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Alexander MacLeod

Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:36:31 +0000

Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He holds degrees from the University of Windsor, the University of Notre Dame and McGill, and currently teaches at Saint Mary’s University. MacLeod presents a reading from his celebrated first collection of stories, Light Lifting, which offers a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies that explore the depths of the psyche. It was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and won the Atlantic Book Award.

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André Alexis

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:30:43 +0000

André Alexis’s internationally acclaimed debut novel, Childhood, was the winner of both the Trillium Book Award and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Alexis is also the author of short stories, a play and a novel for young adults, Ingrid and the Wolf, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. He presents, Fifteen Dogs, a contemporary take on the apologue which offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. Fifteen Dogs is a finalist for the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

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Anne Enright

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:51:03 +0000

Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize and the Irish Fiction Award for her novel The Gathering, which became a longtime national bestseller in Canada. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, and the internationally acclaimed novel The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Enright presents her latest novel, The Green Road, a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.

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Christian Bök

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:14:34 +0000

Christian Bök is a poet, conceptual artist and professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Crystallography, a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and of Eunoia, a bestselling work of experimental literature awarded the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. He has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry, particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters. Bök presents The Xenotext, a scientific and literary study that combines the principles of DNA mutation and poetry.

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Claire Cameron

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:41:40 +0000

Claire Cameron‘s novel, The Bear, tells the story of two young siblings who are left to fend for themselves in the wilderness of Northern Ontario when a black bear attacks their campsite, killing both of their parents. It is a number 1 bestseller in Canada, was long listed for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and will be translated into 5 languages and the film rights are optioned. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, National Post and The Millions. Cameron is presenting on behalf of John Vaillant at IFOA Hamilton.

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Deanna Young

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:14:35 +0000

Deanna Young’s writing has appeared in journals across Canada and in 2013 she received the grand prize in the PRISM international Poetry Contest. She lives in Ottawa where she co-directs the Tree Reading Series. Young presents her third collection of poetry, House Dreams, which was a finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award. House Dreams is a haunting sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman’s life story.

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Dionne Brand

Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:39:00 +0000

Dionne Brand is a poet and novelist. Her latest novel is Love Enough. Her book of poetry, Ossuaries, won the Griffin Poetry Prize, and her literary honours include the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Toronto Book Award and the 2006 Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing. She was Toronto’s third Poet Laureate from 2009 – 2012.

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Dylan Horrocks

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:00:08 +0000

Dylan Horrocks is the author of the award-winning graphic novel Hicksville and the comic book series Pickle and Atlas. Horrocks has also written for DC Comics and Vertigo, including Hunter: The Age of Magic and Batgirl. He presents his latest critically acclaimed graphic novel, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, which explores the pleasures, dangers and moral consequences of fantasy.

Supported by New Zealand Book Council and Creative New Zealand

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Elizabeth Hay

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:20:34 +0000

Elizabeth Hay’s novel, Late Nights on Air, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has been a national bestseller. Her other works include A Student of Weather (finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Ottawa Book Award), Garbo Laughs (winner of the Ottawa Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award) and Small Change (stories). In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Hay presents His Whole Life, which was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It is a captivating and unconventional coming of age story set in mid-1990s Quebec.

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Farzana Doctor

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:00:41 +0000

Farzana Doctor is the author of Stealing Nasreen and Six Metres of Pavement, which won the 2012 Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. She has been listed as one of CBC Books’ Ten Canadian Women Writers You Need to Read Now and is the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Grant. She co-curates the Brockton Writers Series. Doctor presents All Inclusive, a story about a Mexican resort, the ghost of an unknown father and the tragedies we can’t forget.

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