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35 Dark End of the Street

Sandra Birdsell Saskatchewan	Michael Helm Ontario	Mauricio Segura Québec
Russell Wangersky Newfoundland	Michael Winter Ontario

Sandra Birdsell, Saskatchewan

Sandra Birdsell’s eight books have received critical acclaim, and numerous literary prizes and nominations, including a Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for The Russländer and Governor General’s Award nominations for The Two-Headed Calf and The Chrome Suite. In 1993 she was awarded one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Marion Engel Award, an honour given to a woman writer in mid-career. She was born and raised in Winnipeg, and currently lives in Saskatchewan. Her new novel is Waiting for Joe. Read more

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Michael Helm, Ontario

Michael Helm is the author of The Projectionist, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, In the Place of Last Things, a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and, most recently, Cities of Refuge. His writings on fiction, poetry and photography have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines, including Brick, where he serves as editor. He teaches at York University in Toronto. Read more

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Mauricio Segura, Québec

Mauricio Segura was born in Temuco, Chile in 1969 and immigrated to Quebec with his parents as a child. He studied economics at the Université de Montréal and French literature at McGill University. The author of two novels and a book about French perceptions of Latin America, Segura lives in Montreal where he is a well-known journalist and commentator on immigrant issues. His first novel, Black Alley, has recently been translated into English. Read more

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Russell Wangersky, Newfoundland

Russell Wangersky’s Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself, won three national awards, including the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. His 2006 short story collection The Hour of Bad Decisions was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, first book, Canada and the Caribbean. His new book, his first novel, is The Glass Harmonica. He lives in St. John’s Newfoundland, where he’s a journalist at The Telegram. Read more

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Michael Winter, Ontario

Michael Winter is the author of The Architects Are Here, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and The Big Why, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His first novel, This All Happened, won the Winterset Award. He is also the recipient of The Writers’ Trust Notable Author Award. Winter’s new novel is The Death of Donna Whalen. He divides his time between Toronto and St. John’s. Read more

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Host: Genni Gunn
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 8:00pm
Waterfront Theatre
$19.00

Five authors each shine a light on the events, relationships and communities that exist in the darker parts of our cities and society. From immigrants trying to find their place, to murder on a snowy night, to a couple on the lam in a WalMart parking lot, to assault in a unlit urban corner, these are novels that show readers environments, circumstances and psyches that we might not normally encounter. And isn’t that one of the reasons, after all, that fiction holds such appeal? There’s vibrancy and intrigue outside the circle of the street lamp, and these writers take us to the dark end of our streets.