Come and hear the author of
February this February at St Jerome's! We're excited to welcome this bestselling novelist, a tremendous addition to our Literartistry series.
Lisa Moore reads Wednesday 26 February at 8pm in Siegfried Hall.
The opening act will be Justine Alkema.
Then March will come in like a lion for us with the dynamic rob mclennan, poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, publisher, editor, reviewer...
rob mclennan reads Wednesday 5 March, 4:30pm, STJ 2011.
The opening act will be Elizabeth Bate.
More about the authors:
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http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot.ca/
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Lisa Moore is a three-time Giller Prize nominee, for her novels
Open,
Alligator and
Caught. Her novel
February was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the CBC Canada Reads competition in 2013. Last Fall she received the Writers' Trust Findlay / Engel Prize. She has done animation work, written for television and radio, and has also written art criticism.
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| photo credit: Christine McNair |
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2011, and his most recent titles are the poetry collections
Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012),
grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012),
A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011),
Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and
kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel,
missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (
ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (
ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (
ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at
robmclennan.blogspot.com
