Posts Tagged ‘leacock medal’
So I haven’t done the promo thing here in a loooooooong time, but this is news it seemed crazy not to share and to offer special discount tickets to my new play which runs May 9-25th at the Granville Island Stage (the theatre formerly known as Prince, I mean The Arts Club Granville Island). The new [...]
Never Shoot A Stampede Queen is a terrific debut; funny, moving and profound. You will laugh out loud. —Will Ferguson Never Shoot a Stampede Queen WON the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is a collection of true-life tall tales about a rookie reporter’s adventures in Canada’s still-very-wild West. The [...]
“Once a city boy has gone country, does he ever go back again? Mark Leiren-Young hasn’t. Sure he spends time in the city, but when we caught up with the hardworking screenwriter, comedian, playwright and freelancer (who often writes for The Tyee) to talk about his new comic memoir Never Shoot a Stampede Queen — [...]
“Never Shoot a Stampede Queen could serve as the one-book answer to everything would-be journos ever ask – or need to know – about what it’s like to be a real reporter. (Short answer: hilarious when it’s not astounding, frustrating, or terrifying.) Not that Mark Leiren-Young, a journalist turned comedian, playwright, TV-scriptwriter, and author intended [...]
Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is a terrific debut: funny, moving and profound. You will laugh out loud. —Will Ferguson, author ——– Mark Leiren-Young has earned an enviable reputation as Canadian comic and storyteller, but here he expands his literary horizon. His portrait of small-town BC is a mixture of Leacock (the wry humour and [...]
“Twenty-two years ago, Mark Leiren-Young was a new grad out of UVic’s theatre and creative writing departments and was desperate enough for work that he accepted a job as a reporter at the Williams Lake Tribune. Leiren-Young, a city slicker in a small town, found trouble from the moment he entered Williams Lake, B.C. Arriving [...]
By Bill Phillips – Prince George Free Press Published: December 02, 2008 4:00 PM For the record, I worked at the Williams Lake Tribune after Mark Leiren-Young did. I’m not the wacko editor or overly-protective senior reporter he talks about in his new book Never Shoot a Stampede Queen – A Rookie Reporter in the [...]
“The book itself is city-boy-meets-really-rural-life and the hilarity that ensues. But it’s more than that, due to Leiren-Young’s wry commentary, amusing observations and, most importantly, his success at not dismissing the Cariboo folk as yokels existing for his amusement. True, the fish-out-of-water plot drives this tale, and the characters Leiren-Young encounters are certainly memorable, but [...]
Author Snapshot: Mark Leiren-Young (By Linda L. Richards) If you live in Vancouver, it’s next to impossible that you don’t know Mark Leiren-Young’s name. For one thing, it’s a distinctive double-barreled moniker: you remember it once you’ve seen it. Especially since, again if you live in that city and you happen to read, you’ll have [...]