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Four Manitoba writers will read from new or recent works on Tuesday at Gimli’s Aspire Theatre at the launch of the fourth volume in Raye Anderson’s Roxanne Calloway mystery series.
Sing a Song of Summer sees RCMP Sergeant Roxanne Calloway investigating a mysterious death in a wealthy family in cottage country. Anderson’s first novel in the series, And We Shall Have Snow, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada best first novel prize.
Joining Anderson, who lives in the Interlake, will be three other Manitoba writers reading from their 2023 releases: Anita Daher (Peanut Butter and Pandemonium), Kevin Marc Fournier (Brief Life) and Philipp Schott (Six Ostriches).
The free event, sponsored by Gimli institution Tergesen’s, starts at 7 p.m.
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Winnipeg-raised-and-educated fantasy novelist Guy Gavriel Kay visits McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location Tuesday at 7 p.m. to discuss his new novel, All the Seas of the World (Penguin Canada).
Kay is known for works of fantasy set in worlds inspired by medieval France, Renaissance Italy and other historical times and places.
In the new novel, his 15th, he returns to the Renaissance-inspired world of his previous books A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky.
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A new grant offered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada will help poets of modest means to create new work.
The DC Reid Poets’ Grant, established by a B.C. author of eight books of poetry, five books on fly-fishing and books of fiction and literary non-fiction, is intended to support poets with an income less than $30,000 per year.
In its first year, it will support eight poets. The deadline to apply is Aug. 2. For more information, see wfp.to/NOZ.
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After becoming the first graphic novel to win CBC’s Canada Reads competition, Kate Beaton’s illustrated memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) is among the Canadian titles shortlisted for the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, which will be given out at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.
Beaton is nominated in the graphic memoir and writer/artist categories.
Nominees in this year’s 32 categories include 150 titles from more than 50 publishers, with six Canadians in the running.
Other Canadians up for the awards are Chip Zdarsky, nominated in the writer and continuing series categories for his works on Daredevil, and in the new series category for Public Domain; Charlotte Schallié, nominated in the reality-based work category for But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust; Margaret Atwood, with David Mack, in the short story category for Silent All These Years, published in Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes; Johnnie Christmas, nominated in the best publication for kids (9–12) category for Swim Team; and Geneviève Castrée, nominated in the best graphic album — reprint category for Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works, translated by Phil Elverum and Aleshia Jensen.
Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly has six works nominated in the annual awards for creative achievement in comics.
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Science fiction writers and artists will gather with fans and several guest scientists next weekend in Winnipeg — and virtually — at Pemmi-Con, the 15th North American Science Fiction Convention.
The convention runs July 20-23 at the Delta Hotel and RBC Convention Centre and will feature gaming, costumes, something called “filk” (a term for music performed at science fiction conventions), and several guests of honour, including novelists Katherena Vermette, Waubgeshig Rice and Tanya Huff as well as renowned paleontologist and science fiction fan Philip Currie. For more information, see pemmi-con.ca.
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Paul and Holly McNally, the retired founders of McNally Robinson Booksellers, were among the literary figures appointed to the Order of Canada in the July 1 announcement of new appointments or promotions within the honorary body.
Other literary appointments this year included Toronto novelist Susan Swan, author and former University of Manitoba history professor Sarah Carter, journalist Charles Gordon, poet and Silyx Okanagan language activist Christine Armstrong and Nova Scotia bookseller/author Sheree Fitch.
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