Turnstone Press

A number of authors who have recently published books with Turnstone Press will be reading at the Manitoba Writers' Guild Symposium on Manitoba Writing: Let the Stars Shine in Our Bones, May 9-12, 2012. A list of readings can be found here. All readings listed below are located at the Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg.

Friday, May 11 at 7:30 pm
Sandra Birdsell
Emma LaRocque
Keith Cadieux
Jake MacDonald
David Arnason (author of Baldur's Song)

A number of authors who have recently published books with Turnstone Press will be reading at the Manitoba Writers' Guild Symposium on Manitoba Writing: Let the Stars Shine in Our Bones, May 9-12, 2012. A list of readings can be found here. All readings listed below are located at the Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg.

HOT 103's Ace Burpee says, "Baldur's Song, to me, is perfect. Thank you Mr. Arnason.

Cheer on David Arnason for a lively evening of readings from this year's nominees for On the Same Page: Manitoba Reads.

Wednesday September 7th, 8:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

A rare occasion brings David Arnason and Wayne Tefs together:

Saturday, August 6 from 2-4pm

McNally Robinson Booksellers

1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg

The authors will be signing the On the Same Page nominee Baldur’s Song and the Manitoba Reads nominee Bandit.

Congratulations to David Arnason and Michelle Berry whose most recent works were longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Awards. Arnason's Baldur's Song: A Saga appears in the Novel category while Berry's I Still Don't Even Know You made it to the Short Fiction longlist.

Turnstone Press is proud to announce that Baldur's Song: A Saga has been shortlisted for On the Same Page: Manitoba Reads.

Cast your vote for Baldur's Song here

A bestselling title of 2010 and shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book award, The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Margaret McWilliams Awards, Baldur's Song has proven to be a favourite of fans and critics alike. Turnstone Press invites everyone to cast a ballot for this exciting One Book project.

Baldur's Song: A Saga by David Arnason adds a third prize nomination to its wish list this spring.

Already short-listed for the Manitoba Book Awards' Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, the novel, featuring the fictionalized life of Arnason's grandfather, has been nominated for the Manitoba Historical Society's 2010 Margaret McWilliams Award in the category of Popular History.

The McWilliams Award is one of the oldest literary awards in Canada named for the Winnipeg author, journalist and feminist, Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875-1952). Readings from the short-listed books will take place at McNally Robinson Booksellers on April 25 at 7:00 p.m.. The awards ceremony will take place at Dalnavert House on June 4 at 1:00 p.m.

In Baldur's Song, Winnipeg's boom-town days at the turn of the twentieth century come to life through the eyes of Baldur, a boy from Gimli, the Icelandic immigrant settlement on the southernmost shore of Lake Winnipeg. Both city and boy grow from innocence to savvy creatures of business as they mature, fall in love, and survive the politics of a competitive, cut-throat society. Lively characters bring early Winnipeg to life, and old neighbourhoods like the West End, Wolseley, West Broadway, and the Exchange District are immediately recognizable. Readers navigate the dirt streets and boardwalks with Baldur in Arnason's vivid narrative.

David Arnason is an acclaimed novelist, a writer of short fiction, and an editor of Turnstone Press since 1975. Very much in touch with his Icelandic heritage, Arnason has taught at the University of Manitoba since 1972, serving as Acting Head of the Department of Icelandic Studies from 1998 to 2006, and as head of the Department of English from 1997 to 2006. Currently, he lives and writes in Gimli, MB.

Winner: Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. A fascinating look at the people, places and stories that make up Winnipeg's literary history, from its earliest days to the present.

In this modern Icelandic saga, Baldur is ­buffeted by chance and opportunity in a ­competitive, ­unforgiving new world, seeking his one true love.