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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at Fraser Valley Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of the short story collection Hello\, Horse\, will be appearing at the Fraser Valley Writers Fest for the panel “Revise.” Richard will be joined by Carleigh Baker\, Anita Lahey\, and Loghan Paylor for discussions on new writing\, chaired by award-winning writer Adrienne Gruber\, followed by a Q&A. \nThe event will take place in the Evered Hall\, Student Union Building on Saturday\, November 2 at 11am. \nMore details here. \nGet Hello\, Horse here! \nABOUT HELLO\, HORSE \nTaut\, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. \nA teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother’s death\, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War\, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War. \nSpanning states and provinces\, and featuring an apocalypse\, a coterie of ghosts\, nuns on ice\, and an above-average number of dogs\, the stories in Hello\, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. Richard is also the author of I Am Herod (also on audiobook)\, which takes readers undercover at one of the world’s largest religious events\, and Caribou Run\, a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of multiple awards including two National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2019 Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. \n 
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-at-fraser-valley-writers-fest/
LOCATION:University of the Fraser Valley\, 33844 King Rd\, Abbotsford\, BC\, V2S 7M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Lisa Alward and Alex Pugsley at AfterWords Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Alward (Cocktail) and Alex Pugsley (The Education of Aubrey McKee) will be appearing at the AfterWords Literary Festival’s “Now We Are Six” celebration! Alex and Lisa will be reading fro\, their recent books at the Wednesday night party\, hosted by Sarah Mian\, alongside fellow authors Amanda Peters\, Deepa Rajagopalan\, Cory Lavender\, and Andrea Currie. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, November 6 at 7PM\, with doors opening at 6:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGet Cocktail here! \nGet The Education of Aubrey McKee here! \nABOUT COCKTAIL \nWinner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction • One of the Globe and Mail’s “Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall” • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 \nA girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest\, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he’s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate\, immersive stories explore life’s watershed moments\, in which seemingly insignificant details—a pot of hyacinths\, a freshly painted yellow wall—and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since\, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves. \nABOUT LISA ALWARD \nLisa Alward’s short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize and twice in Best Canadian Stories. She has won the Fiddlehead Prize as well as the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award\, has been a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award\, an honourable mention in the Peter Hinchcliffe Award\, and been featured on numerous other long lists\, including for the CBC Story Prize and Prism International’s Jacob Zilber Prize (three times). She was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto and an MA at Queen Mary College in London\, England. In the eighties and early nineties\, she worked in book publishing in Toronto\, before moving with her young family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, where at fifty she began to write stories. Cocktail (Biblioasis)\, which received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews\, is her debut collection. \nABOUT THE EDUCATION OF AUBREY MCKEE \nLonglisted for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title • A 49th Shelf Can’t Miss Title for Spring \nA young writer finds his way in and out of love in the late twentieth century. \nThe scene is Toronto\, the early 1990s\, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet named Gudrun Peel—rapidly becomes the person for whom he would do anything at all. Together\, Aubrey and Gudrun make a life of delirious idiosyncrasy. Surrounded by friends\, frenemies\, lovers\, and rivals in the underground arts scene\, the possibilities of their destiny remain radically open. But as their relationship deepens\, and their creative and professional lives stumble\, stall\, and then suddenly blow up\, Aubrey and Gudrun struggle against their own inexperience . . . as well as each other. \nThe much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee\, The Education of Aubrey McKee is a campus novel in which the city of Toronto is the institute of higher education and the setting for a glittering story about the incandescence of first love. \nABOUT ALEX PUGSLEY \nAlex Pugsley is the author of the novels Aubrey McKee and The Education of Aubrey McKee\, as well as the short story collection Shimmer. Following the publication of Aubrey McKee\, he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. He has been nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards\, Gemini Awards\, Hot Doc Awards\, National Magazine Awards\, and is a winner of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. His feature film Dirty Singles is available on Apple TV and Prime Video. His next novel\, Silver Lake\, the third book in a series about Aubrey McKee\, is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/lisa-alward-and-alex-pugsley-at-afterwords-literary-festival/
LOCATION:Cafe Lara\, 2347 Agricola St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Long Short Story
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson will be reading from her Giller-longlisted story collection\, A Way to Be Happy\, at the AfterWords Festival’s event\, “Long Short Story.” Caroline will be in conversation with fellow short story writer Alexander MacLeod about her latest collection\, and will also be joined in reading by Elliott Gish\, Fawn Parker\, and Deepa Rajagoplan. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, November 7 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-afterwords-festival-long-short-story/
LOCATION:Bus Stop Theatre\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Open Secrets
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) we be joining the AfterWords Festival’s event\, “Open Secrets.” \nWhen Andrea Skinner wrote in the Toronto Star about being assaulted by her stepfather when she was a child\, and about how her mother chose to stay with the man instead of to stand by her daughter\, many survivors saw their own experience reflected in her story and felt the reverberations. At the same time\, Alice Munro’s daughters asked readers to continue engaging with their mother’s work\, but through a new lens. \nIn this two-part conversation\, Caroline Adderson\, Heather O’Neill\, and Deepa Rajagoplan join journalist Sarah Hampson to talk about how they’re reading Alice Munro now. Then\, poet Sue Goyette presents new and recent work that dives deeply into her own experience in an unsafe house\, and how trauma moves through image and language on the page. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, November 8 at 12:30PM. \nProceeds for this event go to Avalon Sexual Assault Centre. Content note: CSA \nRegistration and more details here. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-afterwords-festival-open-secrets/
LOCATION:The Carleton\, 1685 Argyle St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at AfterWords Festival: Creating Believable Characters
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) will be hosting a workshop at the AfterWords Festival: “Creating Believable Characters.” Caroline will be teaching how to people your stories and novels with characters who might walk right off the page. She will cover the meaning of names\, explore techniques to deepen characterization\, examine the hidden motivations of your fictional creations\, trace their character arcs\, and make sure that when they speak (and they will!) effective dialogue comes out of their mouths. Come prepared to write\, read\, and share. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, November 9 at 12PM. \nMore details here. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-afterwords-festival-creating-believable-characters/
LOCATION:Bus Stop Theatre\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Catherine Leroux at AfterWords Festival: Fantastic Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Join Catherine Leroux\, author of Canada Reads-winning The Future\, at the AfterWords Festival’s event\, “Fantastic Ideas.” Catherine will be reuniting with her Canada Reads champion Heather O’Neill in conversation about their their respective dark fairy tales The Future and The Capital of Dreams. The event will also feature readings from Elizabeth Renzetti\, Charlene Carr\, and Anne Fleming. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, November 9 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of The Future here! \nABOUT THE FUTURE \nWinner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Reviews Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • A CBC Books Bestselling Canadian Book of the Week \nIn an alternate history of Detroit\, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution\, poverty\, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters\, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. \nWhen a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge\, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society\, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future\, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together. \nABOUT CATHERINE LEROUX \nCatherine Leroux is a Quebec novelist\, translator and editor born in 1979. Her novel Le mur mitoyen won the France-Quebec Prize and its English version\, The Party Wall\, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future won CBC’s Canada Reads 2024\, received the Jacques-Brossard award for speculative fiction and was nominated for the Quebec Booksellers Prize. Catherine also won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for her translation of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Two of her novels are currently being adapted for the screen. Her latest book\, Peuple de verre\, a speculative novel about the housing crisis\, came out in April 2024. She lives in Montreal with her two children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/catherine-leroux-at-afterwords-festival-fantastic-ideas/
LOCATION:Bus Stop Theatre\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
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