Amanda Leduc and Elisabeth de Mariaffi read at St Jerome's 19 & 20 Nov

[Tristanne Connolly]

Our next two visiting writers are Amanda Leduc & Elisabeth de Mariaffi!

Please join us on 19 November at 4:30 pm in STJ 3014 to welcome Amanda Leduc
and on 20 November at 4:30 pm in STJ 3027 to welcome Elisabeth de Mariaffi (in collaboration with Wilfred Laurier University English Department).

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, The Miracles of Ordinary Men, 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.

Check her out at: https://twitter.com/AmandaLeduc

Opening for Amanda Leduc: Catherine Vendryes.

Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the Giller Prize-nominated author of one book of short stories, How To Get Along With Women (Invisible Publishing, 2012) and the new novel, The Devil You Know (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.

Check her out at: http://elisabethdemariaffi.com/

Opening for Elisabeth de Mariaffi: Erin Taylor.


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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.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil  a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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