Our winter term readings start off strong with three amazing women writers in three weeks!
Susan Musgrave -- Thursday, 24 January, 8pm, STJ 3014
Nora Gould -- Thursday, 31 January, 4:30pm, STJ 3014
Anne Michaels -- Wednesday, 6 February, 4:30pm, STJ 3027
With these readings, for the first time, we are featuring creative writing students from St Jerome's as five-minute opening acts. Come and see the visiting writers, and come and encourage our budding local talent!
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| Photo by Bruce Stotsebury |
Susan Musgrave’s latest poetry collection is Origami Dove (M&S, 2011). A new novel, Given, has recently been published (Thistledown) and two books for children (Orca) are on their way too. She has published over twenty-five books and has received awards in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, children’s writing and for her work as an editor. We are very happy to welcome Susan, a former Writer-in-Residence, back to St. Jerome’s for this event.
Opening Act: Eric Wallace
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| Photo by Danielle Schaub |
Nora Gould writes from east central Alberta where she
ranches with her family and volunteers in wildlife rehabilitation with the
Medicine River Wildlife Centre. She graduated from the University of Guelph
with a degree in veterinary medicine. I see my love more clearly from a
distance is her first poetry collection. In 2009 Nora Gould won the Banff
Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award.
Nora Gould comes to us with the generous support
of Brick Books. Thank
you, Brick!
Opening Act: Emilie Gardham
Anne Michaels is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her first novel, Fugitive Pieces (1996),
was not only
nominated for the Giller Prize, but also won the Trillium Prize, the
Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Beatrice and Martin
Fischer Award (the main prize in the Jewish Book Awards), and England's
prestigious Orange Prize. Previous to this success,
she won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas for the collection The Weight of Oranges (1986) and the
Canadian Authors Association Award for Miner's Pond (1991). In 2007, Fugitive Pieces was made into a film.
Her most recent novel is 2009’s The Winter Vault.
Opening Act: Adan Jerreat-Poole
