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SUMMARY:Elaine Feeney at Ottawa Writers Fest: Now and Then
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Feeney (Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way) will be appearing at the Ottawa Writers Fest for the panel “Now and Then.” Elaine will be joined by fellow Irish novelist Eimear McBride in a conversation hosted by Ottawa’s Poet Laureate\, David O’Meara. \nThe event will take place at Library and Archives Canada on Sunday\, October 26 at 4PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nOrder Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way here! \nABOUT LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY \nAn Observer\, Irish Times\, and Sunday Times Ireland Preview Selection \nClaire O’Connor is a promising writer who left the family’s struggling farmstead in western Ireland for London\, swearing never to return. But after the unexpected death of her mother\, she is racked with grief\, and when her father is diagnosed with cancer\, she decides to return home to care for him\, destroying everything she’d so carefully built up in the process. The pandemic follows\, and Claire falls into a comfortable routine\, one increasingly shaped by a growing obsession: the lives of the 20-something trad wives she discovers on social media. When Tom\, her lost London love\, unexpectedly shows up the next town over\, her anxieties and obsessions collide\, the resulting conflict forcing Claire and her brothers to finally deal with their family’s historic trauma—a trauma whose evidence is carved into the beams of the family home and the stone floors upon which their ancestors bled. \nRanging through recent Irish history\, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is Elaine Feeney’s most ambitious novel to date\, a work of literary and cultural exorcism and a profound exploration of family\, history\, violence\, and hope. \nABOUT ELAINE FEENEY \nElaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel\, As You Were\, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award and won the Kate O’Brien Award\, the McKitterick Prize\, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio Was Gospel and Rise\, and her short story “Sojourn” was included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories\, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Her work appears widely in The Moth\, The Paris Review\, The Stinging Fly\, Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Feeney lectures at the University of Galway.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/elaine-feeney-at-ottawa-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1A 0N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Elaine Feeney at Sacred Heart University
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Feeney (Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way) will be reading at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. \nThe event will take place in the Martire Center Loris Forum on Tuesday\, October 28 at 3:30PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way here! \nABOUT LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY \nAn Observer\, Irish Times\, and Sunday Times Ireland Preview Selection \nClaire O’Connor is a promising writer who left the family’s struggling farmstead in western Ireland for London\, swearing never to return. But after the unexpected death of her mother\, she is racked with grief\, and when her father is diagnosed with cancer\, she decides to return home to care for him\, destroying everything she’d so carefully built up in the process. The pandemic follows\, and Claire falls into a comfortable routine\, one increasingly shaped by a growing obsession: the lives of the 20-something trad wives she discovers on social media. When Tom\, her lost London love\, unexpectedly shows up the next town over\, her anxieties and obsessions collide\, the resulting conflict forcing Claire and her brothers to finally deal with their family’s historic trauma—a trauma whose evidence is carved into the beams of the family home and the stone floors upon which their ancestors bled. \nRanging through recent Irish history\, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is Elaine Feeney’s most ambitious novel to date\, a work of literary and cultural exorcism and a profound exploration of family\, history\, violence\, and hope. \nABOUT ELAINE FEENEY \nElaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel\, As You Were\, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award and won the Kate O’Brien Award\, the McKitterick Prize\, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio Was Gospel and Rise\, and her short story “Sojourn” was included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories\, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Her work appears widely in The Moth\, The Paris Review\, The Stinging Fly\, Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Feeney lectures at the University of Galway.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/elaine-feeney-at-sacred-heart-university/
LOCATION:Sacred Heart University\, 5401 Park Ave\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06825\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Mélikah Abdelmoumen at Wild Writers Festival: Telling Other People’s Stories
DESCRIPTION:Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, author of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me (trans. by Catherine Khordoc) will be at Wild Writers Literary Festival\, for the discussion “Telling Other People’s Stories.” Mélikah will be joined in conversation by Sadiqa de Meijer\, with moderator Lara El Mekaui\, to explore the power and responsibility that come with telling stories that are not our own. \nThrough their thoughtful and nuanced work\, they examine the complexities of voice\, identity\, and empathy\, challenging assumptions about belonging and representation. Don’t miss this engaging conversation about how sharing “other people’s stories” can foster understanding\, connection\, and a reimagined sense of community \nThe even will take place on Saturday\, November 8 at 1:30PM. \nTickets and more 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 MELIKAH 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/melikah-abdelmoumen-wild-writers-fest-1/
LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Mélikah Abdelmoumen at Wild Writers Festival: The Literary Brunch
DESCRIPTION:Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, author of Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me (trans. by Catherine Khordoc) will be at Wild Writers Literary Festival\, for their “Literary Brunch!” Mélikah will be joined by fellow writers Vinh Nguyen and Susan Swan\, with moderator Sarah Scott\, discuss their latest works\, writing process\, and lives as writers. Intimate\, casual\, and engaging—an ideal way to spend a Sunday morning. \nThe Wild Writers Brunch Buffet Includes: \n\nScrambled Eggs with Chives\nBacon and sausage\nHash Browns\nCinnamon French Toast\nSeasonal Fresh Fruit\nFreshly Baked Assorted Breakfast Pastries\nChilled Assorted Juices\nCoffee & Tea\n\nThe event will take place on Sunday\, November 9 at 10AM\, with brunch served at 10:15. \nTickets and more 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 MELIKAH 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/melikah-abdelmoumen-wild-writers-fest-2/
LOCATION:Grey Silo Golf Course\, 2001 University Ave E\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2K 4K4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:Robyn Sarah at Ottawa VerseFest
DESCRIPTION:VerseFest Presents\nRobyn Sarah\, author of We’re Somewhere Else Now: Poems 2016–2024\, will be appearing at Ottawa’s VerseFest on Tuesday\, March 24. She’ll be joined by fellow poets David Galvaude and Melissa Powless Day\, in an event hosted by Chloé LaDuchesse. \nThe event will take place at Club Saw at 8:30PM EST. Tickets are available for purchase here. \nGrab a copy of We’re Somewhere Else Now here! \nABOUT WE’RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW \nIn her first collection of new poems in a decade\, Robyn Sarah chronicles the pandemic years with quiet wisdom and her flair for meshing the familiar with the numinous. \nWe’re Somewhere Else Now moves with ease from the particular to the abstract. These are poems of grief and unexpected change\, of quiet awe at the human experience. Each poem is a window for the reader to look into\, “lit room to lit room\,” tracking desultory days of isolation and uncertainty\, while also highlighting reasons to pay attention: playing with a grandchild\, the rarity of a leap year\, the calls of birds. \nABOUT ROBYN SARAH \nPoet\, writer\, literary editor\, and musician\, Robyn Sarah has lived in Montreal since early childhood. Her writing began to appear in Canadian literary magazines in the 1970s while she completed studies at McGill University and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. Her tenth poetry collection\, My Shoes Are Killing Me\, won the Governor General’s Award in 2015. As well\, she has published two collections of short stories\, a book of essays on poetry\, and a memoir\, Music\, Late and Soon (2021)\, that interweaves her youth as a professional-track clarinetist with her return at fifty-nine (after a lapse of thirty-five years) to the piano teacher who was her life mentor. From 2010 until 2020 she served as poetry editor for Cormorant Books.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/robyn-sarah-at-ottawa-versefest/
LOCATION:Club Saw\, 67 Nicholas Street\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1A 0K7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at the BOOKED! Fernie Writers' Series
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson\, author of the short story collection A Way to Be Happy\, is appearing as the last writer in the BOOKED! Fernie Writers’ Series 25/26 season. Caroline will be speaking in conversation with local author Angie Abdou. \nThe event is free to attend\, and will take place on Thursday\, May 26 2026 at 7PM PDT. The event is 19+ event in accordance with their liquor license. \nMore details and registration here. \nOrder 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 \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-the-booked-fernie-writers-series/
LOCATION:Fernie Heritage Library\, 492 3 Ave\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Festival
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