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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
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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
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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
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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/
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