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64 Short Stories, Varied Voices

Ivan E. Coyote British Columbia	Billie Livingston British Columbia	Sarah Selecky Ontario
Terence Young British Columbia

Ivan E. Coyote, British Columbia

Ivan E. Coyote is a writer and performer whose books include the story collections Close to Spider Man (shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize), One Man's Trash, Loose End (shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Women's Fiction Award) and The Slow Fix. Her novel, Bow Grip, won the 2007 ReLit Award. Ivan was also a founding member of the performance collective Taste This. She is a long-time columnist for Xtra! in Toronto and Xtra! West in Vancouver. Read more

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Billie Livingston, British Columbia

Billie Livingston published her critically acclaimed first novel, Going Down Swinging, in 2000 and has since been published internationally. Her second novel, Cease to Blush, was a Globe and Mail Best Book, and her collection of poetry, Chick at the Back of the Church, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is at the Festival this year with a new collection of short stories, Greedy Little Eyes. Read more

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Sarah Selecky, Ontario

Sarah Selecky grew up in Northern Ontario and Southern Indiana. Her stories have been published in The Walrus, Geist, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly and The Journey Prize Anthology. She earned her mfa in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and has been teaching creative writing in her living room for the past 10 years. This Cake Is for the Party is her first book. She currently lives in Toronto. Read more

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Terence Young, British Columbia

Terence Young is the author of four previous books, including The Island in Winter (nominated for the Governor General’s Award for poetry), Rhymes with Useless, After Goodlake’s (Winner of the City of Victoria Butler Best Book Award), and Moving Day. He helped co-found The Claremont Review, a journal for young writers, and lives with poet and fiction writer Patricia Young in Victoria. His new collection of stories is The End of the Ice Age. Read more

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Host: Trevor Carolan
Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 1:30pm
Studio 1398
$17.00

How does a short story come to a writer? “I want to say character, but it’s probably more accurate to say voice,” explains Billie Livingston. “I often write in the first person because I hear a voice first—the narrator rambles or chatters away in my head and I scribble down what she says.” The short story collection allows for many voices to be heard by an author. Each of these four has grappled with beginnings, a more frequent challenge for the short story writer than for the novelist. Enjoy an afternoon of hearing voices—many and varied voices—from masters of the short story genre.

This event is sponsored by the UBC Writing Centre.