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Thin Air 2023: the Winnipeg International Writers Festival brings plenty more literary events this coming week.
Tonight at 7 p.m. Darrel J. McLeod will discuss his debut novel A Season in Chezgh’un at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at the Niizhotay Stories event in honour of the late Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine. McLeod will be joined in conversation with Jillian Horton.
On Saturday, Oct. 7, Manitoba-born Casey Plett returns to Winnipeg to talk about the re-release of her debut short-story collection A Safe Girl to Love and her new non-fiction treaties On Community. She’ll be joined in conversation by Shelterbelts author Jonathan Dyck.
Thin Air’s afternoon book chats continue at the Millennium Library’s Carol Shields Auditorium throughout the week, with Michael Afenfia and Kerry Ryan conversing on Tuesday at 2 p.m. and hannah_g and Zoe Whittall taking the stage on Thursday at 2 p.m.
On Tuesday evening, the Speaking Crow virtual open mic series features a reading by Jody Baltessen. For more information or to sign up to watch or read, visit wfp.to/6TB. For more festival goodies see thinairfestival.ca.
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Thin Air events aren’t all that’s happening at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location this week.
The horror anthology What Draws Us Near launches Tuesday at 7 p.m., with co-editors Keith Cadieux and Adam Petrash joined by contributors Susie Moloney and Joanna Graham.
On Wednesday at 7 p.m., Patti Grayson launches her new novel The Twistical Nature of Spoons; she’ll be joined by Winnipeg poet Sarah Ens, who was announced as the winner of the ReLit award for poetry for Flyway on Sept. 29.
Thursday sees Kathryn Mannix talk about two of her non-fiction books at 7 p.m. with psychologist and palliative care scholar Harvey Max Chochinov. Mannix will talk about 2022’s Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations and 2018’s With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial.
Poetry, memoir and stories are on the menu on Friday at 7 p.m., with a four-book launch of titles published by Anvil Press in 2023. Poet Patrick Friesen returns to Winnipeg to talk about his latest collection Reckoning, former Winnipegger (now of Montreal) Sarah Gilbert brings her new story collection Our Lady of Mile End, B.C. author Eve Joseph will discuss the re-release of her 2014 memoir In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying and Alberta-based Annette Lapointe will unpack her poetry collection Swim / into the North’s Blue Eye.
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On Sept. 27 the five finalists were announced for the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, which will be presented at a ceremony on Nov. 21.
Among the five novels on the short list is Manitoba-born, Newfoundland-based Métis author Michelle Porter’s debut A Grandmother Begins the Story. She’s in contention along with Emma Donoghue for Learned By Heart, Amanda Peters for The Berry Pickers, Kai Thomas for In the Upper Country and Thomas Wharton for The Book of Rain.
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The short list for The Cundhill History Prize, administered by McGill University, was also released on Sept. 27, with eight books in contention for the US$75,000 award.
The finalists are: The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, by Alison Bashford; Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, by Tania Branigan; The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets, by Matthew Connelly; The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, by Mackenzie Cooley; Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions, by Kate Coopes; Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in India, by Douglas Ober; Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future, by James Morton Turner; and The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullit, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, by Patrick Weil.
The finalists will be announced Oct. 16, and the winner revealed Nov. 8 in Montreal.
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Winnipeg’s Sally Ito picked up two awards at the 2023 Word Awards, which honours the best Canadian Christian writing from the previous year.
Ito’s poetry collection Heart’s Hydrography, published by Turnstone Press, won best specialty book, and she was the co-winner of the prize for best writer of colour.
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In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press’s editing team before being posted online or published in print. It’s part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
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