News / Upcoming Events:

Nov. 11th, 2002:
The Hallowe'en Strange Tongues show was a GREAT success. Our largest show ever, by the time the lights dimmed and the words began, the Oasis was at standing room only capacity. Thank you to all that came out and made this first annual Strange Tongues Hallowe'en Bash a success and thank you to the "wishing to remain anonymous" donator of all the terrific decorations.

Notable moments include, Aphyd winning the "best death scene" award. Peter Rintoul (who will be one of our November features) winning the best costume by audience vote for his medieval monk ensemble. Runners up included Star Trek Girl and the Pirate.

The Strange Tongues crew would like to thank our sponsors for the evening and their donations to the prize packs:

• Burning Effigy Press for numerous donations from their present & upcoming catalogue.
• To Die For Designs for their generous $25 and $50 gift certificates.
• Norm Cristofoli of CoffeeHouse.ca for the Labour of Love Mags & CDs
• Cynthia Gould of ihaveasecret.com for the two paintings and CDs
• Aphyd of Nanochrist.com for the CDs
• Peter & Ingrid from the Bleeding Pen for the magazines
• Phlip Arima for the advance CD
• Tim Carter & David Clink for their chapbook donations.

July 28th, 2002:
Relaunch of the new-and-even-more-improved Strange Tongues website, just in time for Sunday night's show.

July 17th, 2002:
Things have been busy in the Strange Tongues camp recently, we've got some great features lined up for the fall with more announcements to come shortly. Currently we are planning our special Hallowe'en event which feature David Clink and Timothy Carter. The night will dedicated to celebrating fantasy, science fiction, horror and other dark writing. Open stage performers are encouraged to get involved by reading works from these genres or dressing up in Hallowe'en garb (read: costumes) for the event.

Also upcoming for the ONE year anniversary of our series we will be releasing an anthology of works contributed by our past features and favourite open stage regulars. For more information on this release, drop a line to Burning Effigy Press & Productions at mail@burningeffigy.com.

Lastly, Strange Tongues will be in hiatus in December 2002 but will return at the usual date and time in January. December, however, offers a special treat. On Sunday December 15th, Strange Tongues in conjunction with Burning Effigy Press & ihaveasecret.com will throw a launch party for the first book by Strange Tongues co-founder, monica s. kuebler, and Cynthia Gould. For information on how you can pre-order a copy of the book (all pre-ordered copies will ship with an exclusive bonus CD) and get an invite to this event email somewordsspoken@burningeffigy.com