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65 The Afternoon Tea

Jenn Farrell BC	Paul Harding United States	Sarah Selecky Ontario
Ali Smith United Kingdom	Drew Hayden Taylor Ontario	Joan Thomas Manitoba

Jenn Farrell, BC

Jenn Farrell is an award-winning writer, editor, and creative writing instructor. Her stories have previously appeared in Prism and subTerrain magazines, and her collection of short fiction, Sugar Bush & Other Stories, was released in 2006. The Devil You Know is her second collection of stories. Read more

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Paul Harding, United States

Paul Harding has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. He spent most of the 1990s as the drummer for the band Cold Water Flat before turning to writing. He lives near Boston with his wife and two sons. Tinkers, his first novel, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction — a rare accomplishment for a debut novelist. 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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Ali Smith, United Kingdom

Ali Smith is the author of Hotel World, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002. Her novel The Accidental won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her story collections include Free Love, The Whole Story and Other Stories and The First Person and Other Stories. Read more

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Drew Hayden Taylor, Ontario

Drew Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, has had over 70 of his award-winning plays produced. He has also written fiction, articles, and television scripts, as well as The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel, a novel for teens novel about an Ojibway vampire. In addition, he has published two successful non-fiction books, Me Sexy, which explores Native sexuality, and Me Funny, which looks at Native humour. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass is his first novel for adults. Read more

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Joan Thomas, Manitoba

Joan Thomas’ debut novel, Reading By Lightning, won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Joan has worked as a teacher, group-home worker, editor, and as the Writing and Publishing consultant at the Manitoba Arts Council. She was a books columnist and longtime contributing reviewer for the Globe and Mail, and in 1996 won a National Magazine Award (Silver) for Creative Non-Fiction. Thomas’s second novel, Curiosity, was published in March of this year. Read more

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Host: Paul Grant
Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 3:30pm
Performance Works
$33.00

What could be more pleasant and relaxing than joining host Paul Grant for a thought-provoking afternoon of tea and tales from a diverse selection of Festival authors? This event is freshly baked to warm your senses and stimulate your soul.

* Programming details have changed since the Festival Program was printed:
We regret that Ken Finkleman will not be appearing at this event.