive
![David Barber, Rh Award](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unimdf151029-48_edit-150x150.jpg)
Faculty and alumni appointed to Order of Canada
January 3, 2017 —
Gov. Gen. David Johnston recently announced new appointments to the Order of Canada
![Steven Ross Smith is a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and also a noted sound and performance poet.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Steve-Ross-Smith_cropped-150x150.jpg)
What is the sound of one performance poet reading?
September 23, 2016 —
The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture is excited to welcome a new writer-in-residence for the fall term. He is Steven Ross Smith, a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, but also a noted sound and performance poet
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New Writer-In-Residence explores consumerism, ethics and culture
January 18, 2016 —
Jeanne Randolph is known as engaging lecturer and performance artist whose unique vocal soliloquies―ranging from cat curating to architecture to boxing to Barbie Dolls to Wittgenstein―have been delivered in universities across the globe
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Icelander shares the wisdom of traditional Anishinaabeg teacher Garry Raven
February 6, 2015 —
Introducing a new book
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