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<font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Our next two visiting writers are Amanda Leduc & Elisabeth de Mariaffi!</span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Please join us on 19 November at 4:30 pm in STJ 3014 to welcome Amanda Leduc
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">and on 20 November at 4:30 pm in STJ 3027 to welcome Elisabeth de Mariaffi (<i>in collaboration with Wilfred Laurier University English Department</i>).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Amanda Leduc's essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia and been shortlisted for a number of awards, among them the 2014 CBC Canada Writes Fiction and
Non Fiction Contests, the 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, and the 2012 PRISM International Short Fiction Contest. Her novel,
<i>The Miracles of Ordinary Men</i>, was published in 2013 by Toronto's ECW Press and shortlisted for the 2014 ReLit award. She currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she is at work on her next novel.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Check her out at: <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaLeduc" target="_blank">
https://twitter.com/AmandaLeduc</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Opening for Amanda Leduc: Catherine Vendryes.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the Giller Prize-nominated author of one book of short stories,
<i>How To Get Along With Women</i> (Invisible Publishing, 2012) and the new novel,
<i>The Devil You Know</i> (HarperCollins, Canada; Simon & Schuster USA 2015). Her poetry and short fiction have been widely published in magazines across Canada. In 2013, her story “Kiss Me Like I’m the Last Man on Earth” (published in The New Quarterly) was
shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. Elisabeth now makes her home in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where she lives with the poet George Murray, their combined four children and a border collie — making them CanLit’s answer to the Brady Brunch.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Check her out at: <a href="http://elisabethdemariaffi.com/" target="_blank">
http://elisabethdemariaffi.com/</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Opening for Elisabeth de Mariaffi: Erin Taylor.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Please visit us at <a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca" target="_blank">
http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><i><span lang="EN-GB">We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.</span></i></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil<span style="">
</span>a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</span></i></font></p>
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