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		<title>New WONK Event in the WONK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WONK has good news! Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst is coming to read in Wetaskiwin on October 26 at the Pipestone Food Co. Things will get rolling around 7:30. &#160; Who: Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst (go to this link to see some artwork www.hiemstra-vanderhorst.com) What: Visual artist and writer Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst will be reading from her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/555</link>
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		<title>Call for Submissions for WONK8 (and beyond)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Momentum is an funny thing. In strictly physical terms, it is simply a measurement of the velocity of an object multiplied by its mass. Applying this definition to WONK of late makes us realize that, because of how rapidly we lost our momentum, we are neither very heavy or very fast. We hope to change all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/543</link>
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		<title>Glen Sorestad on Writing in Nature and the Nature of Writing: an Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in October, WONK had the privilege of hosting a poetry reading with two fantastic poets and orators, Jenna Butler and Glen Sorestad. The night of poetry was well attended and all were glowing with the embers thrown by Jenna and Glen&#8217;s reading. Shortly before the event, WONK&#8217;s Jonathan Meakin gave us an in depth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/504</link>
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		<title>The Condiment Queen by Becca Dextraze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca "Joe" Dextraze resides in The Awesome Town, more commonly known as Wetaskiwin. She is thirteen and in grade 8 with the School Of Hope CyberSchool. She dances at DanceFX (aka the most amazing dance studio on earth), and wrote this epic story in grade 7. She was born on an island, Grand Cayman, and likes pickles. Consequently, she is one of the most amazing children on earth.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/478</link>
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		<title>Field Work: An interview with Jenna Butler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenna Butler is a poet, publisher, scholar, instructor and all around awesome person. Her work will be featured in the upcoming WONK7 and in person as she reads with fellow poet Glen Sorestad in Wetaskiwin on October 7. In anticipation of this occasion, WONK's Jonathan Meakin talked to Jenna about poetry, publishing and the challenges of doing both in rural Alberta.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/454</link>
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		<title>A Night Out in the Wonk with WONK (but feel free to bring another date).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking and to start doing  is finally upon us. Because we recognize this, WONK has been hard at work putting out WONK6, which features great work from a number of writers and illustrators. The theme was loosely based around children's literature and our contributors blew away our expectations, turning us in directions we never, well, expected.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/432</link>
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		<title>Twitter Project Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We at wonkWeb thought that we'd be remiss if we were to let another moment pass without an update on our twitter poem project. For the record, the project started out brilliantly. We received two very well crafted lines of the poem from, first, @EcDevGuyRick and then from @linoleumbob.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/413</link>
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		<title>we’re sorry. we make no apologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[despite what may seem an elaborate literary scheme, we have not embezzled your dollars and gone on a fancy summer vacation. (disclaimer- we did go to bashaw.) we have simply been enjoying our summer and sadly it has been at the expense of your reading pleasure. (we are secretly hoping that you take a summer reading hiatus like we do.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/409</link>
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		<title>Twitter Your Way to Fame (limited) and Fortune (non-monetary).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Twitter is for kids, it&#8217;s only a trend, it won&#8217;t last&#8221;. These are all things that WONKweb hears almost daily and, who knows, they might be true. Whatever the case (or fate) might be for Twitter, we at WONKweb think that, while it&#8217;s still around, Twitter offers a forum for some truly collaborative writing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/381</link>
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		<title>Rachael Lee reads &#8220;Grandmother Moon&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachael Lee (and William) was kind enough to come to the park and sit in the wind to read her poem <strong>Grandmother Moon</strong>, featured in the groundbreaking (and currently available) <strong>WONK5</strong>.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourwonk.com/archives/367</link>
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