December 13, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join us for a reading and celebration of Touch Anywhere to Begin with local author Mark Anthony Jarman.
At Broken Record Bar and Music Room, 7:30 pm, Tuesday, December 13th.
Join us for a reading and celebration of Touch Anywhere to Begin with local author Mark Anthony Jarman.
At Broken Record Bar and Music Room, 7:30 pm, Tuesday, December 13th.
Icarus, Falling of Birds. A conversation and reading presented by UNB English, UNB French, and the UNB Arts Centre in partnership with Westminster Books and Goose Lane Editions.
Harry Thurston, Thaddeus Holownia, and Sonya Malaborza. Sunday, December 11, 2022, at 3:30pm, Westminster Books, 88 York St., Fredericton.
We invite you to attend ICARUS, FALLING OF BIRDS: A Conversation & Reading, presented by UNB English, UNB French, & the UNB Arts Centre in partnership with Westminster Books & Goose Lane Editions, featuring Harry Thurston, Thaddeus Holownia & Sonya Malaborza.
In September of 2013, thousands of migratory songbirds perished after being lured like moths to a hundred-foot-high flare at the Canaport Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Saint John, NB. Photographer Thaddeus Holownia and poet Harry Thurston memorialize the fateful event in Icarus, Falling of Birds & Icare, chute d’oiseaux, translated by Sonya Malaborza. Photographer, poet, and translator will discuss their collaborative process and the importance of addressing the climate crisis through art. Their conversation will be followed by a bilingual reading.
HARRY THURSTON is a poet, award-winning journalist, and author of more than two dozen books of poetry and non-fiction. He is a mentor in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program at University of King’s College, Halifax.
THADDEUS HOLOWNIA is emeritus professor of fine arts at Mount Allison University. His photographs have been exhibited and collected at museums throughout North America and Europe.
Since venturing into the field of literary translation some twenty years ago, SONYA MALABORZA has translated several contemporary poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists into French. Translations to her credit include Ami McKay’s The Birth House (L’accoucheuse de Scots Bay), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award.
The AX Literary Series is pleased to present acclaimed Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet, David Adams Richards, who will read from his latest book, The Tragedy Of Eva Mott, on Saturday, December 17 at 2:00 p.m at the AX Arts and Culture Centre in Sussex.
The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society – asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific scrutiny, with reports of serious illness linked to the place.
In the shadows of an asbestos mine, the values of a whole community are changing in sinister ways. The story of Eva Mott and the book that bears her name will no doubt haunt readers.
David Adams Richards will be joined by moderator David Creelman, and there will be a book signing as well as a question and answer period following his reading.
Please note: Entry for the reading is free and will be first come, first served. To avoid overcrowding, those who arrive early will receive admission tokens which will allow them to leave and return when doors open at 1:30 p.m. Admission will be granted to those with tokens, and we will begin to distribute tokens when the gallery opens at 11:00 a.m.
There will be a bookseller on hand, and sales and book signings will take place after the event.
Visit our website for more information.
The AX Literary Series is supported, in part, by the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture, the Government of Canada.
Reading and book signing this Saturday, November 12, 202, at 2pm at Westminster Books.
Neil will read from his new book ‘Lanterns on the Nashwaak’ and Jane Tims will share her newest mystery in the Kaye Eliot Series ‘Stained Glass.’
There will be cookies and Q and A. Lots of fun to welcome November.
Join us for a special in-conversation event between bestselling author Ann-Marie MacDonald and Mount Allison University literature professor and researcher Andrea Beverley! Books will be available for purchase from Tidewater Books.
November 12, 2022
1:30 p.m.
Moncton Public Library
Wheelchair accessible
$ 15
Register on the Frye Website or over the phone at (506) 859-4389.
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery. Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte’s brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte’s appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter “as you would my son, had I one.” But when Charlotte and her tutor’s explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte’s passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
Thursday, November 10, 7:00 p.m at the AX Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex. Ann-Marie MacDonald reads from her newest novel, Fayne.
The AX Literary Series, in partnership with the Lorenzo Society, is proud to present award-winning novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald, who will read from her latest book, “Fayne”, on Thursday, November 10, at 7:00 p.m. Ann-Marie will be joined by CBC host and moderator Julia Wright, and there will be a question and answer period following Ann-Marie’s reading.
Ann-Marie MacDonald, best-selling author of “Fall on Your Knees”, “The Way the Crow Flies”, and “Adult Onset”, has won numerous awards in her capacity as a novelist, playwright, actor, and television presenter. We hope you will join us in Sussex for this unique opportunity to gain insight into MacDonald’s perspectives and insights as she discusses her work with CBC host Julia Wright.
Please note: Entry for Ann-Marie MacDonald’s reading is free and will be first-come, first served. To avoid overcrowding, those who arrive early will receive admission tokens which will allow them to leave and return when doors open at 6:45 p.m. Admission will be granted to those with tokens.
There will be a bookseller on hand, and sales and book signings will take place after the event.
Find more information on our website which is linked in our bio.
Saint John, we have such an exciting event coming up on Wednesday, November 9th at 12:30pm.
Reading from her first novel in 8 years, best-selling novelist, playwrite, actor, and television presenter Ann-Marie MacDonald will be joining us at the Saint John Free Public Library, Central Branch. The event will be hosted by UNBSJ’s own Dr. Gemma Marr.
Based in Montreal and Toronto, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s work covers many capacities and has been honored with multiple awards. “Fayne” has been described as a tale of science, magyk, love, and identity, and the Lorenzo Society is thrilled to welcome Ann-Marie in presenting her latest release.
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Join The Fiddlehead, in partnership with Word Feast, as we launch the Autumn issue with readings from Jenny Hwang, Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Prize winner Tolu Oloruntoba, CBC Short Story Prize winner Corinna Chong and Fawn Parker, who has been longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The event will take place in the Milham Room (Room 100) of UNB’s Harriet Irving Library and on Zoom for those who can’t attend in-person. An ASL interpreter will be present and coffee, tea and light snacks will be provided. As per UNB policy facemasks are mandatory when not eating.
The event is free to all. To attend virtually, please register by emailing thefiddlehead@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. When registering please provide your name and whether or not you require ASL services. If attending in person, registration is not necessary.
This event is funded by the Canada Council‘s Reopening Fund.
PhD student Amber McMillan will be launching her new poetry collection THIS IS A STICKUP on October 6th. All are welcome to attend this exciting event with poetry readings, giveaways, and a cash bar.
Celebrate the launch of Amber McMillan’s new collection This Is a Stickup! This launch party will feature readings from Amber and Fredericton poets Sue Sinclair, Triny Finlay, Emily Skov-Nielsen, Mary Germaine, and Meghan Kemp-Gee. Books will be available for purchase from Westminster Books. Join us at 7pm in the CSAC Auditorium!
This event is free to attend, and registration is encouraged:
This Is a Stickup is a heart-stopping second collection of poetry from Amber McMillan. In fierce, lonely and elegant lines McMillan writes of violence, of the sea and of love. Fish and sparrows crowd in the edges of these poems where grandfathers are lost at sea and friends are lost along the way. A strange man peers in her window and flames consume swing sets, while McMillan unravels some of the deep griefs of the world, creating space for the reader to grieve alongside her. Intimate and powerful, these poems are unforgettable.
Reading from Rafael Has Pretty Eyes by Elaine McCluskey
Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. | Ganong Hall Lecture Theatre at UNBSJ.
“You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were perfect.”
The seventeen stories in Elaine McCluskey’s latest collection, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes, follow characters who have reached a four-way stop in life; some are deciding whether to follow the signs or defy them; others find a sinkhole forming beneath their feet.
A former fast-talking, big-bucks radio host now lives as a divorced payday loaner working in a strip mall; a football wide receiver at a small Canadian university works the night shift as a bouncer while recovering from his third concussion; a well-liked city councilor is arrested on a packed bus. As one character puts it, “life is just one extended series of anecdotes strung together until they kill you.”
Set in the Maritimes but transcending regional boundaries, McCluskey’s stories are experimental, sometimes provocative, and often about those living on the margins. Smart, compassionate and unsparing, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes explores the absurdity and interconnectedness of a life adrift.
Elaine McCluskey writes about the people you might find in the corners of life. She has published four short-story collections — Rafael Has Pretty Eyes; Hello, Sweetheart; Valery the Great; and The Watermelon Social — and two novels, Going Fast and The Most Heartless Town in Canada. Her latest collection, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes, was released in March 2022 by Goose Lane Editions. She lives in Dartmouth, N.S. For many years, she spent countless days at paddling regattas and watched both of her children race for Canada. She has worked as a journalist, a book editor, and a university lecturer. She has a BA from Dalhousie and an MA from Western.