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September 25, 2008
11:30 am
READING: Steven Galloway and Gerald Hill
Novelist Steven Galloway and poet Gerald Hill consider the challenges of living responsibility and responsively in our contemporary world.
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September 25, 2008
11:00 am
READING: Larry Krotz
Writer, journalist, and acclaimed documentary film-maker, Larry Krotz has been active in many projects in Africa and gathers his challenging observations in The Uncertain Business of Doing Good.
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September 25, 2008
10:00 am
RENCONTRE avec Éric Charlebois
Une rencontre avec un jeune poète franco-ontarien qui renouvelle la forme poétique et son expression publique.
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September 25, 2008
10:00 am
READING/EXHIBIT: Irene Gammel
Irene Gammel is marking the centenary of Anne of Green Gables with a book and exhibit, both entitled Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic.
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September 25, 2008
10:00 am
SCHOOL STAGE: Susin Nielsen and Arthur Slade
The struggle to belong is one of the central stories of childhood. Susin Nielsen’s Word Nerd and Arthur Slade’s Jolted tell that story with rollicking good humour.
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September 24, 2008
8:00 pm
MAINSTAGE: Matches and Misses
Hooking up, falling apart—the process of navigating adult relationships is one of the central preoccupations of contemporary literature. From novelists David Bergen, Nicole Markotić, and Daria Salamon, to short story sensations Pasha Malla and Rebecca Rosenblum, to poet Gerald Hill, tonight’s writers dish up the good, the bad, and the ugly of the mating game.
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September 24, 2008
8:00 pm
L'eau de Vie
Daniel Marchildon a écrit un roman qui vous mettra l’eau (de vie) à la bouche. Il parlera de sa découverte des whiskies écossais et la lecture de son roman « scotch » sera accompagnée d’une dégustation de scotches. Tout cela pour le prix d’entrée.
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September 24, 2008
4:30 pm
DAVID WALTNER-TOEWS: Food-borne Diseases
Noted veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews explores the connections between people, foods, and disease in his hard-hitting and eminently readable Food, Sex, and Salmonella.
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September 24, 2008
2:30 pm
AFTERNOON BOOK CHAT: Pasha Malla and Rebecca Rosenblum
Curious about who's coming up? Pasha Malla and Rebecca Rosenblum are two of the sharpest writers you'll encounter this year.
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September 24, 2008
2:00 pm
TALK: Kerry Ryan
Join Winnipeg poet Kerry Ryan speaking to creative writing students about the writer’s craft and her new collection, The Sleeping Life.
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September 24, 2008
1:30 pm
RURAL TOUR: Lois Braun, Carolyn Gray and Wayne Tefs
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September 24, 2008
1:00 pm
SCÈNE SCOLAIRE: René Ammann et Daniel Marchildon
Les histoires et les poèmes de René Amman plaisent aux jeunes lecteurs aux intérêts divers. Son dernier livre, Les perles dorées, allie l’aventure et la science pour proposer une histoire au rythme rapide située dans l’univers du sirop d’érable au Québec. Dans les livres de Marchildon, on suit des jumeaux, Roxanne et Yannick, dans leurs aventures dans le monde de l’archéologie en Ontario et dans celui de la Ligue nationale de hockey.
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September 24, 2008
12:15 pm
THE NOONER: Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews' The Flying Troutmans has all her signature qualities: speed, depth, poignancy and devastating wit.
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September 24, 2008
11:30 am
READING: David Waltner-Toews
Acclaimed writer—and veterinarian/environmental advocate—David Waltner-Toews reads from his debut mystery novel, Fear of Landing. A Mennonite veterinarian traveling in Bali investigates a dead cow…
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September 24, 2008
11:00 am
READING: Rosanna Deerchild and Andrew Hood
Both Rosanna Deerchild and Andrew Hood offer unflinching and highly-charged versions of lives which are often startlingly familiar.
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September 24, 2008
10:00 am
SCÈNE SCOLAIRE: René Ammann et Daniel Marchildon
Les histoires et les poèmes de René Amman plaisent aux jeunes lecteurs aux intérêts divers. Son dernier livre, Les perles dorées, allie l’aventure et la science pour proposer une histoire au rythme rapide située dans l’univers du sirop d’érable au Québec. Dans les livres de Marchildon, on suit des jumeaux, Roxanne et Yannick, dans leurs aventures dans le monde de l’archéologie en Ontario et dans celui de la Ligue nationale de hockey.
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September 24, 2008
9:30 am
READING: Nicole Markotić and Saleema Nawaz
Both Nicole Markotić and Saleema Nawaz are alumni of the Creative M.A. at U of M and have since gone on to make an impact on the writing world.
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September 23, 2008
8:00 pm
MAINSTAGE: Bloodlines
Writers are often drawn to the complexity of family structures. Maurice Mierau, Mary Swan, and Joan Thomas mine familial and cultural inheritances in their new work. Andrew Hood, Saleema Nawaz, and Miriam Toews unpack the up-close-and-personal of family experience. What we inherit from our parents and grandparents, what we bequeath to future generations—this is rich territory.
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September 23, 2008
7:30 pm
RURAL TOUR: Lois Braun, Roland Penner and David Waltner-Toews
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September 23, 2008
2:30 pm
AFTERNOON BOOK CHAT: David Bergen and Mary Swan
David Bergen and Mary Swan are master stylists who capture the subtle nuances of the most ordinary gestures.
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September 23, 2008
1:00 pm
SCHOOL STAGE: Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel, masterful writer and brilliant inventor of fantasy worlds, introduces his newest work, Starclimber. This writing will grab even the most reluctant reader!
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September 23, 2008
12:15 pm
THE NOONER: Joan Thomas
Joan Thomas takes us from parched prairies to England preparing for the Second World War in her debut novel, Reading by Lightning.
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September 23, 2008
11:00 am
READING: Daria Salamon and Duncan Thornton
Daria Salamon and Duncan Thornton are both great story-tellers—one takes you into the hyper-reality of relationship struggles, the other into a magical reality of fantasy worlds.
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