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NEW releases by local authors won’t be in short supply in the next coming months.
Among the forthcoming books to watch for:
• No Shelter for the Wicked: An Elspeth Laird Mystery, by Raye Anderson (Signature Editions, Aug. 15), in which Elspeth investigates the death of a teenage girl on a remote Scottish isle where her “prepper” family lived with other like-minded folks.
• With a Name Like Chief: Reflections on Recovery and Identity Through the Seven Sacred Teachings, by Kevin Chief with Stu Slayen (Portage & Main Press, Sept. 1), a memoir by the former MLA detailing difficult early years, his rise as a basketball player and then political player, and his struggles with addictions.
• Silence and Seizure: Parenting Through Complexity, by Christine Stewart-Nuñez (Wilfred Laurier University Press, Sept. 15), who chronicles the struggles of raising a child with a rare form of epilepsy, and how she adapted and became an advocate.
• Metal Mirror, by Owen Toews (ARP Books, Oct. 1), a fiction featuring a newly arrived man and his five-year-old daughter in an industrial city, and the myriad of voices who make up the cultural fabric of the place — described as “taking up elements of socialist fiction and the detective novel.”
• The Funniest Man in Hockey: The Life and Times of Tom McVie, by Geoff Kirbyson (Great Plains Press, Oct. 13), a biography of the coach who won the last Avco Cup with the WHA’s Winnipeg Jets and was behind the bench when the team debuted in the NHL.
• Fulfillment, a novel by Jennifer Isle Black (ARP Books, Nov. 1), a multi-perspective fiction featuring an art-school dropout working at a fulfillment centre, an influencer using AI to lure followers cult-like to “access their destiny in the cosmos” and more.
• We Had Years: Stories, by Russell Wangersky (Biblioasis, Nov. 10), the Free Press comment editor and Giller-shortlisted author’s fourth collection of short fiction.
Think you can throw down some vivid verses on the fly?
The Last Chance Slam, presented by the Winnipeg Poetry Slam (WPS), takes place Tuesday at the Handsome Daughter (61 Sherbrook St.), and is a qualifier for the 2027 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Poetry Slam.
The event will see 12 poets go head to head in for five judges over two rounds, with the top three poets receiving prizes.
The event will feature Governor General’s Literary Award-winning Michif poet katherena vermette (North End Love Songs, Procession). Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event gets underway at 7; admission is $10 in advance at wfp.to/poetryslam, where aspiring slam poets can also sign up for the event.
Cree-Saulteaux author Robert Stanley Adams brings Book of Love, a “collection of spiritual, openly erotic poems,” to Winnipeg on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at an event at romance bookstore Bound to Please (995 McPhillips St.).
Adams, who is in his 70s, is travelling by train across Canada with his daughter and granddaughter in support of Book of Love, which took 20 years to write; the evening will also feature live flamenco music and dance.
Admission is free; to reserve your spot, see wfp.to/iRI.
The next Wild and Wonderful Words reading event at Sookram’s Brewing Co. (479-B Warsaw St.) will look a little different — perhaps a little darker (at least thematically).
Noir at the Bar, which takes place Wednesday at 7 p.m., will see a range of crime/thriller writers take to the microphone — namely M.M. Deluca, Craig Terlson, Offer Kuban and Michael Clark, with guest host Joel Nedecky.
Noir at the Bar is a free, all-ages event.
The titles of the next two Sarah J. Maas titles in the A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series of romantasy books have been revealed.
On social media Maas revealed the next book, which publishes Oct. 27, will be A Court of Splintered Harmony, while the following book is titled A Court of Forgotten Memory and publishes in January 2027.
Splintered Harmony will serve as the first part of Maas’ Valkyrie Cycle series, which continues the ACOTAR story, while Forgotten Memory will bring the next two parts. A third, as-yet-unnamed book in the series will follow.
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Ben Sigurdson
Literary editor, drinks writer
Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press‘s literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben.
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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Ben Sigurdson
Literary editor, drinks writer
Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press‘s literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben.
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.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
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