Posts Tagged ‘SMU Reading Series’
Raised in rural Saskatchewan and now living in Toronto, Holly Luhning holds a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, madness and theories of the body. She has received a Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award, and her collection of poetry, Sway, was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her first novel, Quiver, is forthcoming in January 2011.
Time: Thursday, January 19th @ 7p
Location: Sobey Building- Saint Mary’s University, Rm 165, 903 Robie St
Admission: Free
About Warren:
Warren Heiti is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Dalhousie University. His research interests include ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, ecological ethics, and lyric philosophy. He has taught sessionally at Dalhousie University and St. Mary’s University, and has facilitated a poetry workshop at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
About Heather:
Heather Jessup’s poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews have been published in journals across Canada and the U.S. including The Malahat Review, The Denver Quarterly, andPRISM International. Her first novel, The Lightning Field, will be published with Gaspereau Press in Fall 2011. She is completing her dissertation on contemporary Canadian literature and visual art in the English Department at the University of Toronto.
Time: Tuesday, December 6th @ 7p
Location: Room 101, The Atrium, 923 Robie St.
Admission: Free
Steven Heighton’s most recent books are the novel Every Lost Country (May 2010) and the poetry collection Patient Frame (April 2010). He is also the author of the novel Afterlands, which appeared in six countries, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was a “best of year” selection in ten publications in Canada, the USA, and the UK. The book has recently been optioned for film. He has also published The Shadow Boxer—a Canadian bestseller and a Publishers’ Weekly Book of the Year for 2002—which appeared in five countries. His other fiction books are the story collections Flight Paths of the Emperor and On earth as it is, while his poetry collections include The Ecstasy of Skeptics and The Address Book.
-From the Author’s site
Time: Tuesday, November 22nd @ 7pm
Location: Sobey Building, Rm 165, Saint Mary’s University
Admission: Free
Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to life with uncanny sensual details and an urgency that makes you realize some fires never really go out. The book’s scope is wide: beautifully crafted family reminiscences; Bach and Beethoven; Raphael and Goltzius; Shakespeare; the Greek Myths and the fate of the Romanovs. Vox Humana is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theatre of the moment at its most alive.
Time: Tuesday, November 8th @ 7p
Location: Sobey Building, Rm 165, Saint Mary’s University
Admission: Free
Antanas Sileika (Antanas Šileika) is a Canadian novelist and critic.
He was born in Weston, Ontario – the son of Lithuanian-born parents.
After completing an English degree at the University of Toronto, he moved to Paris for two years and there married his wife, Snaige Sileika (nee Valiunas), an art student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. While in Paris, he studied French, taught English in Versailles, and worked as part of the editorial collective of the expatriate literary journal, Paris Voices, run from the upstairs room of the bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.
Upon his return to Canada in 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian literary journal, Descant, where he remained until 1988.
After writing for newspapers and magazines, Antanas published his first novel, Dinner at the End of the World (1994), a speculative story set in the aftermath of global warming.
His second book, a collection of linked short stories, Buying On Time (1997), was nominated for both the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and was serialized on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. The book traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies. Some of these stories were anthologized in Dreaming Home, Canadian Short Stories, and the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour.
Antanas Sileika has worked frequently as a reviewer of books for radio, television, and print.
His third book, Woman in Bronze (2004), compared the seasonal life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his subsequent attempts to succeed as a prominent sculptor in Paris in the twenties. The novel was a Globe Best Book of that year.
He is the artistic director for the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, and is a past winner of a National Magazine Award.
His new novel, Underground, appeared from Thomas Allen & Son in 2011. The story is set in the underground resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940′s.
Time: Wednesday, October 26th @ 7pm
Location: Sobey Building, SMU, Rm 165, 903 Robie St.
Admission: Free
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John’s Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing.
En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off to a quick start. His first book, The Story of Bobby O’Malley, published when he was just 27 years old, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award for the best first novel published in the English language in Canada in that year. Subsequent books consistently received critical praise and increasing public attention. The Divine Ryans was adapted to the silver screen in a production starring Academy Award winner Pete Postlethwaite – Wayne wrote the screenplay. Baltimore’s Mansion, a memoire dealing with his grandfather, his father and Wayne himself was tremendously well received and won the most prestigious prize for creative non-fiction awarded in Canada – the Charles Taylor Prize. Both The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York spent extended periods of time on bestseller lists in Canada and have also been published in the US, Britain, Germany, Holland, China and Spain. Colonywas identified by the Globe and Mail newspaper as one of the 100 most important Canadian books ever produced (including both fiction and non-fiction).
-From the Author’s Website
Time: Wednesday, September 28th @ 7p
Location: Sobey Building, Saint Mary’s University, Rm 165
Admission: Free