Paul Quarrington to Receive Matt Cohen Award
PAUL QUARRINGTON NAMED RECIPIENT OF WRITERS’ TRUST OF CANADA MATT COHEN AWARD Presentation to be made at IFOA event in honour of Quarrington’s life and work TORONTO, October 19, 2009 The Writers’ Trust...
View ArticleFormer Leacock Medal for Humour Winner recognized by museum
“Orillia’s Leacock Museum has established a literary chair to honour 1988 Leacock Medal for Humour winner and newly dubbed, “Canada’s Renaissance Man”, Paul Quarrington. The Paul Quarrington Chair Fund...
View ArticleQuarrington Arts Society Launched
Toronto, ON (October 24, 2009) ? The launch of the Quarrington Arts Society was announced today by Michael Burke, President and CEO of Cordova Bay Entertainment Group Inc., at a celebration honouring...
View ArticleCBC: Quarrington Wins $20,000 Matt Cohen Award
Toronto writer and musician Paul Quarrington has won the Matt Cohen Award, a $20,000 prize awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. The Matt Cohen Award ? In Celebration of a Writing Life is presented...
View ArticleNipissing University honours Quarrington with honorary degree
Paul Quarrington will receive, posthumously, the honorary degree, Doctor of Letters from Nipissing University, North Bay Ontario Canada. His daughter, Carson Quarrington will accept the honorary degree...
View ArticleCarson Quarrington accepting Honorary Degree, Nipissing U., on behalf of her...
Paul Quarrington posthumously received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters from Nipissing University, North Bay Ontario Canada. His daughter, Carson Quarrington accepted the honorary degree and...
View ArticleBooks of the Year: CBB Cover Award
Perhaps it’s the economy, with its dour sermons of doom, but when I go into a bookstore these days, I’m far more attracted to colourful, flirty covers than to sombre, emotional ones. (I bought...
View ArticleThe Paul Quarrington Radio Show, His Voice, Legacy and Future
Tune in to JazzFM on Sunday, Jan 23, at 10:30pm for a half-hour radio show dedicated to Paul Quarrington, hosted by Porkbelly Futures bandmate and lifelong friend Martin Worthy; to continue to...
View ArticlePaul Quarrington Life in Music Doc Wins Gold Remi at Houston WorldFest
Out of more than 4,300 international category entries in the 10 major Remi Award Competitions, WorldFest-Houston, the third longest-running International Film Festival in North America, announced its...
View ArticlePaul Quarrington Life in Music nominated for Directors Guild Award
The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) has announced its nominees for this year’s awards ceremony, with 76 nominations in 19 categories emerging from close to 175 submissions. Four projects are up for the...
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