Events

IFOA Midland

  • 7:30 PM
  • November 2, 2011
  • Midland Public Library
  • Midland
  • Cost: $10
Purchase Tickets through Harbourfront Centre box office

Location information

Midland Public Library
320 King Street
Midland   G7Y 1K8

 

Join us for the second installment of the round table discussion, Men with Pens. This year, the panel features authors Stephen Kelman, Joshua Knelman, Timothy Taylor and Andrew Westoll, moderated by Bert Archer.

Stephen Kelman presents his debut novel Pigeon English, a spellbinding portrayal of a Ghanaian boy in London balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he lives.

After immersing himself in the mysterious world of international art theft for four years, Joshua Knelman presents Hot Art, a fast-paced true-crime story exploring the seedy-underbelly he became so familiar with.

Timothy Taylor’s latest novel, The Blue Light Project, tracks three days in the life of an unnamed North American city gripped by a hostage taking in a television studio in the center of town.

Andrew Westoll’s The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is the true story of a remarkable family of chimpanzees who spent decades as test subjects in a biomedical research lab, and who are now slowly recovering in an animal sanctuary near Montreal.


Participants

  • Archer, Bert (web)

    Bert Archer - Moderator

    Bert Archer is a columnist for the Toronto Star and a writer for Toronto Standard and Toronto Life. He has reviewed books for various publications in Canada and the United States. His book, The End of Gay, is available in [...]

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  • Stephen Kelman

    Stephen Kelman

    After finishing his degree Stephen Kelman (UK) worked as a warehouse operative, a care worker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Kelman [...]

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  • Joshua Knelman

    Joshua Knelman

    Award-winning arts and investigative journalist and editor, Joshua Knelman (Canada) was a founding member of The Walrus magazine. His writing has appeared in the Walrus, National Post, Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, CBCarts.ca, Toronto Life and Quill & Quire, among [...]

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  • Timothy Taylor

    Timothy Taylor

    Multiple award winner Timothy Taylor (Canada) is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels Stanley Park and Story House and the short fiction collection Silent Cruise. He is presently the Big Ideas columnist for the Globe and Mail’s [...]

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  • Andrew Westoll

    Andrew Westoll

    Andrew Westoll (Canada) holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the travel memoir The Riverbones and is also a Gold National Magazine Award winner for works appearing in publications such [...]

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