Series consists of digital records collected by Don Precosky and Barry McKinnon in relation to the publication of "It's Still Winter: A Web Journal of Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics". Includes digital manuscript submissions, unpublished material, and the eJournal website files (including the audio sound recordings from relevant issues). Also includes an unpublished issue #6.2 from 2003. File types include PDF, HTML, DOC, RA (RealAudio), MP3, and GIF, among others.

File contains drafts and manuscript submissions for It's Still Winter issue Vol. 5 No. 2:

• Printed submission from Shannan Cowan emailed to Don Precosky, Mar 26, 2002. Includes handwritten note on first page from Barry McKinnon
• Printed submission from Stephen Rockwell emailed to Don Precosky, Nov. 26, 2001
• Printed submission from Dennis Cooley. Includes handwritten note on first page by Don Precosky
• Printed submission of interview with rob mclennan by Donato Mancini
• Printed submission of interview with George Bowering by Donato Mancini
• Printed email exchange between Don Precosky and Dennis Cooley, June 13, 2002
• Printed submission of 7 poems from Ken Norris. Includes handwritten note by Barry McKinnon
• Printed submission from George Stanley. Includes note by Don Precosky

File contains drafts and manuscript submissions for It's Still Winter issue Vol. 3 No. 2:

• Title page for It's Still Winter Vol. 3 No. 2 Spring 2000
• Draft of "Canadian Literature on the Internet" by Don Precosky
• Printed email exchange between Jamie Reid and Don Precosky with poems attached
• Poems by Jamie Reid

File contains drafts and manuscript submissions for It's Still Winter issue Vol. 3 No. 1:

• Poem "~ an unfinished theology" by Barry McKinnon
• Poem "~ sex at 51" by Barry McKinnon
• Poems by Brad Robinson
• Email from Richard Stevenson to Don Precosky with poems attached
• Poems by Dan Lukiv
• Email from Brian Fawcett to Barry McKinnon including attached poems

File contains a printed interview of Jacqueline Baldwin conducted by Karin Peeler and Dee Horne, as well as printed email correspondence, poems, a photocopied article about Jackie Baldwin, and a floppy disk labelled "Horne/J. Baldwin Interview (Macintosh)". This interview was submitted for inclusion in It's Still Winter issue Vol. 2 No. 2.

File contains drafts and manuscript submissions for It's Still Winter issue Vol. 2 No. 2:

• "An Interview with Ken Belford"
• "Editorial" by Don Precosky
• Submissions from Kim Goodliffe, including poems "Daphne Inside", "Self-Growth Movement", "Dreams of a Suburban House", "Slugs", "Songs for Tree Planters", "Rough Poems Still In-Progress", and "Suburban Prose Poems"
• Printed image titled by Barry McKinnon, "Backs to the Future Lighthouse Park Summer - Rhoda"
• Email from Mary Duprey to Barry McKinnon with poem
• Various poems, author possibly Rhoda Rosenfeld
• Letter to Barry McKinnon from Rhoda Rosenfeld
• Partially complete contributors page for It's Still Winter dated June 17, 1999
• Poems by Jacqueline Baldwin
• Poems by Rob Ziegler
• Poems by Ken Belford. Signed and annotated by Belford
• Review of “A Murder of Crows” written by John Harris
• Poems by Greg Sainsbury [page #3 is missing]
• Poems by Donna Kane
• Poems by Rhoda Rosenfeld
• Email from Renee Rodin to Barry McKinnon including poems
• Transcript from interview with Ken Belford by Barry McKinnon
• Anonymous poems
• Poems by Ken Belford
• Note from Jacqueline Baldwin to Don Precosky
• Letter to Don Precosky from Sybille Haussler
• Poem “a walk” by Barry McKinnon

File contains contents for each "It's Still Winter" eJournal issue, complied by editor Don Precosky.

Series contains printed drafts and submissions to the eJournal "It's Still Winter: A Web Journal of Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics", which was co-published online by College of New Caledonia and the University of Northern British Columbia between 1997 and 2002. The editors of the journal were Don Precosky and Barry McKinnon.

Digital submissions are maintained in the 2024.2.3 Digital Files series.

Vol. 5 No. 1 December 2001

Contents

• Aidan Baker, Four poems
• Meryl Duprey, Three poems
• Keith Ebsary, Four poems
• Rob McLennan, Two poems
• Glen Sorestad, Five poems
• George Stanley, Five Excerpts from "Vancouver Book I

Vol. 4 No. 2 May 2001

Contents

• Don Precosky An Email Interview with Ken Norris
• Kathleen Donovan, Three poems
• Christopher Ewart, Poems
• Laurie Fuhr, Poems
• G.P. Lainsbury, "Vision of the North"
• Jeanette Lynes, Three Poems
• Barry McKinnon, "writing on the ridge"

Vol. 4 No. 1

Contents

• Stephen Brockwell, "Compulsive in the Public Library"
• Meryl Duprey, Two Poems
• Brian Fawcett, "The Tides are Caused by the Moon's Gravity, Not By Ours" [Essay]
• Richard Krueger, Poems from "Dirtthief"
• Rob McLennan, Four Poems
• Ross Priddle, Four Poems

Vol. 3 No. 2 Spring 2000
Feature: Turn of the Century Issue

Contents

• Barry McKinnon - It Can't
• Barry McKinnon - Millennium
• Don Precosky - Canadian Literature Sources on the Internet (Part I)
• Rob Ziegler - Luther's Legacy
• Brad Robinson - Golf and Canadian Literature
• Brad Robinson - Poetic License

Vol. 3 No. 1 December 1999
Feature: Poetry goes on

Contents

• Don Precosky, Editorial
• Brian Fawcett, "Poem for Angela Bowering"
• Richard Stevenson, from Live Evil: The Miles Davis Poems
• Brad Robinson, Three Poems
• Dan Lukiv, Two Poems
• Barry McKinnon, Two Poems

Vol. 2 No. 2 Spring 1999
Feature: Poets from BC

Contents

• Editorial by Don Precosky
• Poems by Greg Lainsbury
• Poems by Meryl Duprey
• Poems by Jacqueline Baldwin
• Dee Horne and Karin Beeler Interview Jacqueline Baldwin
• Review of Baldwin's Threadbare Like Lace by Lynda Williams
• Poems by Donna Kane
• Review of several books by John Harris
• Poems by Ken Belford
• Barry McKinnon Interviews Ken Belford
• Poems by Kim Goodliffe
• Excerpt from "Zig Zag" by Rhoda Rosenfeld
• Poem by Barry McKinnon
• Poems by Renee Rodin

Vol. 2 No. 1 Fall 1998
Feature: Montreal Memories

Contents

• Editorial: Don Precosky
• Poetry: Seven Poems by Artie Gold [including one in RealAudio format]
• Memoir: Rob Ziegler, "So Much Depends Upon a Man with a Red Goatee on a Montreal Street Corner"
• Poetry: "Isabella," a poem sequence by Ken Norris
• Memoir: Barry McKinnon, "Chairs in the Time Machine"
• Photographs: Thirteen photos of Montreal by Robert Walker. These photos have been integrated with Barry McKinnon's memoir.
• Poem: Simon Thompson, "All Apologies to L. Cohen"
• Music: Two cuts by jazz musician Peter Leitch
• Interview: Barry McKinnon and Don Precosky interview Garry Geddes

Vol 1 No. 2 Spring 1998

Contents

• Editorial: Don Precosky
• Poetry: Six New Poems by Ken Norris
• Article: "Report on Ken Norris" by Don Precosky
• Interview: Barry McKinnon Interviews George Stanley
• Poetry: Two New Poems by George Stanley
• Sound File: "For the Ladies at the Bus Stop" by Brad Robinson

Vol. 6 No. 1 Winter 2002

Contents

• George Stanley, from Vancouver
• Keith Ebsary, Four Poems
• Linda Pryce, Poems
• Barry McKinnon, Two Poems
• Ken Norris, Nine Poems

Vol. 5 No. 2 July 2002

Contents

• Aidan Baker, Three Poems
• Stephen Brockwell, Four Poems
• Meryl Duprey, Four Poems
• Ken Norris, New Poems
• Dennis Cooley, from Love in a Dry Land
• Donato Mancini, Interview with rob mclennan
• Donato Mancini, Interview with George Bowering
• George Stanley, from Vancouver
• Soundfest: Various poets in RealAudio format

Vol 1 No. 1 Fall 1997
Feature: Barry McKinnon's "The Centre": A casebook

Contents

• Introduction: Inaugural Editorial by Don Precosky
• Essay: "'He seemed to be in the centre': Barry McKinnon's 'The Centre' as postmodern document" by Don Precosky
• Interview: Cam McAlpine interviews Barry McKinnon
• Poetry: "The Centre" by Barry McKinnon

Series contains analogue reproductions of the 11 issues of the eJournal "It's Still Winter: A Web Journal of Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics", which was co-published online by College of New Caledonia and the University of Northern British Columbia between 1997 and 2002. The editors of the journal were Don Precosky and Barry McKinnon.

File consists of photographs of Ann Walsh's presentation at Mountview Elementary in Williams Lake.

File consists of photographs relating to Ann Walsh's literary career, as well as her Banff Centre membership card.

File consists of Ann Walsh's correspondence with the BC Ministry of Education regarding Arts Starts, the provincial literacy plan, and BC writers.

File consists of Ann Walsh's certificate of appointment to the Library Foundation of British Columbia board.

Includes correspondence and notes.

Includes correspondence and an event report pertaining to Ms. Walsh's trip to Sweden as a representative Canadian author (along with Robertson Davies and Sylvia Fraser) at the Bok and Bibliotek Book Fair in Goteborg, Sweden, Sept. 6-10, 1989.

Includes conference agendas, related correspondence, workshop proposals, expense claims, reading tour schedules, and event notices.

Includes reports written by Ann Walsh for the Canadian Children's Book Centre on Book Week activities, itineraries, related correspondence.

Includes workshop speaking notes, Shushwap Lake Writers' Festival programme, and a list of writing tips from B.C. Children's writers.

Includes workshop handouts as well as workshop speaking notes.

Includes workshop notes, various speaking notes including University College of the Cariboo Convocation Address (May 1994), a few workshop handouts.

Includes grant applications, project proposals and related correspondence.

Includes correspondence between Ann Walsh and some of her fans, as well as some letters of reference written for her in support of her grant applications.

Includes correspondence between Ann Walsh and Robin Skelton, Bill Bissett, Shirlee Smith Matheson, Dave Jenkinson, W.P. Kinsella, Todd Lee, Laurence Gough, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Jan Drabec, Mark Leiren-Young, Gail Whitter, Peter Gzowski, Lynne Bowen, Constance Horne, Norma Charles, Bev Brenna, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Nancy Oswald, David A.E. Spalding, and Penny Dickens.

Series consists of records relating to Ann Walsh's activities in relation to her literary career. Walsh led and participated in writing-related events such as writer's talks, workshops, readings, and tours. Records include correspondence, handouts, speaking notes, and photographs in relation to these events. Also includes grant applications, correspondence with other writers, and correspondence with readers.

File consists of studio portraits of Ann Walsh and other snapshots photographs of Ann Walsh for publicity purposes.

Includes 2 VHS video cassettes:

• 2019.12.01.78.01: "Wandering Canada, Programme 3: featuring Ann Walsh" (no date)
• 2019.12.01.78.02: "Young Author's Conference - Ann Walsh, Smithers, BC, April 1986"

Includes 5 standard audio cassettes:

• 2019.12.3.12.01: "Your Time, My Time recorded by Ann" (120min),
• 2019.12.3.12.02: "Ann's Interviews: various CBC interviews/shows, 1989-2003"- this tape consists of author interviews as well as recordings of Walsh's shows for CBC Radio's Almanac program. (180 min),
• 2019.12.3.12.03: "Ann Walsh Hits #3: CBC Almanac shows, 1993-1994" - this tape consists of recordings of Walsh's shows for CBC Radio's Almanac program. (180min),
• 2019.12.3.12.04: Home audio recording of Ann Walsh on CBC,
• 2019.12.3.12.05: Home audio recording of Ann Walsh on CBC

Includes event programmes and posters, news clippings, book reviews, publisher's catalogues, and 1 colour photograph featuring a sock monkey hanging onto a pencil next to a copy of "The Doctor's Apprentice".

Includes book reviews and press clippings of Ann Walsh publications.

Includes original book reviews.

Includes rejection correspondence to Ann Walsh regarding various story proposals.

Includes press clippings and lists of publishers to which material had been submitted.

Includes Bookmarks featuring Ann Walsh publications.

Includes publicity posters.

Includes promotion of Ann Walsh novels in various publisher's catalogues.

Includes a copy of B.C. Bookworld, vol. 21, no.4, winter 2007-2008 with a feature interview with Ann Walsh.

Includes draft contracts between Ann Walsh and Beach Holme Publishing, related correspondence, and plotting notes pertaining to "The Miserable Middle Moniker Society" and related Teachers' Guide.

Includes various signed publishing contracts, signed authors agreement between Anne Walsh and Kathleen Cook-Waldron re: "A Gold Rush Alphabet," and rights and ownership correspondence.