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SUMMARY:Colleen Coco Collins at the Fredericton Poetry Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Catch Colleen Coco Collins\, author of the poetry collection Sorry About the Fire\, at the Fredericton Poetry Weekend! Book available for sale by Westminster Bookmark. \nThe all-day event takes place at UNB’s Memorial Hall on Sunday\, October 5. \nGrab Sorry About the Fire here! \nABOUT SORRY ABOUT THE FIRE \nA CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • 3rd Prize Alcuin Award for Book Design in Poetry \nI wanted a good bewildering\, / down deep\, / as the keep of a castle. \nWith a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus only to face dire consequences—Colleen Coco Collins’ debut poems are daring dispatches from beyond the margins: light-filled flares sent up from the edge of language\, sentience\, land\, and story. Drawing on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations and rendered through the triple vision of her Irish\, French\, and Odawa heritage\, Sorry About the Fire introduces not just a poet\, but a stunningly original sensibility. \nABOUT COLLEEN COCO COLLINS \nColleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish\, French\, and Odawa descent\, working in songwriting\, performance\, poetry and visual arts. She’s worked as a gallery director\, in forestry\, fossil preparation\, and renovation; as an autism support worker\, teacher\, and women’s shelter counsellor. Her writing\, music\, and art practice centers on temporality\, presumptions of sentience\, subversion\, rhythm\, gesture\, geographies\, biophonies\, frequencies\, the ouroboric\, the peripatetic\, love and the polyglottic. Hailing from Antler River/Deshkan Ziibiing/London\, Ontario\, Coco has studied at universities in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick\, New Zealand\, and Ireland. She lives litorally in rural Port Greville\, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows\, coyotes\, grackles\, bees\, humpback\, lichen and fox.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/colleen-coco-collins-at-poetry-weekend/
LOCATION:UNB Fredericton\, Fredericton\, NB\, E3B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at Fog Lit Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of Hello\, Horse\, at the Fog Lit Festival\, where he’ll be hosting the Opening Reception & Literary Trivia! \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, September 25 at 7PM. \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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-at-fog-lit-festival/
LOCATION:BMO Theatre\, 112 Princess Street\, Saint John\, NB\, E2L 1K4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Steven Heighton's Sacred Rage: Kingston Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Steven Heighton’s second posthumous story collection\, Sacred Rage\, will be included in the Kingston Writers Fest event\, “Bushwacked by Inspiration: Short Stories.” Excerpts from Sacred Rage will be read by Sarah Tsiang\, who will also be joined for the event by Catherine Bush\, Deepa Rajagopalan\, and Jamal Saeed in a discussion of writing short-form fiction\, and its challenges and particular satisfactions. \nThe event will take place in the Rideau Room (Kingston Marriott) on Friday\, September 19 at 7PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Sacred Rage here! \nABOUT SACRED RAGE \n“A writer only feels like a writer when in the act. And the will\, I said\, is never enough . . . Where does inspiration\, that sacred rage\, originate? Maybe it’s just a matter of stubbornly starting something new and writing your way into the slot.”—Steven Heighton \nIn the years before his unexpected death\, Steven Heighton wrote to his longtime editor John Metcalf to say that he understood that the short story marked his most important contribution to literature\, and that “after the novels\, rereading and writing short stories again felt like returning home.” In the fifteen stories taken from across his four collections\, Sacred Rage offers us Heighton as the moral explorer of the global suburbs\, as chronicler of our innermost stories of love and fear\, sleeping and waking\, of a rebel “unabashedly devoted to the old pursuit\,” as he once called it\, “of truth and beauty.” These are stories of grace and the lack of it; of elegy and requiem; of hope and care in a world where these seem increasingly alien\, stories by one of our most sharp-eyed and generous writers\, whether you’re discovering them for the first time\, or once again. \nABOUT STEVEN HEIGHTON \nSteven Heighton (1961–2022) was a writer and musician. His twenty previous books include the novels Afterlands\, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice\, and the bestselling The Shadow Boxer; the Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize finalist memoir Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos; and The Waking Comes Late\, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/steven-heightons-sacred-rage-kingston-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Kingston Marriott\, 285 King St E\, Kingston\, ON\, K7L 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Ira Wells at Kingston Writers Fest: You Can't Read That!
DESCRIPTION:Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning\, will be speaking at the Kingston Writers Fest event “You Can’t Read That!” Ira will be joined by politics and culture critic David Moscrop in a robust discussion of public and private book banning. Is it wrong to embrace the books of people who do things we abhor? What is ‘equity-based weeding’? How can we know the true scope of book banning when according to a study by the American Library Association 82 to 97 percent of all library challenges go unreported? Do we have a national\, communal history? If so\, how can we best protect it? \nThe event will take place in the Limestone City Ballroom (Kingston Marriott) on Friday\, September 19 at 3:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab a copy of On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ira-wells-kingston-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Kingston Marriott\, 285 King St E\, Kingston\, ON\, K7L 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Colleen Coco Collins at the Antler River Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Colleen Coco Collins\, author of the poetry collection Sorry About the Fire\, will be a guest reader at the Antler River Poetry Series! Coco will be joined by fellow poets Erín Moure and Chantel Neveu. \nThe event takes place at the Landon Branch of the London Public Library on Wednesday\, September 17 at 7PM. \nGrab Sorry About the Fire here! \nABOUT SORRY ABOUT THE FIRE \nA CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • 3rd Prize Alcuin Award for Book Design in Poetry \nI wanted a good bewildering\, / down deep\, / as the keep of a castle. \nWith a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus only to face dire consequences—Colleen Coco Collins’ debut poems are daring dispatches from beyond the margins: light-filled flares sent up from the edge of language\, sentience\, land\, and story. Drawing on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations and rendered through the triple vision of her Irish\, French\, and Odawa heritage\, Sorry About the Fire introduces not just a poet\, but a stunningly original sensibility. \nABOUT COLLEEN COCO COLLINS \nColleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish\, French\, and Odawa descent\, working in songwriting\, performance\, poetry and visual arts. She’s worked as a gallery director\, in forestry\, fossil preparation\, and renovation; as an autism support worker\, teacher\, and women’s shelter counsellor. Her writing\, music\, and art practice centers on temporality\, presumptions of sentience\, subversion\, rhythm\, gesture\, geographies\, biophonies\, frequencies\, the ouroboric\, the peripatetic\, love and the polyglottic. Hailing from Antler River/Deshkan Ziibiing/London\, Ontario\, Coco has studied at universities in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick\, New Zealand\, and Ireland. She lives litorally in rural Port Greville\, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows\, coyotes\, grackles\, bees\, humpback\, lichen and fox.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/colleen-coco-collins-at-the-antler-river-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Landon Branch London Public Library\, 167 Wortley Road\, London\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Mark Bourrie at Eden Mills Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Mark Bourrie (author of Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre) as he speaks at the Eden Mills Writers Festival on the panel “The Kim Lang Set: True North Unsettled: A Conversation on Democracy.” Mark will be in conversation alongside David A. Robertson\, Andrew Coyne\, Ariel Sim\, and Karin Wells\, as well as host Jessica Johnson. \nIn a nation long mythologized as orderly and fair\, what happens when our democratic assumptions and institutions begin to wobble? The cracks have always been there—widening now into fault lines that shape our politics\, our laws\, and our daily lives. In this conversation\, journalists\, a legal historian\, an Indigenous organizer\, and a civic thinker gather to ask how a democracy survives when its story no longer matches its reality. From federal failures to grassroots resistance\, from the rights of rivers to the rights of women\, they invite us to wrestle with the hardest questions: Whose democracy is it? And who gets to decide? \nThe conversation will take place at The Meadow on Sunday\, September 7 at 1:30PM. More details here. \nGrab Ripper here! \nABOUT RIPPER \nSix weeks into the Covid pandemic\, New York Times columnist David Brooks identified two types of Western politicians: rippers and weavers. Rippers\, whether on the right or the left\, see politics as war. They don’t care about the destruction that’s caused as they fight for power. Weavers are their opposite: people who try to fix things\, who want to bring people together and try to build consensus. At the beginning of the pandemic\, weavers seemed to be winning. Five years later\, as Canada heads towards a pivotal election\, that’s no longer the case. Across the border\, a ripper is remaking the American government. And for the first time in its history\, Canada has its own ripper poised to assume power. \nPierre Poilievre has enjoyed most of the advantages of the mainstream Canadian middle class. Yet he’s long been the angriest man on the political stage. In Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre\, bestselling author Mark Bourrie\, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize\, charts Poilievre’s rise through the political system\, from teenage volunteer to outspoken Opposition leader known for cutting soundbites and theatrics. Bourrie shows how we arrived at this divisive moment in our history\, one in which rippers are poised to capitalize on conflict. He shows how Poilievre and this new style of politics have gained so much ground—and warns of what it will cost us if they succeed. \nABOUT MARK BOURRIE \nMark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author\, lawyer\, and journalist. He holds a master’s in journalism from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017\, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism\, including a National Magazine Award\, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent books include Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul\, the national bestseller Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia\, and Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/mark-bourrie-at-eden-mills/
LOCATION:Eden Mills Writers’ Festival\, 19 Cedar Street\, Eden Mills\, Ontario\, N0B 1P0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson will be appearing at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts to speak about her latest collection of short stories\, A Way to Be Happy! \nThe event will take place on Friday\, August 15 at 2:30 PM PST. \nMore details and tickets here. \nGrab a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY  \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \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-sunshine-coast/
LOCATION:Rockwood Centre\, 5511 Shorncliffe Ave\, Sechelt\, BC\, V0N 3A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Denman Island Festival: Main Stage Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) will be joining the discussion “Diving into Darkness to find our humanity/joy/compassion” on the Main Stage\, alongside fellow writers Sarah Leavitt and Fiona Tinwei Lam. \nThe discussion will take place on Saturday\, July 19 at 7:30PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY  \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \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-denman-island-festival-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Denman Island\, BC\, V0R 1T0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Denman Island Festival: Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson (A Way to Be Happy) will be hosting a workshop at the Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival! The workshop\, “Ending It All” will explore what makes a story ending successful\, looking at planned vs. discovered endings\, common pitfalls\, and how plot and character arcs guide satisfying conclusions. \nThe workshop will take place on Thursday\, July 17 at 10AM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY  \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \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-denman-island-festival-workshop/
LOCATION:Denman Island\, BC\, V0R 1T0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Steven Beattie at the Books & Brews Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join Best Canadian Stories 2025 editor Steven Beattie at the Books & Brews Book Fair in Stratford! Beattie will be selling copies of the anthology at the fair\, joined by a fun assortment of other small presses. \nThe book fair will take place at the Jobsite Brewery on Saturday\, July 5 starting at 12PM. \nMore about Best Canadian Stories 2025 here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2025 \nSelected by editor Steven W. Beattie\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nChris Bailey • Christine Birbalsingh • Cody Caetano • Kate Cayley • Lynn Coady • Caitlin Galway • Marcel Goh • Beth Goobie • Mark Anthony Jarman • Saad Omar Khan • Chelsea Peters • Kawai Shen • Liz Stewart • Glenna Turnbull • Catriona Wright • Clea Young \nABOUT STEVEN W. BEATTIE \nSteven W. Beattie\, a writer in Stratford\, Ontario\, spent twelve and a half years as Review Editor at Quill & Quire\, Canada’s magazine of the publishing trade industry. His writing and criticism have appeared in the Globe and Mail\, the Toronto Star\, the National Post\, The Walrus\, Canadian Notes & Queries\, and elsewhere. He maintains the literary website That Shakespearean Rag.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/steven-beattie-at-the-books-brews-book-fair/
LOCATION:Jobsite Brewery\, 45 Cambria Street\, Stratford\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Graeme Macrae Burnet at MOTIVE Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come on out to MOTIVE Festival in Toronto\, where Graeme Macrae Burnet will be appearing for the “Small Towns\, Big Secrets” panel! Burnet will be discussing his recent book\, A Case of Matricide\, and will be joined by fellow writers Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti for a conversation moderated by Samantha Bailey. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, June 28 at 2:15 PM. \nMore details here! \nGrab a copy of A Case of Matricide here. \nABOUT A CASE OF MATRICIDE \nFrom the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski. \nIn the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis\, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to kill her; a prominent businessman drops dead. Between visits to the town’s drinking establishments\, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders what connections\, if any\, exist between these events\, all while grappling with his own domestic and existential demons. \nWith his signature virtuosity\, in which literary sleight-of-hand meets piercing insight into human nature\, Graeme Macrae Burnet punctures the respectable bourgeois façade of small-town life and unspools a spellbinding riddle that blurs the boundaries between suspect\, investigator\, writer\, and reader. \nABOUT GRAEME MACRAE BURNET \nGraeme Macrae Burnet was born in Kilmarnock\, Scotland\, and now lives in Glasgow. His Bloody Project\, his second novel\, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016\, won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2016\, and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards 2017. His fourth novel\, Case Study\, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 and was included in the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022. A Case of Matricide is his fifth novel\, the third featuring Chief Inspector Georges Gorski.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/graeme-macrae-burnet-at-motive-festival/
LOCATION:Emmanuel College\, 75 Queen's Park Crescent\, Rm 119\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1K7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:On Book Banning: Ira Wells at Ottawa Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Ira Wells as he speaks about his new book On Book Banning\, a lively\, accessible survey of the pressing question of literary censorship in our times of crisis and change\, with host Adrian Harewood at the Ottawa Writers Festival. Book will be available for purchase from Perfect Books. \nThis event will take place on Sunday\, May 4 at 2:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-at-ottawa-writers-fest/
LOCATION:NB
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:On Oil: Don Gillmor at Ottawa Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Don Gillmor as he speaks at the Ottawa Writers Festival about his new book On Oil\, in which the journalist and former roughneck considers our long\, complex\, tortured relationship with oil. \nThis event\, hosted by Jennifer Baker\, will take place on Saturday\, May 3 at 4PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab On Oil here! \nABOUT ON OIL \nA journalist\, and former roughneck\, considers our long\, complex\, tortured relationship with oil. \nOil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth\, progress\, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars\, ended wars\, and infiltrated governments—in some cases\, effectively become the government. And now oil’s enduring mythology is facing a messy\, complicated twilight. \nIn On Oil\, Don Gillmor\, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta\, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture\, in Canada and elsewhere\, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong—and how we might yet change course. \nABOUT DON GILLMOR \nDon Gillmor is the author of To the River\, which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of four novels\, Breaking and Entering\, Long Change\, Mount Pleasant\, and Kanata\, a two-volume history of Canada\, Canada: A People’s History\, and nine books for children\, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Walrus\, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone\, GQ\, The Walrus\, Saturday Night\, Toronto Life\, the Globe and Mail\, and the Toronto Star. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-oil-don-gillmor-at-ottawa-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1A 0N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/Moncton:20250427T143000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Alward at the Frye Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come on out to this year’s Frye Festival\, where Lisa Alward\, author of Cocktail\, will be doing a Flash Frye reading of the collection for the panel ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ The panel\, which features books that wrestle with bodily autonomy and the impossible expectations that come with being a woman\, will be moderated by Alisa Arsenault and features a discussion between Shashi Bhat and Siobhan Gallagher. \nThe event will take place at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre on Sunday\, April 27 at 1PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Cocktail 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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/lisa-alward-at-the-frye-festival/
LOCATION:Aberdeen Cultural Centre\, 140 rue Botsford\, Moncton\, NB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me: AfterWords Spring Foreword
DESCRIPTION:Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, author of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me (trans. Catherine Khordoc)\, will be a part of the AfterWords Spring Foreword event! Mélikah will be in conversation with Vinh Nguyen and host Fazeela Jiwa. Books will be available courtesy of King’s Co-op Books. \nThe event will take place at Park Place Theatre on Saturday\, April 26 at 6PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me here! \nABOUT BALDWIN\, STYRON\, AND ME \nAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity\, race\, and censorship. \nIn 1961\, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s guest house. The two wrote during the day\, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations\, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write\, in first person\, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim\, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968\, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community. \nDecades later\, the controversy around cultural appropriation\, identity\, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me\, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers’ surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today’s politics and media. Considering questions of identity\, race\, equity\, and the often contentious public debates about these topics\, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen—even in disagreement. \nABOUT MÉLIKAH ABDELMOUMEN \nMélikah Abdelmoumen was born in Chicoutimi in 1972. She lived in Lyon\, France\, from 2005 to 2017. She holds a PhD in literary studies from the Université de Montréal and has published many articles\, short stories\, novels\, and essays\, including Les désastrées (2013)\, Douze ans en France (2018)\, and Petite-Ville (2024). She worked as an editor with the Groupe Ville-Marie Littérature in Montreal until 2021. She was the editor-in-chief of Lettres québécoises\, a Québec literary magazine\, from 2021 to 2024. Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me is her tenth book (and the first to be translated).
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/baldwin-styron-and-me-afterwords-spring-foreword/
LOCATION:Park Place Theatre\, 5480 Point Pleasant Drive\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 0B4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Kev Lambert and Donald Winkler at Blue Metropolis Festival: Translation Bliss
DESCRIPTION:Author Kev Lambert and translator Donald Winkler (May Our Joy Endure\, Querelle of Roberval\, You Will Love What You Have Killed) will be attending the Blue Metropolis Festival! They will be joining a discussion on the art of translation with author Anne Michaels and translator Dominique Fortier\, moderated by Katia Grubisic. How to read a novel? How to make a voice heard in another language? What subtle dialogue does translation create? \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, April 26th at 11:30 AM. \nMore details here. \nGet May Our Joy Endure here! \nABOUT KEV LAMBERT \nBorn in 1992\, Kev Lambert grew up in Chicoutimi\, Quebec. May Our Joy Endure won the Prix Médicis\, Prix Décembre\, and Prix Ringuet\, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Their second novel\, Querelle de Roberval\, was acclaimed in Quebec\, where it was nominated for four literary prizes; in France\, where it was a finalist for the Prix Médicis and Prix Le Monde and won the Prix Sade; and Canada\, where it was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Their first novel\, You Will Love What You Have Killed\, also widely acclaimed\, won a prize for the best novel from the Saguenay region and was a finalist for Quebec’s Booksellers’ Prize. Lambert lives in Montreal. \nABOUT DONALD WINKLER \nDonald Winkler is a translator of fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-to-English translation. He lives in Montreal.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/kev-lambert-and-donald-winkler-at-blue-metropolis-festival-translation-bliss/
LOCATION:Hôtel 10 – Salle Jardin\, 10 rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, QC\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:UNMET: stephanie roberts at Ottawa VerseFest
DESCRIPTION:stephanie roberts\, author of the forthcoming poetry collection UNMET\, will be at the Ottawa VerseFest! stephanie will be part of the Plan 99 Reading Series\, and will be joined by fellow poets Bridget Huh and Sara Berkeley. \nThe event will take place at the Manx Pub on Saturday\, March 29 at 5PM. \nMore details here. \nPreorder UNMET here! \nABOUT UNMET \nThis is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else\, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus. \nLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen\, UNMET explores frustration\, justice\, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx\, Canadian\, immigrant\, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics\, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss\, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality\, respectability politics\, intimate partner violence\, and ecological crisis\, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be\, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future. \nABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS \nstephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment\, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence\, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies\, in print and online\, throughout Canada\, the US\, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada\, Panama\, and the US\, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/unmet-stephanie-roberts-at-ottawa-versefest/
LOCATION:The Manx\, 370 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, ON\, K2P 1N1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Festival,Reading
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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
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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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: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: 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: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: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:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at Vancouver Writers Fest: The Literary Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at Vancouver Writers Fest for the Literary Cabaret! Jón will be joined by fellow authors Roddy Doyle\, Anne Enright\, Richard Powers\, Brandon Taylor\, and Ayelet Tsabari. At the helm of the Vancouver Writers Fest flagship event is Musical Director Benjamin Millman\, and his band\, The Oxymorons. \nThe event will be at Performance Works on Saturday\, October 26 at 8PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-vancouver-writers-fest-2/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Jón Kalman Stefánsson at Vancouver Writers Fest: The Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson\, author of Your Absence Is Darkness\, trans. by Philip Roughton\, will be at Vancouver Writers Fest for the panel “The Conversations.” Jón will be joined by Anne Enright and Myriam J. A. Chancy for a discussion moderated by Aislinn Hunter (Best Canadian Poetry 2025). Back-to-back conversations with the three international authors probe the writing life and bring up questions about love\, intergenerational bonds\, and possibility.  \nThe event will be at the Granville Island Stage on Friday\, October 25 at 1PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab a copy of Your Absence Is Darkness here! \nABOUT YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS \nA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community\, by one of Iceland’s most beloved novelists.  \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries\, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\, made and avoided\, that cascade between them\, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time\, and a spellbinding saga of death\, desire\, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. \nABOUT JON KALMAN STEFANSSON \nJón Kalman Stefánsson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature\, and his novel Summer Light\, and Then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Heaven and Hell\, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel\, Fish Have No Feet\, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/jon-kalman-stefansson-at-vancouver-writers-fest-1/
LOCATION:Granville Island Stage\, 1585 Johnston Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry 2025: Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Aislinn Hunter\, editor of this year’s Best Canadian Poetry 2025 anthology\, will be hosting “The Poetry Bash” event at Vancouver Writer’s Fest! Poets joining the event include Evelyn Lau\, contributor to and representative of Best Canadian Poetry 2025\, alongside fellow poets Stephen Collis\, Jess Housty\, Zehra Naqvi\, Michael Turner\, shō yamagushiku\, and Daniel Zomparelli. Entrancing\, surprising\, and memorable: The Poetry Bash is a gateway to discovering new-to-you poets or hearing your favourites. \nThe event will take place on Thursday\, October 24 at 8:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Best Canadian Poetry 2025 here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2025 \nSelected by editor Aislinn Hunter\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nHollie Adams • George Amabile • Erin Bedford • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Elisabeth Blair • Ronna Bloom • Alison Braid-Fernandez • Robert Bringhurst • Emily Cann • Anne Carson • Molly Cross-Blanchard • Lorna Crozier • Kayla Czaga • Evelyna Ekoko-Kay • Kate Genevieve • Susan Gillis • Sue Goyette • Catherine Graham • Henry Heavyshield • Gerald Hill • Alexander Hollenberg • Kim June Johnson • Eve Joseph • Evelyn Lau • Y. S. Lee • D. A. Lockhart • Fareh Malik • David Martin • Domenica Martinello • Cassidy McFadzean • Carmelita McGrath • Erín Moure • Tolu Oloruntoba • Catherine Owen • Molly Peacock • Miranda Pearson • Pauline Peters • Amanda Proctor • Shannon Quinn • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Anne Simpson • Carolyn Smart • Karen Solie • Catherine St. Denis • Owen Torrey • Michael Trussler • Sara Truuvert • Rob Winger • Jaeyun Yoo \nABOUT AISLINN HUNTER \nAislinn Hunter is an award-winning poet and novelist living on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her most recent book of poetry is Linger\, Still (Gaspereau Press)\, winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-2025-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at Vancouver Writers Fest for the reading event “Short Stories\, Infinite Identities.” Caroline will be in conversation with authors Shashi Bhat and Aaron Kreuter\, for this event moderated by Shaena Lambert. \nGood short stories can share expansive truths with the smallest details. Each of these authors offer mesmerizing insights into what it means to be human in their collections. Discover more about the intricate craft of short stories\, which offers a necessary tapestry of humanity. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, October 23 at 5:30 PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab 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-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Performance Works\, 1218 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Michael Lista at Calgary Wordfest: How to . . . Investigate
DESCRIPTION:Michael Lista\, author of poetry collection Barfly (June 6\, 2024) will be at the Calgary Wordfest’s Imaginairium Festival’s event\, “How to . . . Investigate.” Michael will be interviewed in a 60-minute conversation by friend and fellow long-form award-winner Christina Frangou who will uncover the secrets of how he gets the story. A priceless interview with two unstoppable journalists. Books will be made available for sale and signing by Owl’s Nest Books. \nThe event is free\, and will take place on Sunday\, October 20 at 3:30PM. \nMore details here. \nGrab Barfly here! \nABOUT BARFLY \nA CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title \nWe’re in love\, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital.  \nIn Barfly\, the poet comes back to haunt himself\, and us. In this incomparable third collection\, his first in a decade\, Michael Lista returns to reinvent poetry with humour\, pugnacity\, and a deeply singular voice. Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with the twenty-first century irreverence of a late-stage Twitter feed\, the poems in Barfly are alternatingly aggressive\, sweet\, deadly\, and raw with a break-your-heart vulnerability. \nABOUT MICHAEL LISTA \nMichael Lista is an investigative journalist\, essayist and poet. He has worked as a book columnist for the National Post and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of four books: the poetry volumes Bloom and The Scarborough; Strike Anywhere\, a collection of his writing about literature\, television and culture; and The Human Scale: Murder\, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems\, a book of longform journalism. His essays and investigative stories have appeared in the New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, The Walrus\, Canadaland\, and Toronto Life. He is a contributing editor at Toronto Life and Maclean’s. He was the 2017 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University and the winner of the 2020 National Magazine Awards for both Investigative Reporting and Long Form Feature Writing. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman\, Robert Downey Jr.\, and Team Downey into a television series for Apple TV+.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/michael-lista-at-calgary-wordfest-3/
LOCATION:Memorial Park Library\, Festival Hub\, 2nd Flr\, 1221 2 St SW\, Calgary\, AB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at Whistler Writers Fest: Sunday BookTalk and Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Join Caroline Adderson\, author of Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) at Whistler Writers Fest for the reading event “Sunday BookTalk and Breakfast.” Caroline will be moderating a conversation between authors Conor Kerr\, Bob McDonald\, and Leanne Toshiko Simpson in a conversation about their new releases. \nThe event will take place on Sunday\, October 20 at 10:45AM. \nMore details here. \nGrab 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-whistler-writers-fest-2/
LOCATION:Fairmont Chateau Whistler\, 4599 Chateau Blvd\, Whistler\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Richard Kelly Kemick at Calgary Wordfest: The Way We... Wear
DESCRIPTION:Richard Kelly Kemick\, author of Hello\, Horse (Aug 6\, 2024)\, will be appearing at the Calgary Wordfest’s Imaginairium Festival’s event\, “The Way We… Wear.” Richard will be joined by fellow writers Anne Enright\, Holly Gramazio\, Jenny Heijun Wills\, Sarah Leavitt\, Canisia Lubrin\, Marissa Stapley\, and Tanya Talaga. The eight writers tell a story about a piece of clothing that became more than just a garment. A lucky left sock? A silk kimono dug up from the bottom of a vintage trunk? The horrible dress your father made you wear to school? The beauty of The Way We… is that we can’t possibly predict what you’ll hear\, but we *can* predict you’ll be telling your friends\, “You had to be there!” Books will be made available for sale and signing by Owl’s Nest Books. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, October 19 at 7:30PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab 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.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/richard-kelly-kemick-at-calgary-wordfest-2/
LOCATION:DJD Dance Centre\, 111 12 Ave SE\, Calgary\, AB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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