Electric Mermaid: Featuring Bill Engleson @Char's

Date:

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Venue:

Char's Landing

4815 Argyle Street, Port Alberni

Contact:

electricmermaidreads@gmail.com

Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

Emcee: Derek Hanebury Moderator: Karl Korven ZOOM Producer: Charlene Patterson

Spoken Word Open Mic at Char's Landing, last Wednesday of each month

ZOOM Hybrid event. Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time

AUGUST 27TH 2025 FEATURING BILL ENGLESON

Live Video => https://youtu.be/PWmJTqFm62Q?si=vzYHbqFGDDADiqFb

Bill Engleson is an author and retired child protection social worker. He was born in Powell River, raised in Nanaimo, and spent his first year of life trapped aboard his parents’ leaky fish boat.He resided in New Westminster for most of his adult years, retiring to Denman Island in 2004. He writes fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, and letters to the editor. He has been writing most of his life and his first couple of poetic efforts were printed in his mid-teens in the, now, sadly defunct Nanaimo Daily Free Press. He self-published his first novel, Like a Child to Home in 2013. Silver Bow Publishing released his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays titled Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul, in October 2016. He is working on several projects including a prequel to his first novel, Drawn Towards the Sun, and a long simmering mystery, A Short Rope on a Nasty Night. His story, Fidelity, recently took second place in Geist’s short long-distance writing contest. He has also had the privilege over the past few years of writing reviews for the British Columbia Review including books by Hugh Greer, Daniel Wood, Luke Whittell, two by Jack Knox (Opportunity Knox and Hard Knox) and Mike McCardell as well as contributing an essay on the Denman Island Dora Drinkwater Library. While many of his longer projects are taking their own good time, he has just published his latest novel, The Life of Gronsky, a whirlwind of a creation that took almost no time at all to write.. Well, perhaps a tad longer than that. His refurbished website /blog is http://www.engleson.ca/

AUGUST 27TH READERS LIST

READER 01 Jenn Wenn 5 min Via zoom ( London Ont)

READER 02 Robie Van in Person 5min ( Port Alberni BC)

FEATURE 1 Bill Engelson Via Zoom (Denmen Island BC. )

READER 03 Vicki Drybough in Person 5 min ( Port Alberni B.C )

READER 04

READER 05

READER 06 Lesli Omohundro-Bronczkowski Via Zoom (Germany )

READER 07 RAINCHECK Melissa in Person 5 min (Port Alberni BC)

READER 08 Mark wonneck 5 min via zoom Qualicum B.C)

READER 09 Kathleen Vance Via zoom (Gibsons B.C)

READER 10 David Kippling Via Zoom (Gibsons BC)