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Eleanor Catton New Zealand	Genni Gunn British Columbia	Michael Helm Ontario
Kathy Page British Columbia	Adam Lewis Schroeder British Columbia	Mauricio Segura Québec
Marisa Silver United States

Eleanor Catton, New Zealand

Eleanor Catton was born in London, Ontario and grew up in Canterbury, New Zealand. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Wellington’s Victoria University in 2007 and dazzled critics with her award-winning first novel, The Rehearsal. She has been hailed in the British press as the “golden girl of fiction” and “a starburst of talent.” She is currently at work on a second novel.

Eleanor Catton’s appearance is made possible by Creative New Zealand. Read more

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Genni Gunn, British Columbia

Genni Gunn is a writer, musician and translator. Her books include two novels, Tracing Iris and Thrice upon a Time; two short story collections, Hungers and On the Road; and two poetry collections, Faceless and Mating in Captivity. Gunn’s works have been finalists for the CBC Literary Awards in all three categories (fiction, personal essay and poetry) and have been nominated for numerous other awards. Her new novel is Solitaria. 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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Kathy Page, British Columbia

Kathy Page was born in the UK and now lives on Salt Spring Island with her husband and two children. Her fifth novel, The Story of My Face, was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002 and her sixth, Alphabet, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 2005. Her new novel is The Find. Read more

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Adam Lewis Schroeder, British Columbia

Adam Lewis Schroeder is the author of the story collection Kingdom of Monkeys, a Danuta Gleed Award finalist, and the novel Empress of Asia, nominated for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. His story, “This Is Not the End My Friend,” appears in Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. His new novel is In the Fabled East. He lives in Penticton. 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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Marisa Silver, United States

Marisa Silver is the author of the novels The God of War and No Direction Home. She made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she appeared in the inaugural Debut Fiction issue. Her collection of stories, Babe in Paradise, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Silver’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her latest collection is Alone With You. She lives in Los Angeles. Read more

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Host: Paul Grant
Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 8:00pm
Waterfront Theatre
$19.00

Settle back this evening to hear seven fine writers read from their new works. There’s more than enough in store tonight to get you fired up on some riveting fiction by authors whose books may not have made it into your hands yet. Let these voices transport you to Italy and Vietnam. Get swept up in an extraordinary adventure to a remote area of British Columbia and thrown into the fray of two street gangs divided by race. Be turned around by the chaos of a high-school sex scandal and flung deep into the turmoil caused by an attack on a dark street. In other words, go places you’ve never been, feel things you’ve never felt, and come out changed.